Centrex Technologies has completed a major new expansion of the RFID project for the New South Wales (NSW) Health Department based in Sydney Australia. This RFID project commenced in 2013 and has now been expanded to cover seven of the laundries they administer.
The Linenweb® RFID system was initially used for tracking of surgical linen, in particular Barrier Gowns for logging of wash cycles and loss control. This was then expanded to cover a range of other surgical linen and has now been further expanded to cover several high volume flat linen items.
The RFID Surgical System designed and installed by Centrex uses RFID readers from Impinj in USA (Centrex is a Global Impinj Partner), RFID Portals designed by Centrex and built in Sydney Australia and all integrated using Centrex’s proprietary Linenweb® Laundry Information System software. The system covers RFID controlled light tables and RFID scanning portals. Centrex has now installed nine (9) RFID portals for NSW Health including a portal in one of the Distribution Centres for bulk RFID registration.
NSW Health Department operate linen and food supply across the State of New South Wales Australia through their NSW HealthShare group. The linen operation consist of eight (8) medium to large laundries and three (3) large Distribution Centres servicing over 500 hospitals and clinics across the state.
Centrex Technologies has been providing laundry systems technology to NSW Health for 15 years. Centrex initially installed the proprietary Linenweb® Laundry System in one Sydney laundry in 2000 and this was then upgraded to the cloud based system and expanded to all laundries state-wide in 2007. The Linenweb® Laundry Information System controls all daily linen orders, stock control, new linen ordering, invoicing, customer information management and a wide range of advanced management reporting for all laundries and distribution centres. In addition, each of the NSW HealthShare customers has their own “mini-Linenweb®” system (Linenweb® Customer Internet Portal) which provides their own linen management system with remote ordering, PAR management, invoice distribution and archive, lost and found plus a range of management reports.
