Girbau North America has released the COVID-19 Disinfection Monitoring Package, a module that works in concert with Sapphire laundry-management software to monitor and verify disinfection of washed textiles. Available on all GNA on-premises and industrial washer-extractors, the DMP comes as a result of GNA’s efforts to help counter the COVID-19 pandemic and stop the spread of infection.
The DMP integrates with Sapphire, GNA’s smart, remote-management software. Sapphire facilitates the management of a laundry, reporting irregularities and reducing costs and downtime. It also plays a crucial role in disinfection because it ensures compliance with the parameters necessary for proper textile sanitization and, in addition, allows data to be stored and sent to owners.
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“The DMP provides new functionality that helps hotels, care homes, assisted living facilities and commercial laundries ensure their laundering processes consistently comply with world, country or organizational disinfection requirements,” said GNA President Mike Floyd.
Through Sapphire, the DMP shows, in real-time, the evolution of machine wash cycles with details of temperature, water levels and cycle phases. It allows the owner to quickly configure cycle conditions, including those for disinfection compliance, and verify that all cycles have met previously stipulated disinfection parameters. It also makes it possible to remotely manage all the parameters of the wash cycle, including temperature, water level and cycle phases, or to carry out detailed monitoring with the recording of the entire cycle history.
The DMP also provides the option of creating custom disinfection criteria based on the time and temperature for each program on each machine, adapting to the specific needs of each laundry. In doing so, it displays a summary of the disinfection rules and conditions created by the user. Laundry managers can then run a report to see if any program or machine does not comply with the established parameters set for disinfection. In the event that the washing cycle has not fulfilled a disinfection condition, the user is alerted with a notification. The DMP is compatible with all GNA on-premises and industrial washers.