Universal CleanersProduction System

Every garment in the plant — tracked, timed, and accounted for. Built in-house. Running in the cloud.

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Where we started

A counter and a
clipboard.

Before

  • A person counting pieces by hand
  • Spot Production Trac: $20–25 per station every month — a license fee forever
  • The clock inflates when someone forgets to log off
  • No idea what's pressed, what's late, what's lost

Now

  • A scan at each press — instant, accurate
  • Hardware we own outright — no monthly license, ever again
  • The garment tells us when it's done, not the clock
  • Live view of every piece in the building
The core of it

Scan a tag.
Know everything.

A presser scans the heat seal. In a third of a second, the system knows exactly whose garment it is and where it belongs.

80051456
CustomerBarrett, Audrey
GarmentFormal Long · Black, ACLER
StationDresses & Silk · 20/hr
Invoice06-210070
✓ COUNTED · MARTINEZ, MARIA · 11:42 AM
What the presser sees

A screen at
every press.

Mounted at the station. It shows the presser their pace against goal, in real time — no clipboards, no guessing, no counting.

Martinez, Maria
DRESSES & SILK
01:29
BENCHMARK: 20 PPH
● READY TO SCAN
● SCANNER ACTIVE
22.4 /20.0
PIECES PER HOUR / GOAL
18
THIS HOUR
143
TOTAL PIECES
The real station screen — one per press, mounted and kiosk-locked.
Day one, real result

It found a garment
lost since February.

The moment we loaded the data, the system flagged a customer's scarf that had been sitting in the plant, unpressed, for five months. Nobody was looking for it. Now nothing hides.

⚠ STALE — 60+ DAYS
Katzman, Shirley
Scarf Large · Saachi, Tan · Invoice 02-301463
5 months in production
Quality, built in

It catches the
wrong station.

If pants keep getting scanned at a shirt press, the system notices — tells the presser, and logs it for the supervisor. Three in a row, and it speaks up.

STATION MISMATCH
This station presses BOTTOMS. You just scanned a COAT. A supervisor has been notified. Are you pressing a different garment type right now?
YES — SWITCH TYPE
No, keep pressing
Quality control & accountability

Every redo,
traced to its source.

When a garment fails inspection, one scan sends it back — and the system remembers who pressed it the first time. Rework isn't free. Now we can see exactly what it's costing, and where.

Universal CleanersADMIN · REWORK REPORT☁ LIVE
14
Total Reworks
6
Represses
14
Garments Affected
HSLCustomerItemReasonOrig. Presser
80050133Patton, TanjiDressREPRESSMartinez, Maria
80009904Ames, LoganBlouseMISSING BUTTONLopez/Garcia
80042069Koontz, JessicaDressRE-CLEANMartinez, Maria
Represses charged back to the original presser — because a piece that has to be redone was never really finished.
The real Rework Report — searchable, filterable by reason or by presser.
What a supervisor sees

The whole floor,
one screen.

Pull it up at the start of a shift: what's waiting, what got done, what's running late. No walking the racks to guess.

Universal CleanersADMIN · PRODUCTION DUE☁ CLOUD CONNECTED
Production DueHSL LookupStationsDevicesAlerts
0
Awaiting Press
0
Pressed Today
0
⚠ Overdue 48h+
The real admin portal — live counts, pulled from the cloud.
Manage it from anywhere

Ten tablets,
run from your desk.

Each press has its own tablet. A press goes down, you move the crew to a spare and repoint the tablet — from the office, in one click.

Tablet 01Pants / Slacks
Tablet 04Blouses / Sweaters
Tablet 05Dresses & Silk
Tablet 07Inspection
Hardware we've earned the hard way

We already know
what works.

Three plants, three scanner setups, real-world lessons. This rollout uses what we learned — the smart middle, not the overpriced and not the underpowered.

HUEBNER · 2024
Surface Go 3 + Datalogic 900i
Windows tablet, rock-solid scanner — but premium priced ($139 used to $250 new per scanner) and Windows adds cost and upkeep a press station doesn't need.
Overbuilt & overpriced
THOUSAND OAKS · 2025
Fusion5 + Tera D5100
Went the other way — cheap Windows tablet, budget scanner. Got us started, but light-duty and fussy to keep configured across a fleet.
Underpowered
CALLAGHAN · THIS ROLLOUT
Galaxy Tab A9+ & Zebra DS2208
The smart middle. Android tablet (~$150, 7 yrs of updates) + Zebra's corded 2D imager (~$110) — enterprise scanning at a budget price, and 123Scan configures the whole fleet with one barcode.
The right tool
Tablet + corded Zebra scanner + mount — owned outright, with no monthly license behind it.
The bottom line

We own this.

$2,400+/yr
Spot Production Trac · 10 stations · every year, forever
~$3,000 once
Our hardware · 10 stations · then ~$0/month
At $20–25 per station each month, Spot Production Trac costs us roughly $2,400–3,000 a year — every year. Our system pays for its own hardware in about one year, then runs on our own cloud for pennies. Year two and beyond, that license fee is money back in the business.
San Antonio's Garment Care Experts —
now with the tech to match.
Universal Cleaners · Culpepper Plant · Built in-house 2026