The correct factory lighting is crucial to ensure the production safety and improve work productivity. However, there are still lots of factories that's illuminated poorly due to low level of brightness or incorrect use of light fixtures. Some factories are provided with bright and sufficient lighting, but they achieve it at the expense of extremely high energy use and maintenance costs.
What's important for supplying the proper factory lighting is to achieve a perfect combination of factory lighting styles & demands, budget, safety and lighting quality. The factory lighting design could also be influenced by factory size, ceiling height, factory layout, manufacturing industries, etc. Due to the high costs on factory lighting replacement and maintenance, the quality of lighting must be a top priority from the aspects of lights stability, lifespan, energy efficiency and lighting uniformity and so on.
Design lighting accordingly for different factory sections
As there are different lighting demands for varying factory sections, the factory lighting systems should be designed accordingly to suit the specific lighting styles and needs for different factory spaces. For example, for the spacious workshop and warehouse spaces where bright and adequate lighting is in need, we recommend energy-efficient LED high bay fixtures that come with high energy efficacy and deliver huge power consumption savings. In the factory offices where people stay most of their time at the computers, the LED linear lighting and led panel light fixtures are the good lighting solutions for creating eye-catching and visually comfortable office lighting.
Some other factory areas such as canteen, reception zone, stair, corridor can remain vibrant and unique with the presence of contemporary LED downlights, LED track lights and even some custom lighting systems ,etc. To supply shadow-free and balanced lighting across the entire space, we can bring an wonderful combination of the general lighting, task lighting and accent lighting accordingly.
Consider the varying factory lighting demands
There are plenty of lighting demands that need to be considered carefully before we propose concrete factory lighting solutions. For example, the factories manufacturing some precision equipments or the goods with little light reflection have a higher lighting demands on lighting design in terms of light intensity and uniformity for the factory workshop lighting. When you install factory lighting fixtures, please consider that the locations of installation are convenient for lights replacement and maintenance in the future. At this point, we recommend some modular and recycling LED lights that feature user-friendly installation and replacement. It's crucial that the luminaires should also be installed in the directions where the optimized light comfort and effects can be ensured for the workshop assembling lines or work platforms.
In some severe factory scenarios with high temperature and humidity or fixtures are subject to the explosive or corrosive gas, the lights you choose should be robust and safe enough to handle these extremely harsh lighting conditions.
Introduce smart factory lighting control
As the lighting accounts for a large fraction of overall electrical bill for factories, more and more factories begin to consider smart lighting control solutions for cutting down the electricity costs. With ability to turn on/off the lighting automatically for a certain periods of time as well as dimming the lights smartly based on the motion occupancy, the smart light control is an advanced lighting technology suitable for the contemporary factories for building clean and eco-friendly production facilities and meanwhile helping reduce carbon emissions around the globe.
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