Case Study: Top Form Brassier Mfg. Co. Ltd. achieves accurate time benchmarking and optimized garment costing with Coats Digital's GSDCost

Top Form International Adopt GSDCost to Benchmark Manufacturing Time and Cost and Optimise Garment Costing Process

Top Form International, a leading intimate apparel manufacturer founded in 1963 with 8,000 employees across China, Thailand and Cambodia, faced unreliable standard minute values (SMVs) and methods that were based on estimates and outdated historical data. Those inaccuracies undermined efficiency calculations, capacity planning, line balancing and garment costing, leading to guesswork in pricing and pressure on profitability.

Top Form implemented Coats Digital’s GSDCost to establish fact‑based standard methods and SMVs using Predetermined Time Standards and motion-code analysis, combined with hands-on software training and shop‑floor application. The solution delivers consistent, auditable time standards across factories, enables accurate garment costing and benchmarking, improves planning and line balance, and helps reduce standard times and boost productivity while reflecting fair labour costs and protecting margins.

Top Form Brassier Mfg. Co. Ltd.

A.P.D. Prabath

Group Head of Industrial Engineering