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Taking Charge of Wash Quality
By Rich Fitzmorris — Many times if you ask who is responsible for wash quality, owners, GM’s, production managers, department heads and team members will answer – the chemical company. Although chemical companies supply chemistry, ...
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Measuring Operational Performance Through Metrics
By Joe Gudenburr, President, G.A. Braun Inc. — Business metrics, or a quantifiable measure that tracks, monitors and assesses the success or failure of business processes are an invaluable tool to any facility. However, with ...
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Managing Irate Customers or Employees
By Joe Curcillo — As a manager, chances are you’ve been faced with this scenario. It could be an angry authoritative customer on the phone with your assistant or an employee waiting outside your door ...
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Winter Is Here So Is Our Nemesis – Static Electricity
By Rich Fitzmorris — The summer months offer relief from the laundry monster ‘static electricity’ because in general, humidity is high enough to combat the charges generated between textiles and a converting source. But winter brings the ...
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Maximizing Delegation Effectiveness
By Eric Bloom One of the great things about being a manager is that you can delegate various types of tasks to other people instead of having to do them yourself. This may sound like ...
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The Beauty of Barriers
By Al Adcock, B&C Technologies — During a hospital stay patients spend most, if not all, of their time in bed surrounded by hospital linens. Patients have more contact with gowns, sheets and blankets than ...
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Building a Laundry (Part 1)
By Hugh Gilmore, PhD, Senior Consultant, Water Energy/Laundry Consulting Bob Beddingfield, Owner, Water Energy/Laundry Consulting Whether you’re building a new laundry from scratch or updating / re-building an existing facility, the project can be rife ...
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Content Team Members = Good Business
By Craig Lloyd, LaundryCareers.com “I have seen the enemy – and it is us.” The quote taken from the Pogo cartoon strip rings true in many areas of our life, and I think of it ...
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Building a Laundry (Part 2)
By Hugh Gilmore, PhD, Senior Consultant, Water Energy/Laundry Consulting Bob Beddingfield, Owner, Water Energy/Laundry Consulting Last week we explored five important points to consider when building a laundry. This week, our authors outline five additional ...
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Four Reasons to Install New Equipment That Puts You in Control (Part 2)
By Bill Brooks, North American sales manager for UniMac® Last week in my article, “Four Reasons to Install New Equipment That Puts You in Control,” I discussed how new equipment can benefit laundries in the ...
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