Coats Digital is pleased to announce that leading global apparel manufacturer, Embee International Industries, has implemented Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution across its operations to eliminate inaccurate costing, streamline production processes, and boost competitiveness in international markets. The move forms a key part of Embee International’s digital transformation strategy to drive greater efficiency, improve quality, and strengthen partnerships with its portfolio of top global brands.

Embee International, a leading Egyptian apparel manufacturer, has adopted Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution to standardise work methods, ensure accurate labour costing, and boost efficiency.
The move eliminates manual costing errors, enhances production visibility, and supports its digital transformation to strengthen global competitiveness.

Headquartered in Ismailia, Egypt, with additional facilities in Suez, Port Said, and Alexandria, Embee International employs more than 12,000 people.  The company operates 4,800 sewing machines across 134 sewing lines and produces approximately four million units per month. Its diverse product range includes outer jackets, trousers, chinos, denim pants, shorts, leggings, underwear, tees, polos, shirts, and soft-shell jackets.

As a trusted supplier to brands such as Decathlon, Fruit of the Loom, LC Waikiki, Walmart, Calvin Klein, Skechers, Lee Wrangler, New Yorkers, and Defacto, Embee International is committed to operational excellence, ethical manufacturing, and sustainable growth.

Prior to adopting GSDCost, Embee International relied on manual time studies using stopwatches and inconsistent measurement methods. This led to inaccurate Standard Minute Values (SMVs), incorrect costings, unrealistic production targets, lengthy negotiations with buyers, and inefficient line balancing. It also faced high production costs due to non-standardised work methods, inconsistent quality from variations in operator techniques, frequent bottlenecks and missed delivery deadlines caused by poor production visibility.

Sherwin Ricky Jonas, Head-Industrial Engineering & CI said: “GSDCost delivers a clear, data-driven view of our production processes, allowing us to measure performance accurately, standardise work methods, and optimise resource utilisation. By enhancing workforce efficiency while upholding quality and compliance standards, it fosters seamless interdepartmental coordination, streamlines operations, and drives continuous improvement through informed decision-making.”

With GSDCost, Embee International can now produce precise, data-backed labour costings that improve buyer negotiations and optimise operator methods to reduce SMVs and increase efficiency. The company is building a robust digital SMV library to accelerate new style costing and planning while improving production visibility and line balancing. This transformation is enabling Embee International to create a more agile, scalable operation capable of meeting the fast-paced demands of the global apparel market and supporting long-term growth.

Diaa Hasham, Digital Manager, Sales, Coats Digital, added: “Embee International is a leading force in global apparel manufacturing, and we are thrilled that such a prestigious company has chosen Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution to drive its digital transformation. By optimising production processes through proven, scientific methods, Embee International is strengthening the resilience and efficiency of its operations. In a market where brands demand closer collaboration with fully digitised supply chain partners, GSDCost provides a common language for manufacturers and brands alike, helping to meet cost, quality, and delivery targets while promoting sustainable and ethical practices. We look forward to supporting Embee International throughout its digital transformation journey, so it continues to benefit from improved efficiencies, enhanced profitability, and a stronger position in the global apparel industry.”

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A research team has developed an extrapolation-based Doppler resolution enhancement algorithm for frequency modulated continuous wave radars. The algorithm improves system performance, offering an advancement that is superior to existing ultra-high-resolution technologies.

The findings are published in the Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology. The team was led by Sang-dong Kim and Bong-seok Kim, affiliated with the DGIST Division of Mobility Technology, in collaboration with a team led by Professor Youngdoo Choi, affiliated with the Republic of Korea Naval Academy (ROKNA).

Improving radar accuracy without extra hardware

This research introduces a technology that improves radar detection accuracy without the need for additional complex computations or hardware. The technology is expected to contribute to enhancing radar system performance on various intelligent unmanned platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ships, and autonomous vehicles.

