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UHF-RFID Textile and Linen Tracking

RFID TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP TO OPTIMIZE LAUNDRY SERVICE MANAGEMENT

SmartX HUB Textile Services is a real-time inventory management solution combining software, RFID tags, equipment, and cloud services to efficiently identify, track and manage linen and textile assets. For institutions that require a constant flow of clean linen, uniforms, workwear, medical garments, or janitorial supplies, Smartx HUB Textile Services enable automated systems to track large volumes of individual items faster and more accurately.

You will know where your laundry is going with the touch of a button

SmartX HUB uses UHF RFID technology to provide your laundry and customers with up-to-date information on the location of your inventory.

Cost-effective real-time track and trace

Thanks to the automation of RFID, inventory information is virtually error-free — and a complete and accurate inventory of items. Business can get improvement by providing real-time customer ordering information, streamlined ordering, and billing processes and have enabled a considerable reduction in staff time.

Solutions Connected to your ERP

Our integrated tracking systems that provide valuable information about the location of your assets, compliance with quality procedures and the data collected can provide vital information for strategic business decisions, such as which assets to invest in.

Best Track and Trace Solution

Obtain rapid and reliable asset counts at every step of your service cycle: receiving, sorting, order preparation, shipping & collect/delivery at customer sites

Linen and Uniform Tracking

Track washable items, reduce loss, and match supply to needs

Simplify bulk handling of laundry items

Laundry tagged with RFID can be identified and tracked by the client in bulk. And, as a hands-free system, it also eliminates the need for staff to touch soiled or dirty items.

Ensure delivery to the correct customer

Because things like linens, towels, and robes, may look alike from one client to another, it can be difficult to ensure that freshly laundered items end up at the right location. Identify the origins of tagged laundry and ensure each client receives the correct linens.

Laundry Textile Tracking

Use SmartX HUB RFID to monitor and locate lost items with pinpoint accuracy and cut costs while reducing staff at every stage of the linen cycle as the textiles move to and from the customers and throughout the laundry facility.

How does Uniform Tracking work?

Improve Your Inventory Operations using RFID

1. TAG ITEMS

RFID (radio frequency identification) is a tracking technology that uses electromagnetic fields to identify data and track specialist tags. These tags contain a microchip with a unique ID, along with a radio antenna

2. RFID READER

Either mobile handheld or fixed readers are used in key locations to track the garments through their wash and use cycles. This could for example be in a dirty store, in goods in or goods out areas from which garments are despatched to a laundry, at the laundry itself and in locations where uniforms are stored to make them available for use

3. DATA COLLECTION

As you collect data, quickly understand the utilization of each item. When inventory is sent out, be able to recognize right away if items are not returned back. While doing inventory, see any variance such as matched, missing, extra or misplaced items

An RFID system can extend linen longevity by 20-30% due to lifecycle records

Laundry tracking with RFID will contribute to significant savings in both labor and linen replacement. Many laundries are turning to UHF-RFID technology to gain better control of their operations and reduce costs. Early installations prove the technology works. UHF-RFID tracking systems save time and money by instantly and accurately identifying and tracking vast numbers of items. These systems process laundry articles infinitely faster and 99 percent more accurately than any other method.

In a nutshell, RFID technology offers the following benefits:

Fewer losses and lower inventory replacement costs
Total control identifies loss points and enables remedial actions
Tag and track customer-owned goods or rental items
Improved labor productivity
Identify repairs, reducing late pieces
Accurate and timely billing
Automated, instant data entry without hand counts, manual tabulations or reporting
Validated deliveries and pick-ups at customer locations
Enhanced customer satisfaction

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Automates Laundry Textile Tracking

Gain real-time visibility over your linen inventory, at the laundry and at customer sites

Industrial Laundry

With a clear vision over your customer linen stocks, you can focus on reducing your total cost of operation and make better business decisions.

Hospitality

Our linen inventory management solution, backed by the experience and innovation we are known for, provides a real-time sight line into your linen availability.

Healthcare

Secure and ease your linen management services so you can better focus on patient care — especially in this era of an ever-more demanding clientele.

CHOOSE THE CORRECT TAG

Tags are a major component of the total cost for the UHF-RFID laundry project. While waterproof UHF-RFID laundry tags from major providers meet international performance standards, they are not created equal. Tags differ in terms of size and appearance, application method, and durability.

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Streamline Your Laundry Processes & Save on Total Cost of Operation

Obtain rapid and reliable linen counts at every step of your laundry cycle: receiving, sorting, order preparation, shipping & collect/delivery at customer sites.

