RFID technology makes laundry control safer

The laundry industry has been exploring intelligent management and control information, gradually evolving from tag barcodes, QR codes, and RFID. Through the application of RFID technology, very high efficiency has been achieved in the management and control of large-volume laundry operations. Currently, the commercial laundry industry has a large amount of laundry to control, so it is imperative to establish an information collection platform. At present, RFID technology has been widely used in the collection, disinfection, industrial washing, sorting and distribution of clothing and textiles in hotels, Hospitals, factory uniforms and other control links. RFID can quickly complete the inventory and storage of laundry products. RFID technology helps realize intelligent management, greatly improves work efficiency and reduces error rates to a large extent. RFID technology makes laundry control safer.

By RFID electronic tags, which are usually sewn onto clothing, relevant information will be read every time the clothing passes through a processing stage, thereby managing the entire process of uniforms and clothing passing through the laundry equipment. RFID reading and writing equipment needs to be placed at the receiving, sorting, cleaning, drying, ironing, folding, sorting, shipping and distribution locations. The labels must be resistant to the chemicals used in the cleaning process, as well as the high temperatures during washing, drying and ironing.

For medical institutions, on the one hand, the disinfection experienced by ordinary dirty fabrics includes chemical disinfection and moist heat disinfection during the washing process, as well as dry heat disinfection during the drying process. Several rounds of chemical and physical disinfection can ensure the cleanliness of the fabrics. degree. For heavily contaminated fabrics, even infectious fabrics, the disinfection method is even more stringent. Both the amount of disinfectant and the temperature of washing and drying are strictly controlled to ensure the quality of disinfection. On the other hand, large-scale medical laundry companies have achieved the greatest degree of mechanical automation so far for medical fabrics from sorting, washing, disinfection to drying, folding, and packaging to avoid cross-infection of dirty fabrics to people and at the same time avoid People cause secondary pollution to clean fabrics.

How do RFID tags manage laundry? The workflow of RFID tags managing laundry:

1. Register clothing information: First, register the clothing information, such as number, name, type, department, owner, etc., to prepare for coding.

2. Print and fix the label: Write the registered clothing information into the chip of the washable label, print the relevant information on the label, and fix the label to the clothing;

3. Distribute clothes: The clothes and RFID tags have been bound, use RFID Readers or scanners to take inventory, generate reports, and distribute the clothes to relevant personnel for use.

4. Classification and storage of dirty clothes: After the clothes are dirty, they need to be washed. Collect the clothes and read the tags on the clothes through a fixed RFID reader or scanner. The RFID management system will automatically record and Store them. Time, data, operator and other information, and automatically print out the warehousing voucher.

5. Classification and delivery of clean clothes: After the clothes are washed and dried, they are classified through RFID wash tags, then taken out of the warehouse and transported to the corresponding use department.

How RFID tags manage laundry and the advantages:

1. Automatically generate statistical reports: read through RFID readers or scanners, and automatically generate analysis reports. Data can also be exported as needed, allowing scientific management of laundry.

2. History record query: As long as the scan is performed, the system can automatically record the information of the RFID washable tag, which can be searched at any time.

At present, especially for medically soiled fabrics, the manual collection and sorting process is more stringent and cumbersome. There will be flying dust or aerosols that spread potentially infectious germs. This has a certain impact on public places in hospitals (including outpatient and emergency departments). , wards of various departments, etc.) causing air pollution, occupational exposure and cross-infection risks for fabric collection personnel. RFID technology can realize non-contact collection of dirty fabrics. Automatic identification and collection can tell which department, which ward and which category the medical fabrics come from.

Based on RFID technology, the data of each operation link such as linen delivery and washing, handover, warehouse entry and exit, automatic sorting, inventory counting, etc. are automatically collected, and the collected data is uploaded to the backend system in real time through RFID, so as to grasp the status of each link in real time. status information and perform real-time statistics. Realize the visualization of the entire washing management process and provide real-time data support for the scientific management of the enterprise. It realizes laundry automation, digitization, standardization and visualization. Let each piece of clothing have its own unique 'identity card' - RFID electronic tag.