Tukatech History
Earlier company descriptions, brand line-ups, store counts and photographs from the history of Tukatech, kept for historical reference.
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The Company Description of Its Time
TUKATECH provides state-of-the-art, technology-based solutions throughout the entire development side of the apparel production process. The profile filed here opens with an award: voted the #1 apparel CAD/CAM company in the world by actual customers in Apparel Magazine's 2007-08 Software Scorecard. With headquarters in the U.S. and India and office locations in 15 countries, it described itself as one of the fastest growing CAD/CAM companies in the industry - and its product list, kept in full on this profile's history page, is the period's complete map of digital product development.
Design Cafes, RFID and Cutting Rooms
Two entries in the record show how far the offer reached beyond software. TUKAcenters were an international chain of do-it-yourself 'Design Cafes' in the garment cities of 15 countries, where clients could use professional TUKAcad software, digitizers and plotters by the hour. TUKAtrack was an RFID-based production control system capturing factory events in real time for the people managing the floor. And the company sold the hardware too - TUKA cutters, plotters and spreaders, 'backed up by the top-ranked TUKA support staff.' The address in the filing is 5527 East Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90040.
The company behind the list is Tukatech, Inc., founded in Los Angeles in 1995 by garment industry veteran Ram Sareen, who remains its chairman and chief executive and its public face as the industry's self-described disruptive technologist. It is a private company, still headquartered in Los Angeles, and its current line-up has consolidated around the same spine - TUKAcad for pattern, grading and markers, TUKA3D for virtual fit and design, TUKAcloud, and its spreading and cutting machines - the 2007 catalogue's descendants rather than a different business.
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