Reduce Time and Cost to Manage Linen and Uniform

> Enable accurate and timely billing
> Improve laundry production planning, reduce shortage situations and anticipate customer requirements
> Save on labor costs related to on-site customer inventories
> Our systems make asset check-in and check-out easy and can be set up to require an electronic signature for additional accountability.

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Dashboards & Reports easy

Enable Real-Time Operational and Business Decisions

The SmartX HUB Platform seamlessly integrates into existing laundry processes and features online reports and interactive dashboards delivering critical information to improve daily business operations including linen flows, clean versus soiled linen usage, dormant stocks and linen losses at the laundry and at customer sites such as hotels and hospitals.

Linen Losses & Save on Linen Purchases

> Gain real-time visibility over your linen inventory, at the laundry and at customer sites
> Accurately track and monitor linen usage and life-cycle durability
> Increase customer linen rotations to reduce your overall inventory capacity and eliminate dormant stocks
> Trace assets back through their entire lifetime and view their movements and usage.

Customer Case

Automated Audit Business Processes

Real-Time Reporting for Linen Managers

As a linen manager, you have access to real-time online reports and interactive dashboards, delivering critical information on linen flows, clean versus soiled linen usage, dormant stocks, and linen losses.

Better control linen going in and out their facility

> Identify areas of inefficiencies by consulting utilization reports to see how often and how long a textile checked out on a particular day or during a certain time period.
> Through greater asset visibility, and through the use of smart alarms, asset security is vastly enhanced.
> Reduce receipt of complex kits from hours to minutes and dramatically reduce subsequent inquiries and disputes relating to Textiles used/billed.
> The integration of data, collected or processed, to any third-party software (ERP, Laundry Management, Warehouse management …).

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TRACK LINENS AND LAUNDRY OPERATIONS

The SmartX HUB platform integrates the latest RFID technology to most efficiently manage industrial laundry operations, and hotel and hospital laundries.

Now Textiles stay in circulation, assets utilization improves, overstocking is reduced and rental and replacement costs are lowered.

Enhance inventory management

Enable uniform companies, hospitality enterprises, launderers, and medical facilities to automatically track clothing, linens, rags and other assets, resulting in more accurate, efficient inventory management and accounting practices. Our solution helps maintain relationships between customers and laundries by improving customer experience with accurate, on-time delivery and real-time data on the location of their textile assets.

Customer Case

Streamline commercial laundry

Since each linen is individually tagged and labeled, sorting by type, or other factors can be done quickly and automatically at different stages in the laundry cycle, saving hours of labor. Inventory counts can be done quickly for single, packaged, or bulk items. It gives companies insight into their linen consumption, helping them predict future needs, while the real-time inventory data helps ensure that they have appropriate inventory.

Hospitality application

Track each asset for its entire life cycle

Whether it’s a bedsheet, uniform, or another textile asset, this solution tracks both the number of uses and the number of cleaning cycles each linen goes through. By tracking each linen’s usage, the Smartx HUB solution helps ensure that every linen is used to its full potential—and that once an item reaches its maximum number of uses, it can be disposed of appropriately.

Healthcare application

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Improve laundry tracking to make it more efficient

The automated RFID laundry tracking platforms can benefits you as following:

Linen and Uniform Visibility

(95% to 100%)

Time for Physical Asset Reconciliation

(70% to 80%)

Inventory visibility and cycle counts

(40% to 65%)

0perations and maintenance costs

(10% to 25%)

Losses of Shrinkage

(5% to 25%)

Reduces Purchases

(2% to 10%)

Lowers Laundry Expenses

(2% to 6%)

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UHF-RFID Textile and Linen Tracking

RFID TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP TO OPTIMIZE LAUNDRY SERVICE MANAGEMENT

You will know where your laundry is going with the touch of a button

Cost-effective real-time track and trace

Solutions Connected to your ERP

Best Track and Trace Solution

Linen and Uniform Tracking

Simplify bulk handling of laundry items

Ensure delivery to the correct customer

Laundry Textile Tracking

How does Uniform Tracking work?

1. TAG ITEMS

2. RFID READER

3. DATA COLLECTION

An RFID system can extend linen longevity by 20-30% due to lifecycle records

Automates Laundry Textile Tracking

CHOOSE THE CORRECT TAG

full lifecycle history

Streamline Your Laundry Processes & Save on Total Cost of Operation

Dashboards & Reports easy

Enable Real-Time Operational and Business Decisions

Automated Audit Business Processes

Real-Time Reporting for Linen Managers

TRACK LINENS AND LAUNDRY OPERATIONS

Enhance inventory management

Streamline commercial laundry

Track each asset for its entire life cycle

Improve laundry tracking to make it more efficient

The automated RFID laundry tracking platforms can benefits you as following:

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