On-Demand Color Mattress Tags-Labels

The story of Pleasant Mattress Inc. (pleasantmattress.com) stretches back to the throes of World War II, when the original Morgensterns immigrated from Vienna to the United States and cobbled together a new life. Today, Pleasant Mattress continues their tradition of resourcefulness and forward-thinking. Their success rests on the synergy between father and son. Generation after generation, Morgenstern sons have taken inspiration from their fathers, each one building on the tradition of the last. As Isaac Newton said, the secret to success is standing on the shoulders of giants.

Pleasant Mattress manufactures following product lines in their plant in Fresno, California:

• Chattam & Wells-the first Californian Born luxury mattress.  Each Chattam & Wells luxury mattress (chattamandwells.us) is made in the USA by people who believe their job is to create a mattress that provides the foundation for a healthy life.
• MAXX-Ingeniously over-engineered (maxxmattress.com) for years of support.  MAXX takes cues from traditional high-end mattress crafting; employing proven and durable coil engineering.
• Spring Air- the standard for quality mattresses (springair.com) and sleep systems. A great night’s sleep starts with a mattress that can both support the body and relieve pressure where it is needed most. Spring Air Back Supporter mattresses do just that, with patented designs and innovations that are unmatched by any other bedding company.
• Eclipse-makes a difference in the sleep health of their customers through handcrafting the highest quality sleep products.

Pleasant Mattress Factory

Pleasant Mattress contacted me when they wanted to add color labels and tags into their operation.  According to Russell Raymond, Director of Plant Operations, “In our facility, we mark each law tag we sew into our mattresses with a highlighter.  Each day of the week is added to each tag in the color of the group of orders.  These colors markers make it easy to track our products through production.  But it takes time to mark all of these tags; and opens up the possibility of errors.  We needed to automate this process, using our existing Easy Label software.”

To test the feasibility of this solution, I shipped a C3500 demo printer and labels to Pleasant Mattress to test.  Working with IT, we added the demo printer to their network and adjusted the Easy Label templates to add color based on the order number.  We made this change in a very short time.

Pleasant Mattress Test Label

In addition, we tested sewing into the mattresses some of the 5 mil poly tags we sell, and they seemed to work great.

Tag Sample Sewn Into Fabric

Based on this test, Pleasant Mattress purchased C3500, tags, and labels; and deployed them in their operation.

C3500 Printing 4″ x 12″ Tags

These printers produce the 4” x 12” law tags.  The letter represents the day of the week of the production; and the color represents a group of orders.

On-Demand Color Mattress Law Tag

And these tags are sewed into the mattress during production:

Color Tag Sewn Into Mattress

Once packaged, Easy Label generates a color-coded label for each mattress to represent a shipment of a group of orders.

On-Demand Color  Mattress Label

And once the label is on the finished product, Pleasant Mattress uses the color-coded label for staging and loading of orders.

On-Demand Color Labels for Staging

According to Russell, “the color codes prevent potential errors.  If a shipping error is made, the incorrect color sticks out.  The color-coding labels in our operation save us time and potential costs.”On-Demand Color Labels for Staging

The color-coding solution deployed at Pleasant Mattress reminds me of one of the first stories I completed on the C3500, many years ago at Tubelite:

Tubelite

From my perspective, two aspects of the Pleasant Mattress C3500 deployment make this solution stand out. Neither have anything to do with the printer.

First, Pleasant Mattress understood how color would improve their operation, and they found a way to automate this component as part of the solution.

Second, implementing an automated color printing solution was easy.  Using their existing label printing software, Easy Label, Pleasant Mattress’s IT manager understood the application sufficiently that making the change was easy.

I’m excited by the on-demand tag and label solution implemented by Pleasant Mattress, as it shows how color creates value in an operation.  Contact us to discuss how color can improve your operation as well.

Posted at 21:07 PM
Guy Mikel
855-962-7670
info@colorlabelsolutions.com