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A Safer Working Environment with LED Lighting
Apr
30,
2018

A Safer Working Environment with LED Lighting

By oeo2018 • Apr 30, 2018

With government incentives, cheaper initial purchases and long term savings in terms of both cost and efficiency, there are many benefits to changing to LED lighting. One of the less well reported aspects is the benefits they can have for safety.&nbs…
LED Lighting for Food Processing Plants
Apr
23,
2018

LED Lighting for Food Processing Plants

By oeo2018 • Apr 23, 2018

Industrial spaces have many needs, but some need a more delicate touch than others. While everything can be boiled down to a science, the food processing industry needs to ensure all of their calculations are correct. If not, the outcome could be cal…
The Cost of Doing Nothing
Apr
18,
2018

The Cost of Doing Nothing

By oeo2018 • Apr 18, 2018

While there may be many hidden overheads in the day to day running of your business, some costs are obvious. If you own or manage an industrial workspace, then it is easy to see that a large space means a large cost of upkeep. As these cost mount up,…
LED Lighting for Airplane Hangars
Apr
16,
2018

LED Lighting for Airplane Hangars

By oeo2018 • Apr 16, 2018

Industrial lighting has so many considerations, it can be difficult to keep track. Whether you are handling sensitive materials or the sheer scale of your operations boggles the mind, you need to make sure all of these considerations are met lest the…
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Upgrading to LED Lighting
Apr
12,
2018

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Upgrading to LED Lighting

By oeo2018 • Apr 12, 2018

Making the upgrade to LED lighting is ‘up’-grading for a reason. They are more cost effective, energy efficient and versatile than traditional metal halide or florescent bulbs. Once you have your calculations, however, you still need to be considerat…
How do Motion Sensors Work?
Apr
11,
2018

How do Motion Sensors Work?

By oeo2018 • Apr 11, 2018

There are different types of motion sensor, but they all exist for the same purpose: remote activation. With increased industrialization and automation of services, motion sensors have been incorporated into many different systems to allow electronic…
Guide to Warehouse Lighting
Apr
09,
2018

Guide to Warehouse Lighting

By Leah Einarsen • Apr 09, 2018

If you have a warehouse, you have worries about overhead. It is obvious that large buildings built to store vast amounts will have a lot of space. What may not at first be obvious is the lighting problems warehouses create. Safety and accuracy are bo…
Why You Can't Use Certain LED Bulbs in Enclosed Fixtures
Mar
27,
2018

Why You Can't Use Certain LED Bulbs in Enclosed Fixtures

By oeo2018 • Mar 27, 2018

If you have ever reached over to turn the light off before going to bed and accidentally grazed your arm on a flaming hot incandescent light bulb, you'll know it's the stuff of (minor) nightmares. One of the reasons LED lighting is the lighting of th…
5 Places in Schools that Need LED Lighting
Mar
16,
2018

5 Places in Schools that Need LED Lighting

By oeo2018 • Mar 16, 2018

LED lighting benefits home and business in similar ways, but there are some which need these benefits more than others. These are places which don't necessarily work for profit and rely on funding for upgrades and general maintenance of their premise…
How LED Lighting Can Benefit Your Gym
Mar
13,
2018

How LED Lighting Can Benefit Your Gym

By oeo2018 • Mar 13, 2018

Playing sport can be a great way to get the exercise we need for a long and healthy life. It's not the choice for everyone, but health can't be ignored. When it's hard to stay motivated at home, a place like the gym helps keep you fit even with a bus…
LED Lighting for Sports Fields
Mar
12,
2018

LED Lighting for Sports Fields

By oeo2018 • Mar 12, 2018

You may think that LED lighting is only designed to set the mood in the living room, make a dining experience top notch or help you find your car in a busy parking garage. The use of LEDs has grown exponentially and they can be applied to improve so…
Is High-Bay LED Lighting for you?
Mar
09,
2018

Is High-Bay LED Lighting for you?

