At the Alsco Uniforms laundry facility in Raleigh, NC, just above JENSEN spreaders and feeders and just over top of the American Super Sylon ironers and at other locations in the facility, there are monitors—computer screens—that keep track of operator efficiency.

The monitors relay production levels in the finishing department, which is spread across the 43,000-square-foot (3,994-square-meter) plant. With Challenge dryers, American Laundry Machinery ironers, JENSEN feeders, Leonard Automatics stackers, a Leonard steam tunnel, plus Foltex folders/stackers, the plant relies on Spindle tracking software to measure the work-pace statistics of the production employees. In this plant, the software does ...