UNIFORM SERVICING AND RFID
With RFID technology, elaborate and expensive sorting and counting by hand is no longer necessary.
However, it’s important that these systems are robust. Manually tracking uniforms using barcodes or simply counting garments is time consuming and leaves room for human error. It’s easy to forget to update inventory spreadsheets and complete check-in forms. Not to mention keeping on top of these processes ties up staff time which could be used elsewhere in the business. Compared to more efficient and automatic tracking solutions, it is far easier for garments to go missing in a manual system, which leads to unnecessary replacement costs. The waterproof fabric RFID tags are securely sewn into a pocket in the garment.
The uniform RFID tag can withstand temperatures of up to 180 degrees, which means they survive in most fire-fighting conditions as well as during professional cleaning procedures.
Any commercial laundry that has ever serviced a uniform supplier knows the difficulties involved in laundering and tracking each and every item in a large uniform order. For this reason, RFID is being used for uniform servicing as well, enabling accurate, item-level inventory control while keeping manual labor costs contained.
The ability to provide reliable inventory status updates delivers considerable benefit to uniform suppliers, helping to reduce shrink and optimize lifecycle management of garments. And considering the size of many uniform orders, the enhanced visibility enabled by RFID also helps commercial laundries to improve storage efficiency and billing accuracy for greater profitability
RFID tags, which can be sewn onto linens, allow items to be easily counted and monitored as they are received and returned by the laundry. In addition, a personnel can use handheld scanners to find linens in waste bags or stored in cupboards, enabling them to detect inappropriate disposal and identify where losses are occurring.
Our unique RFID textile identification Platform enables companies to:
- Maintain accurate inventory amounts
- Identify current location or status in the laundry cycle
- Track the number of cleanings and uses to date
- Easily sort and assign delivery
- Increase productivity and reduce labor costs
- Identify repairs, reducing late pieces
- Increase sortation rate per operator hour
Track each asset for its entire life cycle
Labour can be further reduced by permanently installing passive RFID readers in key locations to track linen movement or monitor problem areas. These fixed readers capture data in real-time without human intervention which leads to enhanced operational insight from the collected data. Using RFID to proactively monitor a high-risk area is a proven way of increasing patient and staff safety.
The RFID tags used for tracking must withstand the rigors of sanitizing linens and uniforms to prevent infections. This simplifies that only the most durable RFID tags can be used. The use of RFID technology to track items through the commercial laundry process vastly improves inventory management, reducing loss and enabling real-time asset visibility.
Moreover, linen retirement tracking is improved as well with RFID. Some of the sturdier RFID tracking solutions will last for up to 200 laundry cycles, withstanding harsh conditions in commercial washing and drying. This allows more effective rag-out detection and linen replacement management, ensuring that linens are retired when they can no longer be used.
Improves Textile workflow with RFID Tracking
Save time and labor through automation
Gain real-time visibility and eliminate loss
Benefits
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