Picture, if you will, the next phase in the automation of commercial laundry equipment. It could come in the soil-sorting area.  
 
As we all know, the hand sorting of soil goods is a difficult, time- and labor-intensive task. On any given day in any healthcare or hospitality plant, you’ll see up to a dozen or more associates standing next to sorting tables or conveyor belts, picking out various textiles (napkins, bar mops, washcloths, patient gowns, etc.) and dropping them into carts or chutes connected to slings that move—once they reach a predetermined weight—by overhead rail to ...