Conventional radar systems analyze the Doppler effect to determine the velocity of a target, but the fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based approach has limitations regarding resolution (i.e., the accuracy of velocity discrimination). To address this, the joint DGIST–ROKNA research team applied a signal extrapolation technique and has proposed a new algorithm that enhances Doppler resolution without extending observation time.

Performance gains and real-world applications

The proposed method successfully reduces the root mean square error of velocity estimation by up to 33% and decreases the target miss rate by up to 68%, representing a substantial improvement over the conventional approach. Notably, the proposed method maintains the same computational complexity level as the conventional FFT method, thereby simultaneously achieving fast processing speed and high efficiency.

This technology can effectively solve the problem of signal overlap between targets moving at similar velocities, particularly when UAVs or radar systems detect multiple objects simultaneously. It can therefore greatly enhance the ability to distinguish closely spaced targets and improve detection accuracy, marking a new milestone in the advancement of high-resolution target detection technology.

Additionally, the technology is highly regarded for its industrial applicability because it requires no additional hardware resources and features a simple computational structure that enables real-time implementation.

Sang-dong Kim, principal researcher at the Division of Mobility Technology (concurrently serving the interdisciplinary engineering major), said, “This study demonstrates an improvement in both the efficiency and precision of radar signal processing, enabling more accurate target detection without the need for additional equipment. It is expected to evolve into a key technology for defense, autonomous driving, and unmanned systems.”

Concrete 3D printing reduces both time and cost by eliminating traditional formwork, the temporary mold for casting. Yet most of today’s systems rely on extrusion-based methods, which deposit material very close to a nozzle layer by layer. This makes it impossible to print around reinforcement bars (rebars) without risk of collision, limiting both design flexibility and structural integrity of builds.

Kenji Shimada and researchers in his Carnegie Mellon University’s Computational Engineering and Robotics Laboratory (CERLAB), are breaking through that limitation with a new simulation tool for spray-based concrete 3D printing.

“Spray-based concrete 3D printing is a new process with complicated physical phenomena,” said Shimada, a professor of mechanical engineering. “In this method, a modified shotcrete mixture is sprayed from a nozzle to build up on a surface, even around rebar.”

The ability to print freely around reinforcement is especially important in places like Japan and California, where earthquakes are an imminent threat and structural strength is critical.

“To make this technology viable, we must be able to predict exactly how the concrete will spray and dry into the final shape,” Shimada explained. “That’s why we developed a simulator for concrete spray 3D printing.”

The new simulator can model the viscoelastic behaviors of shotcrete mixtures, including drip, particle rebound, spread, and solidification time. This way, contractors can assess multiple printing paths based on a CAD design with the simulator to evaluate whether spray 3D printing is a feasible fabrication technique for their structure.

The team traveled to Tokyo, Japan, where Shimizu Corporation already operates spray 3D printing robots to validate their model. In the first test, the team focused on the simulator’s ability to predict shape based on the speed of the nozzle’s movement. With 90.75% accuracy, the simulator could predict the height of the sprayed concrete. The second test showed that the simulator could predict printing over rebar with 92.3% and 97.9% accuracy for width and thickness, respectively.

According to Soji Yamakawa, a research scientist in Shimada’s lab and the lead author of the team’s research paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, a simulation of this kind would typically take hours, if not days, to run.

“By making wild assumptions, we were able to successfully simplify a super complex physics simulation into a combination of efficient algorithms and data structures and still achieved highly realistic output,” Yamakawa said.

Future work will aim to increase accuracy by identifying environmental parameters like humidity, optimizing performance, and adding plastering simulation to create smoother finished products.

“There are still so many applications and technologies that we can develop with robotics,” said Kyshalee Vazquez-Santiago, a co-author of the paper and a mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate leading the Mobile Manipulators research group within CERLAB.

“Even in concrete 3D printing, we are working with an entirely new type of application and approach that has so many advantages but leaves so much room for further development.”