If you’re looking at how you can move more high-quality rental or customer-owned textiles through your plant, you have to weigh both the tools at your disposal, i.e., equipment and the plant itself, and the staff that are using them on your behalf.

That sums up the views of two consultants, Gerard O’Neill and Doug Story, each of whom have decades of experience in the linen, uniform and facility services industry.

You can begin this process by looking at automation upgrades, such as rail systems, conveyors, tunnel washers, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in textiles, etc. These systems can accelerate ...