Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread manufacturer which has recently received the prestigious Texprocess Innovation Award for its web based colour matching service, Coats Colour Express, has recently introduced yet another innovation in the form of Coats Colour StockMatch. It is a new and proprietary service to effectively manage and utilize excess thread stocks, a long-term problem area in garment manufacturing.
Coats had previously analyzed that a factory with 500 sewing machines will typically have between 40,000 to 60,000 excess thread cones in the warehouse. The excess thread is usually only eliminated by selling to dealers or traders at heavily discounted prices. “Coats Colour StockMatch was developed in response to customer feedback and our own research, which found that typically 15% excess thread is ordered as standard to take into account built-in efficiency factors such as machine operator capabilities, thread breakage and waste,” said Frazer Smith, Chief Commercial Officer, Coats Plc., presenting the new innovation to the industry.
[bleft] Colour StockMatch is a new and proprietary service to effectively manage and utilize excess thread stocks, a long-term problem area in garment manufacturing. [/bleft]
Thread is currently ordered against each finished goods production run, taking into account style, size and colour. As thread has to match fabric, it is difficult to check thread stocks in the warehouse before making fresh orders. Therefore, often a new order is placed even when a ‘close enough’ thread match may already exist in the warehouse. As a result this causes delays in prototype sampling as customers await a new order and exacerbate the excess stock issue.
Coats Colour StockMatch provides a solution to both thread problems. Using the electronic Capsure device which can be preloaded with the customer’s shade cards, the nearest thread match can now be conveniently and accurately identified from existing excess thread stocks. When one matches fabric to the nearest shade in the warehouse, the Coats Colour Capsure device indicates the nearest colour, the level of confidence in the colour match, the quantity of stocks in the warehouse and the brand ticket the user had selected.
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