Coats Digital

Coats Digital is the software business of Coats, the industrial thread and trims company, and lists its head office in London. Coats launched the Coats Digital brand in September 2019 to unify software businesses it had acquired: GSD in May 2015, FastReact in June 2016 and ThreadSol in December 2018; the founded year refers to that launch. It serves fashion brands and apparel manufacturers with tools for design and development, costing, sourcing, production planning and shop floor execution, and presents its reach as covering more than 50 countries with localised sites in Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indonesian, Turkish and Korean.

The portfolio is strongest in manufacturing operations. GSDCost standardises garment labour costing based on predetermined motion times, and GSDQuest, an AI module, analyses product images to generate a standardised bill of labour for early costing. FastReactPlan handles production planning and order tracking for factories. GSDRealMotion adds motion analysis for sewing methods. Coats Digital previously marketed VisionPLM, a browser-based PLM for design, materials, supplier capacity and purchase order tracking, but the product is absent from the October 2026 site, so buyers should treat it as no longer actively sold unless the vendor confirms otherwise.

Sustainability appears as a stated focus with dedicated pages for brands and manufacturers, linked mainly to efficiency, method optimisation and reduced waste. Public material does not describe Digital Product Passport, ESPR or PPWR features, nor multi-tier traceability. Coats Digital therefore fits organisations that prioritise accurate costing and production planning between brands and factories, with sustainability data for passports likely sourced from a separate traceability platform.

Coats Digital publishes general sustainability pages, but no Digital Product Passport, ESPR, PPWR or materials compliance functionality is documented as of October 2026.