Opinions

Commentary | May 06, 2013

The Mandatory Basis for Professional LED Lighting - Guido Nattkemper, Director of LED Product Management at BAG electronics

Platform management speeds up development, simplifies complexity, helps to manage the supply chain and improves quality. Read more »

Commentary | Apr 05, 2013

What is the Next Wave in Lighting - is it Purely Technology?

Diversity makes lighting an exciting business. On the one hand you find people earning money with OLED doing one-off designs, then you have multi-billion Euro companies keeping their market share and reducing their workforce. How can this happen and what is next? Read more »

Commentary | Jan 30, 2013

It’s the Overall Solution That Counts, Not the Single Component

The LpS 2012 in Bregenz emphasized again that customers from the lighting industry are looking more for solutions and less for components. Without proper support and an understanding of the complete application, the lighting revolution will be prolonged. Read more »

Commentary | May 15, 2012

Solid State Luminaires Pave the Way for an Industry

From metal sheet forming to optoelectronic systems: Luminaire manufacturing began soon after the production release of incandescent bulbs and since then has been linked to the peculiarities of the used light source. Read more »

Commentary | Apr 27, 2012

LED Lighting Trends in 2012: The Rise of Lighting Solutions?

LEDs have already reached a sufficient “price/performance” level to enable massive adoption in LCD display applications. General Lighting applications will be the next and largest market for LED light sources. But the fact is that General Lighting can only take off if the cost/performance of LED based products can beat incumbent technologies. In that context, many of the lighting domain actors are developing new services in order to add innovation and value to Solid State Lighting, and differentiate them from traditional technologies. Will 2012 be the rise of Lighting Solutions? Read more »

Interview | Apr 26, 2012

LED Technology – Changing the Component Business in the Area of Lighting

In an interview with LED professional, Volker Neu, the General Manager of LED at Vossloh-Schwabe Optoelectronic explains the influence LED technology has on the component business in the area of lighting. Internal and external changes and alterations are necessary to be able to adjust to new technologies. Innovations and standards are especially important for moving the business of LED solutions forward. Read more »