INTEGRATED LAUNDRIES The future is already here
We are truly in to the fourth industrial revolution, as visitors to Texcare 2024 will have witnessed, and integrated systems are the way foward. Marry the right software with highly engineered hardware and the world is yours
ALL TOGETHER: The lesson from Texcare was that machines can and do work together in perfect harmony. From left: Girbau’s Sortech does the dirty work; Biko’s Sara, and other members of her robotic family, fold and pick up the clean stuff afterwards, while; Alsco was obviously impressed with Thielsen’s clever washer extractor as it bought that model off the stand
t Texcare International in Frankfurt last November, if anyone had any lingering confusion about what integrated commercial laundries really are, a visit to the mammoth stands of the market leaders would have made it very clear. At the risk of oversimplifying things, an integrated laundry is a seamless operation from pick up of soiled line from the customer through the whole laundry process, out the other end and back to the customer. That is it on the surface. Underneath and propping it all up is the masterly blending of hardware and the software that maps and plans just about every function and movement in the laundry. Along with utilisation of AI, robotics and digitalisation, this really is the age of the Industrial Revolution version 4. Or Industry.4.0 as we have learned to call it. And it is all made possible because of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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GARMENT HANGING: For material handling, Jensen introduced the new RailExpress, a streamlined software solution for full functional control of basic to moderately complex Futurail systems
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IoT is the label concocted to describe the collective network of connected devices and the technology that enables communication between devices and the cloud, as well as between the devices themselves. The result of all this wizardry is that we now have machines that talk to one another. For example, and in its simplest form, a tunnel washer will tell the press it
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