By oeo2018 • Mar 09, 2018

We discuss all kinds of LED lighting here at OEO. Their multiple-functionality and high adaptability for any environment means new purposes are increasingly being discovered. While this can be exciting new for home and small business owners, the larg…
Benefits of LED Lighting in Restaurants
Mar
09,
2018

Benefits of LED Lighting in Restaurants

By oeo2018 • Mar 09, 2018

There are many reasons we go out to restaurants. Whether it's a rare special occasion fine dining experience or just a need to get out of the house, we often see them as places of celebration. At the very least, they're somewhere to relax. Whate…
Trends in LED Lighting
Mar
01,
2018

Trends in LED Lighting

By oeo2018 • Mar 01, 2018

LED lighting has made some massive strides forward in the last few years. One of the main focal points has been one of the industry's key successes. Namely, affordability making the benefits of LED lighting available to more people in more places acr…
LED Lighting Sees a Bright Future
Feb
22,
2018

LED Lighting Sees a Bright Future

By oeo2018 • Feb 22, 2018

We can't talk about the future of LED lighting without putting it into the context of its past. With a proven track record of environmental superiority and a vastly improved longer life span, you would appropriately be wondering why LED lighting isn'…
How LED Lighting Can Benefit the Steel Industry
Feb
05,
2018

How LED Lighting Can Benefit the Steel Industry

By oeo2018 • Feb 05, 2018

First of all, we would be hard pressed to find an industry where LED lighting won't find some improvement to make. With reductions in energy consumption and increase in cost effectiveness, it is making business better across the board.However, each i…
Lumen Depreciation is Impacting Your Lighting
Jan
31,
2018

Lumen Depreciation is Impacting Your Lighting

By oeo2018 • Jan 31, 2018

Were you one of those kids who was always told to stop reading when your parent's turned the lights out? Maybe to get a few more pages in, you hid under the covers with a flashlight only to make out fewer and fewer words as the dying battery made the…
LED Lighting in Cities
Jan
30,
2018

LED Lighting in Cities

By oeo2018 • Jan 30, 2018

On a beautiful afternoon with a buzzing atmosphere and no other responsibilities than exploring the streets, city living is unbeatable. Unfortunately, the day to day can be trying to say the least. It has sent even those with the hardiest constitutio…
How Proper Lighting Can Improve Savings and Safety
Jan
23,
2018

How Proper Lighting Can Improve Savings and Safety

By oeo2018 • Jan 23, 2018

Lighting and safety go hand in hand. It's not for nothing life jackets on aeroplanes come with a torch. Lights illuminate your way through the living room so you don't bang a shin off the coffee table. They allow you to read hazard signs so you don't…
Lighting and Effects on Sleep
Jan
19,
2018

Lighting and Effects on Sleep

By oeo2018 • Jan 19, 2018

Like many of the factors which either improve or hinder our sleep, lighting does not provide a straight forward influence on how well we kip. It's not that eating food will make us overweight. Eating the wrong food at the wrong time, however, will.Th…
How Lighting Can Affect Mood and Productivity
Jan
16,
2018

How Lighting Can Affect Mood and Productivity

By oeo2018 • Jan 16, 2018

Light pollution stops city dwellers from seeing the full star spangled glory of the night sky. We may think this is a fair trade of for being able to read books in bed and not fall down manhole covers when walking down the street at night. Fair as it…
Lighting Terminology for Dummies
Jan
08,
2018

Lighting Terminology for Dummies

By OEO 2024 • Jan 08, 2018

A Accent Lighting: Focusing light on a particular space or object. Intended to create visual interest in an area or object.  Alternating Current (AC): Electric Current in which the flow of electric charge reverses direction at regula…
Helping to Fulfill Dreams - An OEO Success Story
Dec
21,
2017

Helping to Fulfill Dreams - An OEO Success Story

By oeo2018 • Dec 21, 2017

“Of all the lighting retrofit solutions we considered, the OEO plug-and-play LED lamps were cost effective and fast to install – simply an amazing, high quality solution.”-Troy Baughman, OwnerTM3 Sports, Elkhardt, IN Let’s rewind back to Ju…
LED: A Brighter Future for Us All
Dec
14,
2017

LED: A Brighter Future for Us All

By oeo2018 • Dec 14, 2017

Once a breakthrough and exciting technology used by very few due to expense, LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting has now become a thoroughly researched and advanced technology making its way into our everyday lives due to efficiency and relative cost…