Tissus Gisèle is a French company based in the Vosges that offers a unique range of linen for professionals. Every year, TGL produces millions of linen items for all business sectors. For several years, linen traceability and monitoring have been the subject of extensive discussion among linen manufacturers, textile machinery companies, hoteliers, laundries, and hospitals. The various stakeholders in the sector want to be able to track all their linen smoothly along the entire supply chain.
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The challenge:
How to improve linen management processes by providing a solution that ensures all stakeholders can implement it smoothly, without interruptions in production, logistics, or usage?
UBI Solutions and TGL joined forces to implement a fully innovative system that enables linen monitoring without disrupting production or supply processes.
To achieve this, TGL equipped its automation systems to continue producing in France. The goal was to integrate UHF chips into all linen directly at their production facilities. This was one of the many challenges faced by our partner Fenotag, who had to provide RFID chips that could be integrated into the automatic sewing lines of their machines.
Finally, for optimal traceability, it was necessary to equip their machines with antennas to ensure the installation was 100% reliable, thus providing their clients with a complete solution. Once the textile RFID chip is integrated into the linen on the production lines, the unique number of this chip can be used across the various and diverse IT systems of all stakeholders involved.
To track linen from production to usage, we developed UBI Connect, an innovative solution that ensures the traceability of each linen item throughout its lifecycle across all actors in the supply chain. UBI Connect centralizes all collected information. The data is processed and analyzed before being shared with all stakeholders involved in the process.
The introduction of smart textiles has allowed Tissus Gisèle to offer its clients a turnkey system for linen traceability. Thanks to the joint efforts of our teams, TGL is now able to provide linen equipped with chips, on demand. The goal is to equip all of our linen with UHF chips directly from our production facilities.
