Russian brand of "Lighting Technologies" is mostly known only to specialists in lighting technology, because the company's products are not sold in stores. However, each of you are probably faced with the production of light technologies, as the company is the largest in Russia manufacturer of street lamps, lighting fixtures for offices, shops, industrial premises, warehouses, greenhouses, mines, tunnels and other objects.
I recently visited the Ryazan factory, which produces all of these fixtures.
Plant enormous: the total area under the shops - 84 000 square meters. 675 people and a lot of machines and robots produce 15 thousand lamps a day, released 3500 models and 9000 modifications lights and almost all of them are LED.
At the factory shop has aluminum casting, which manufactured lamps housing.
of sheet metal for manufacturing shaped parts is used as stamping or laser cutting.
paint shop.
The electronic boards and LED clusters are also soldered at a factory in Ryazan.
Fitting automatic SMD-components.
Soldering installation.
But this installation surprised me most of all: each row of LEDs after mounting checked for power consumption, light output, color temperature and color rendering index CRI.
In fact, the factory test all LEDs that will be in the lamps, just as I test the bulbs in Lamptest.ru project. Note from CRI LEDs above 87 and reaches record efficiency of 250 lm / W.
Another machine with the help of computer vision and artificial intelligence verifies the correct assembly of the driver boards.
Major components are mounted on a board montazhnitsa.
At many stages of production using robots. For example, the robot seals streetlights.
Of course, there are handmade. This welding housings, bent from sheet metal ...
... and assembly fixtures.
Several lamps from each lot are tested for failure. If even one fails, the entire batch is rejected. Due to this defect rate at a very low light technologies.
At the factory there is a small experimental workshop, which is being tested in the production of new models and are available in small lots of lamps on special orders.
Another amazing thing: the plant has its own design office, where engineers-optics, lighting, electronics and industrial designers create new fixtures.
Housing of new models, first printed in the industrial of 3D-printers.
Spatial 3D-scanner allows you to enter into the computer the shape and size of any objects.
There are a factory and its testing laboratory.
Goniophotometer - a device to measure the light output of lamps and large-sized measuring the distribution of light directions. Frame with its light sensors fixedly fastened rotates around the lamp in three axes.
The test for electromagnetic compatibility. Included lamp is placed on a wooden table and antennas located around it, catch the rays.
Strength tests.
The laboratory also tested all the materials used. Strength, fire resistance, the content of harmful substances. In the photo x-ray fluorescence spectrometer.
Tests in a heat chamber (incidentally produced in the same plant).
Test for moisture and water resistance.
On the day of my visit, the factory opened a showroom with samples of products. I tell you a secret that cutting the red ribbon was entrusted to me.
The lamp on the OLED-panels, of which I spoke recently.
It is expanding the plant. Who is building a new plant.
I made the plant more than 300 photos, but it seemed impossible. The plant is really very big.
In parallel, I was shooting video and there you can see so much more than in the photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v = nAyagOy2bjU
In addition to the plant in Ryazan, the company Lighting Technology is a factory in the Ukraine in the city of Slavutich, a plant in Spain, produces luminaires for emergency lighting plant in India, whose products already occupies 15% of the total volume.
Lamps Lighting Technologies Company used in a variety of stores (Auchan, Okay, Lenta, Karusel, Sportmaster, Ikea), in airports, stadiums, in a variety of offices, as well as on the streets and roads throughout Russia and Europe (Mission of Light technology works Germany).
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