Key Takeaways Aviation lighting requires high brightness, efficiency, and attention to detail because the stakes are very high. High-brightness applications like aviation lighting involve trade-offs among efficiency, uniformity, and heat. Expert light guide manufacturer teams can balance requirements because they understand how every system element works together. An existing customer...
Read MoreKey Takeaways Smart manufacturing defined: the use of technology to meaningfully improve our output to benefit customers. Benefits include faster production and market launches, consistently high-quality parts, and lower risk of functional or cosmetic defects. Smart manufacturing enhances our highly skilled workforce, it doesn’t replace it. ...
Read MoreKey Takeaways We invest significant engineering time upfront at no cost to you, so you only pay for tooling and production. Every pre-production activity, from optical simulation to prototyping, is designed to reduce risk before the design is finalized. Because our success depends on your production success, our incentives are aligned from day...
Read MoreWhen a consumer electronics manufacturer came to us looking for a single-piece solution to illuminate the control panel of a home appliance, they brought with them a complex challenge: how do you achieve multiple distinct, uniform lighting zones in a single compact assembly without any light leakage between them? This became the starting point for a new manufacturing capability that we’ve since...
Read MoreSupply chain issues? You’re not alone. As we closed Q1, I wanted to take a step back to evaluate what we’re seeing across the industries we serve. The biggest thing on everyone’s minds right now is supply chains. No matter the industry, nearly every conversation we’ve had this quarter has circled back to the same supply chain pressures: rising shipping costs, tighter...
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