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5 Tips to Speed Up Your Custom Event Lighting Solutions

When you plan to purchase the custom lighting for your projects, do you always have some difficulty meeting the project deadline?

Especially for hotel projects which come to big investment and have a tight schedule for project delivery, obviously, you need to do all you can to deliver all custom lighting fixture in time so to avoid expensive airfreight or a huge fine.

While custom lighting fixtures are always special, as so many different material types involved, and each lighting design is in a different dimension and finishing, the manufacturer need much more communication time with you to ensure the product details. After that, the custom light fixture fabrication will take from 4 to 8 weeks, much longer than the standard lighting fixtures.

Here are the tips for saving time, as well as money, in your custom lighting projects:

1. Collect all required information for the custom lighting in your project It is the first stage for proceeding any custom event lighting solution project, this information includes the final lighting design, material, finishing, size and the budget.

This will make sure you can have a quick communication with manufacturers and find the most suitable one to start the works.

If you are the project owner or designer, you can figure out these details easily. If not you need to get in touch with the project owner/designer/consultant for getting these details.

2. Work with a reliable and experienced manufacturer

Your custom lighting manufacturer should be equipped with a technical team and sufficient production facilities, such as laser cutting, automatic welding, recessing, polishing, and hole drilling machine. So the production process would be efficient.

Rich production experience on custom lighting can foresee any manufacturing problems from the initial design stage, they can give you workable suggestions before starting production.

As a good custom light manufacturer, it’s important to have the capability and keep the project deadline in mind throughout the entire production process, and take full responsibility for the in-time delivery with quality products.

3. Quick feedback on factory production shop drawings & samples

Once the factory provides you the production drawings and material samples, check if they are compliant to your original design and specification, then confirm to the factory immediately for starting the production.

If not, you need to communicate with the factory to find out the reason for the difference. Due to the manufacturing or material limitation, in some cases some slight changes become Inevitable, but if this change deforms your original design, you will need to find a solution with the factory at once.

4. Ensure effective communication with manufacturer on custom lighting specification If you can provide the design shop drawings, photos or samples to the custom lighting manufacturer, it will help to explain your design idea clearly for a better understanding of what you need.

For example, different people have very different understanding on the metal finishing such as antique brass or bronze, but if you can provide a metal finishing sample or even a photo, this will clear all the doubt.

5. Try to avoid mold/tooling development

Mold development will make your leading time much longer. Usually, the procedure of mold development will take 3~4 weeks, such as the glass mold, ceramic mold, and any metal mold.

Also, the cost of new mold can be very expensive in some cases, especially the mold for die-cast aluminum, stainless steel, acrylic and any plastic materials.

The best way is for you to choose a similar design or the existing mold instead of developing the new mold, in case you do have limited time for custom light fixture fabrication.