It’s often said that in the laundry business, you can only manage what you can measure. Of course, there are multiple of ways that an operator can pursue this goal, from manually feeding production data into a spreadsheet, to applying IT-based software systems at varying stages of production, ranging from soil sort to finishing and packout. Textile Services recently interviewed several operators to see what’s new in this area.

Jay Addis, safety & production leader for Alsco Uniforms, Salt Lake City, says his company’s approach to tracking textiles features a hybrid system. It includes an in-house software program coupled with ...