An illuminating view
23rd June '12
Chelsea Lighting Design recently spent a day with the Spanish lighting company Vibia at their base in Barcelona.
As suppliers of their products, it was a valuable insight into the professional organisation of this fast developing company and into the complex logistics involved in designing, testing, preparing and assembling components to produce even the most simple light fitting. Tens of thousands of individual components are held in a huge storage facility, from tiny washers to large complex moulded diffusers and bodies.
Many of the component suppliers are small local businesses and in many cases they have had to re-address the way in which they traditionally produced and packaged their goods, to meet the rigorous demands of Vibia, resulting in a greatly reduced rate of rejection.
Our visit also included time spent with the design team and a privileged view of the research and development laboratory where new ideas and prototype products are tested and evaluated aesthetically.
It was important for us to see, first-hand, the process that is set in motion from the time we place an order and understand the complexity involved in progressing the order through all stages to completion and final shipping to us in Chelsea.
As a result, Chelsea Lighting Design is able to pass on the benefit of this experience to our customers and specifiers in relation to Vibia in particular but also in a more general way in relation to all our suppliers.
For information on Vibia see our 'Products' section or click the link to the VIBIA website on our 'Links' page
