As referenced in Textile Services’ August 2023 article “Flatwork Tagging Coming of Age” (pg. 18), the first wave of laundry operators to implement radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled operations have experienced significant cost reductions and efficiencies. Specifically, these include significant savings on textile ordering, recovery of missing rental goods, fewer return trips by route service reps (RSRs) and less staff time related to shortages.”

However, converting a laundry to RFID-enabled operations is a major undertaking. Strategies are critical to addressing new processes in software/route-accounting systems and laundry operations, sourcing of hardware, tags and inventory conversion. Assigning inventory to clients ...