Inspection Lighting Essentials
In the world of manufacturing and quality control, precision is paramount. Every surface, every finish, and every detail matters.
While advanced technologies continue to evolve, the human eye remains the go-to tool in finding flaws, assessing quality, and ensuring customer satisfaction. However, the eye can only be as effective as the light that illuminates its subject. This is where cutting-edge inspection lighting becomes a game-changer, drastically improving the way companies perform visual inspections and maintain rigorous quality standards.
Making Defects More Visible
Inspection lighting enhances the visibility of a processed part to better reveal any defects, imperfections, or blemishes in work-in-process materials, parts, or components. We’ll cover several inspection lighting applications and reveal how eLumigen lighting steps up to provide the visibility needed.
Paint Booth Inspection Lighting
Paint booths require high-color rendering lighting to check high-quality finishes and to ensure the entire surface is fully painted. Industries as varied as automotive, aerospace, agriculture, construction, marine, medical equipment, woodworking, and white goods use paint booths or require superior lighting to check the quality of a paint job on work in progress (WIP). Inspection lighting is used specifically to monitor painted surfaces for defects and imperfections.
eLumigen offers highly sophisticated inspection lighting. Our High CRI C1D2 Linear Fixture is rated for Class 1, Div 2 (C1D2) applications, which cover protection from flammable substances that are usually not normally present in ignitable concentrations.
Harness the Power of LED Technology
Our LED technology changes the game in inspection lighting both in terms of performance and environmental impact. It uses less energy than alternatives such as fluorescent or high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting, thus reducing the amount of power needed from the electricity grid. It also has an extended lifespan compared with conventional lighting solutions, does not contain toxic elements like mercury, and is cost-effective over the life of the system. Our LED lighting improves color rendering needed to make accurate color matches in the painting process, and its excellent lighting performance makes inspections easier.
LED lighting offers improved inspection quality, and decreased downtime since the lighting is more durable and long-lasting than many alternatives. LED lighting installation is straightforward, typically taking less than 30 minutes to retrofit the new technology in existing paint booths. And its certification as C1D2 lighting enables businesses to use the technology with confidence.
Contact us to learn more about our LED inspection lighting and how it could brighten your paint booth performance.