Coats Digital debuts buying and cutting data system
Apparel manufacturing technology developer Coats Digital, managed by the group behind UK industrial threadmaker Coats, has launched fabric buying and cutting data platform FastReactFabric.
Billed as a streamlined way to develop complex styles and colourways more efficiently, due to real-time fabric utilisation and wastage monitoring, the company suggests its platform can help users forecast buys in a manner that “eliminates" redundant stock. According to its website, FastReactFabric has already been adopted by more than 150 manufacturers from 15 countries.
The technology's Buy service offers computer-aided design software integration, the ability to generate a range of reports and a “360-degree feedback loop” which connects cutting and booking processes to mitigate against deadstock. Meanwhile, the algorithm-based Cut module gives teams “complete control over [the] cutting room by optimising key processes, including the generation of cut and lay plans and allocation of fabric”.
This latter aspect factors in various potential bottlenecks to production by empowering brand and retail partners to transfer fabric lengths between orders, for example, in addition to suggestions for roll ends and an alerts mechanism for when available roll ends can fulfil fabric requirements more economically.
“We believe the cut module of FastReactFabric is the best solution to manage all cutting processes automatically and systematically, which helps our factories to save more fabric, reduce operations lead times and improve both material management and working conditions," commented chief executive at Vietnamese supplier Song Hong Garment, Quang Viet But.
