RFID Laundry Tag IN Textile Full-Cycle Management Solution For Uniform Management

                                             RFID Laundry Tag Textile Full-Cycle Management Solution For Uniform Management

With the development of the global economy, many hotels, hospitals, baths and related washing companies are facing the process of handling thousands of work clothes, linen washing, ironing, finishing and storage. The development of technology has enabled the market for linen washing labels to be continuously automated and intelligent.

for example in hospital:

1.Uniform Management

Similarly to most hospitals,they has a complex inventory of linens and garments that are used, laundered and reused for patient care. Unlike most of the healthcare facilities in the country, it owns these textiles, and operates an internal laundry to ensure they are laundered, folded and quickly made available for re-use.

Over the years a lack of tight control over the inventory meant laundry services were growing inefficient, and assets were being lost and reordered at a high volume. The hospital brought in a lean management company to boost productivity in the laundry, but it still needed to improve control over the assets flowing through the hospital and laundry.

2.Controlling Uniform Distribution

As each employee picks up a clean uniform at the beginning of their shift, they are uniquely identified with a fingerprint reader. The machine then dispenses the appropriate items, in their size—clean and folded—with a robotic arm in a process that takes less than six seconds. That item is then linked to that individual.

When they complete their shift, hospital staff return the uniform items in a designated unit, and the tags are read, updating the system to indicate they have been returned. If the individual does not return the uniform, they cannot checkout another clean set of garments.

The second step included deploying uniform dispensers in two small hospitals within their healthcare system.

The hospital is now expanding into other parts of its central hospital beyond the surgical department. Today there are dispensers and readers deployed around the facility to identify not only uniforms but sheets or other flat linens as they are moved from one department to another.

Cart readers are used to read the tags of soiled items entering the laundry, and for redistribution of clean items to specific departments. Doorway fixed reader antennas can monitor the hospital exits to identify assets leaving the premises.

3.Reducing Laundry Volumes

When it came to linens, departments were instructed to request a specific number of linens needed for their operations per week. Those assets were delivered to each department, and once used, clean assets replaced them. As the linens move to and from the departments, the tags are read.

The hospital found discrepancies between the number of linens used and laundered, and the linens actually needed for patient care. The result of this practice was excess laundering. In some cases, departments used more linens than needed, and investigation found that staff were using them inappropriately, such as deploying a clean bed sheet to wipe a spill or scrub the floor.

With the RFID system, management was able to make departments accountable for excess use of linens and educate staff on proper use of these assets, said Paiva. As a result, the laundry being process with controls based on the RFID data was reduced by two tons it to 16 tons a week.

4.Preventing Excess Purchasing

The hospital uses the technology to track when items leave the facility, such as in an ambulance. RFID antennas installed at doorways and elevators capture the movement of specific linens and a record is created so that the hospital can ensure it is returned.

When it comes to uniform supplies, the system identified the hoarding behavior of staff. In fact, they found with the help of RFID, a case in which a single employee was hoarding 50 uniforms in his locker.

Now, new garments are being purchased to replace worn items, rather than missing ones.

①.Are the RFID chips be damaged under high temperatures? – Our RFID textile laundry tag are designed to be used at 200 °C.

Q&A

Q1: I’m interested in your products, but now I’m out of China; could you offer you labels to my country?
A1: Sure! We’ve got full exportation experience, and no matter where you are, we may arrange the delivery for you, either by sea, by air or by express, depending on your need.

Q2: How can I get the samples?
A2: We can provide you free sample for our existing products, the lead time is around 1-2 days. You need to pay for the sample delivery cost.
If you need the samples according to your design, the sample cost has to be charged from you. The lead time is around 5 days.

Q3: Is it possible to custom the labels with my own design?
A3: Yes, and you just need send us your drawings or artworks, then you can get what you want.

Q4: What is your MOQ?
A4: For label stickers, the MOQ is 1000 pcs for each design.
For thermal transfer ribbon, the MOQ is 10 rolls for each type and size.

Q5: Do you provide OEM service?
A5: Yes. Actually, we’re already OEM for some brand, and also do the specific packing for them.

Q6: What is your manufacture lead time for our order?
A6: Our normal lead time is 15-20 days. If you have urgent request, please just let us know. We will try our best to shorten the lead time to meet your requirements.

Q7: How can I release the payment to you?
A7: We can receive your payment by Paypal, Western union or Bank Account.