Commercial laundries today face a double-edged challenge. Competitive pressures are driving them to reduce labor and production costs, while at the same time ensuring on-time deliveries of high-quality textiles in precise quantities.
 
Industry, company and equipment-production standards can boost laundry efficiency, thereby helping operators master this balancing act. But meeting such standards requires measurement—dialed down by department (washing, finishing, packout, etc.), and individual employees. The data captured by today’s production-monitoring tools make this possible. And taken as a whole, such data allows managers to focus with precision on their entire plant. Yet many laundries underutilize, or neglect ...