Moderators to Lead March 4 Dialogue on Processing Upgrades

Whatever your function or title in a linen, uniform and facility services operation, your success depends on plant operations effectiveness. Steady increases in automating machinery and improving textiles’ resilience in large-scale laundry processing aim to enhance quality and efficiency. Has it fulfilled this promise? Is it making your job easier or better?

TRSA Supplier Partner member moderators of the March 4 Production Network Connections virtual roundtable discussion will facilitate information sharing on this subject. These suppliers won’t be presenters – instead, they will prompt you and your industry peers to recount your organizations’ success in previous and current efforts to increase productivity and performance by upgrading systems and merchandise.

Moderators will ensure each type of specialty laundry operation dedicated to a linen and uniform service customer industry is covered:

• Eric Smith, director, sales and marketing, Alliant Systems, Irving, TX: F&B/Restaurant
• Michael Macaro, VP, sales, Mobile Computing, Vaughan, ON: Hospitality/Hotel
• Brian Zamrowski, VP, sales and marketing, Pinnacle Textile, King of Prussia, PA: Healthcare
• Gary Ostrum, regional sales manager, Brim Laundry Machinery, East Amherst, NY: Industrial/Uniform (all other customer industries)

If you’re directly responsible for production practices, your technical skills are critical to laundry performance. If not, your soft skills play a key role. In this roundtable, share experience with and learn from industry colleagues discussing topics you want to air, which may include:

• Completing work with high quality and on-time
• Overcoming impacts of machinery shortcomings and snafus
• Opportunities for performance improvement you see on the horizon

Topics related to both linen and industrial laundries expected to arise include enhanced AI capabilities, robotics, and water and energy conservation, as well as developments in fabrics and chemistry.

Especially for healthcare and hospitality work, you’re likely to hear about laundry operators’ latest successes in tunnel washer operation as well as associated finishing systems: feeders, folders and ironers. These will be relevant to F&B (restaurant) laundries, too, along with technologies for handling small pieces. Improvements to washer-extractors will be of interest to all, especially industrial operators, who will want to hear about developments in RFID-aided garment handling, tunnel finishing and dust-control product processing.

TRSA Connections, formerly known as Virtual Roundtables and Forums, aren’t webinars. They’re on the Zoom platform, so they’re more about connecting with industry colleagues and sharing experience. Participants need not be specialists in the job functions discussed. In this case, it doesn’t matter if you’ve never had a job dedicated to laundry production. If you’ve had any connection to the effective and efficient performance of this function, you will benefit from this exchange.

Click here to register for the Production Connections, set for 1 to 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, March 4. These events are free to members.