How to Choose the Right Industrial Lighting
How to Choose the Right Industrial Lighting
Choosing industrial lighting solutions to optimize the work environment is standard practice for every commercial facility. But this critical decision has implications that extend far beyond enabling visibility for employees. High-performance industrial lighting deserves thoughtful planning and attention to detail. When implemented correctly, the best industrial lighting systems for manufacturing can help you elevate worker safety, ensure precision, reduce mistakes, and boost productivity.
While fixtures, lamps, and controls all play a role in properly configuring industrial lighting for workstations and other critical areas, additional factors also make a difference, including how lighting is installed, managed, and maintained.
80/20 Integrates Seamlessly
Aluminum T-slot profile systems from 80/20 help manufacturing plants, warehouses, and other commercial environments make the most of their industrial lighting solutions by making seamless integration with facility infrastructure possible.
When choosing a high-performance industrial lighting system for your commercial facility, make sure you don’t overlook these critical considerations about how your lighting is supported, positioned, and secured.
1. Proper Lighting Placement Matters
Once you’ve chosen the right industrial lighting solutions, their performance depend on where and how they’re placed. A properly positioned fixture positively impacts visibility, safety, productivity, and efficiency. Employees can see what’s most important (a computer screen, a robot coming down the walkway, small components that need to be inspected, etc.) without being distracted by shadows and dark spots that make work more difficult.
This is where 80/20’s modular T-slot aluminum framing shines. Our modular systems let you deploy high-performance industrial lighting wherever you need it, whether you want to mount fixtures overhead, incorporate lighting directly into workstations, illuminate production lines, or build more lighting into storage racks.
2. Lighting Solutions Must Be Flexible
Modern industrial environments rarely see two days that are the same. What was a storage area yesterday may become a production zone tomorrow. New equipment is frequently deployed. Workflows change to accommodate fluctuating demands.
Your high-performance industrial lighting needs to be just as dynamic. This means it should be simple to install, reposition, replace, or upgrade as needs and requirements change.
With our modular framing systems, this level of flexibility is possible. There are no limits when it comes to configuration possibilities. It’s simple to rework or reconfigure designs over and over with the same components. Whatever you envision for your high-performance industrial lighting, 80/20 can make it a reality.
3. A Single Framing System Can Keep Costs in Check
Unifying your T-slot framing systems helps lower costs and makes maintenance work easier. This means using a single system to support everything from machine guards and workstations to enclosures and industrial lighting.
When you use the same components for all your framing systems, your in-house teams can quickly learn how to work with the system. They’ll be able to make fast adjustments and repairs, or even build custom mounts, with no special fabrication skills required. Maintenance teams will be familiar with the hardware they need and how to assemble it quickly and efficiently.
4. Don’t Neglect Cable and Wire Routing
Proper lighting for workplace safety and other applications often calls for extensive cables and wires to be run across ceilings, machinery, and work zones. If these cables and wires aren’t organized and secured, they can create safety hazards and productivity problems.
80/20’s T-slot profiles give you a practical way to neatly route and conceal wiring to keep work areas and equipment safe and tidy while guarding against accidental disconnections and dangerous wire exposures. When maintenance work needs to be done, connections can be easily accessed for repairs.
5. Location Matters to Ensure Proper Lighting for Workplace Safety
Because lighting influences the ability to effectively perform tasks, identify possible hazards, and respond to emergencies, it has a direct impact on workplace safety. In fact, OSHA establishes minimum lighting standards for different work environments to ensure protection and adequate visibility.
With 80/20 aluminum T-slot framing systems, you can position and secure proper lighting for workplace safety to make sure employees have clear views to perform tasks accurately.
80/20 Supports the Best Industrial Lighting Systems
Whether you’re setting up industrial lighting for workstations, mounting floodlights in storage zones, or adding task lighting in quality control areas, 80/20’s aluminum T-slot framing systems can help you design and implement the best industrial lighting systems for manufacturing.
Because our systems are modular and can be built upon as operations expand, they allow you to always get lighting to exactly where it’s needed now—and in the future—to ensure a productive, safe work environment.
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