Maintenance and engineering types are the physicians of laundry operations. With surgical precision, they open machines to adjust and fortify these often sensitive cogs in the wheel of textile services profitability. Like a doctor’s patient, a piece of equipment requires deep probing when it fails, but far less invasive poking and prodding when undergoing procedures simply to foster longevity. Plant-maintenance personnel practice prediction, prevention and repair like clinicians.
 
Medical and laundry docs also share the need for continuing education. TRSA provides the annual Maintenance Management Institute (MMI) with a continuously updated agenda, so that equipment caregivers will ...