Located in Arizona, Milum Textile Services offers linen supply and laundering services for the hospitality industry in the Phoenix area and will be installing The RFID Linen Manager Laundry Version to track their rented linen as well as Customer Owned Goods (COG).

The Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel is using soft rubber RFID tags to manage sheets, uniforms and other laundered assets, reducing labor tracking inventory, lost items and the need for safety stock.

When the new Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel opened last week in Vancouver, B.C., just in time for the Winter Olympics, it had technology in place for tracking 35,000 textile items, including bed sheets, uniforms, towels, tablecloths and bathrobes. The system consists of washable EPC Gen 2 passiveRFID tags from Fujitsu, RFID interrogators provided by Impinj and software from Foundation Logic, a provider of RFID-enabled linen-management solutions. The hotel is employing the system to track more than 8,500 items weekly as they are laundered and … read more

Cost-effective, unobtrusive, reusable RFID tags enable the hotel to accurately track more than 35,000 uniforms and linens while significantly reducing operational costs

Foothill Ranch, CA, February 9, 2010 - Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a leading supplier of innovative computer products including peripherals, biometric security solutions and digital media solutions, today announced that the luxurious new Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is using the new Fujitsu WT-A511 UHF-Band RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags to more accurately manage its inventory of 10,000 employee uniforms and 25,000 bathrobes, towels, tablecloths, sheets and other linens. The advanced tracking system enables the Fairmont Pacific Rim staff to quickly and accurately monitor its outgoing and incoming laundry while significantly reducing the costs of replacing missing items and the operational costs associated with a manual tracking process.

“When dealing with an external commercial laundry facility, previous experience in the hotel industry has taught us that inevitably, items go missing. Often these items are never recovered, forcing the hotel to purchase replacements. What’s more, manual tracking processes is time-consuming, and inaccurate,” said Randy Zupanski, general manager of the 377-room Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel. “One of our hotel’s points of difference is the leading-edge technology we offer and the Fujitsu UHF RFID tags extend this to include housekeeping-our largest department and one that is often overlooked. We anticipate that the RFID will provide unmatched accuracy and efficiency, plus a significant return on investment by reducing …” read more

Accurate Inventory Control Leads to Huge Cost Savings

Woodland Hills, California-February 12, 2010

FOUNDATION LogicSystems announced that the luxurious new Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has installed their Linen Manager and Uniform Manager Software Systems which employ the latest advancements in RFID technologies on the market today. The advancement in UHF tag technologies by Fujitsu Frontech has extended the tags read range from 12 inches to more than 6 feet with a substantially higher read rate and with greater accuracy. As a result, it is now possible to read the contents of a large laundry hamper without having to manually unload the hamper onto a tunnel reader only to reload the hamper on the other side. Therefore, soiled items no longer need to be handled manually-resulting in a substantial reduction in … read more