Girbau Global Laundry Solutions (Girbau) recently developed and released the COVID-19 Disinfection Monitoring Package (DMP), a module that works in concert with Sapphire laundry management software to monitor and verify disinfection of washed textiles.

Unique in the industry, the DMP was innovated by Girbau to address the immediate need for disinfection and hygiene within laundries across the globe. Available on all Girbau washers, the DMP comes as a result of Girbau’s targeted effort to help counter the COVID-19 pandemic and stop the spread of infection.

The DMP is a module that integrates with Sapphire, Girbau’s smar t, remote management software. Sapphire greatly facilitates the management of a laundry, reporting irregularities and reducing costs and downtime. It also plays a crucial role in disinfection as it ensures compliance with the parameters necessary for proper textile sanitisation and, in addition, allows data to be stored and sent to customers.

“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 organisational disinfection requirements,” said Girbau global marketing director 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 the disinfection parameters previously stipulated by the customer. 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.

Moreover, the DMP provides the option of creating custom disinfection criteria based on the time and temperature for each programme 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 programme or machine does not comply with the established protocols for disinfection. In the event that the washing cycle has not fulfilled a disinfection condition, the user is alerted with a notification.