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PROPER LIGHTING FOR ANY REQUIREMENT.

Excerpt from DIN EN 12464-1 regarding the illumination of indoor workplaces.
The listed values are requirements.

Traffic zones and general areas inside of buildings Industrial and craftsmen activities
Ceramics, tiles, glass, glasswares
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra

Traffic areas and hallways 100 40

Production/processing of synthetic 1500 90
Stairs, escalators, moving walkways 150 40 precious stones
Loading ramps, loading areas 150 40

Chemical industry, plastics and rubber industry

Warehouses and cold storage rooms
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra
Processing systems with remote control 50 20
Storage and warehouse rooms 100 60
Shipping and packing areas 300 60 Processing systems with occasional 150 40
manual intervention
Continuously occupied workplaces in 300 80
(High-bay) Racking
processing systems
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra Precision measuring chambers, laboratories 500 80
Drug manufacture 500 80
Tracks without passenger traffic 20 40
Tire production 500 80
Tracks with passenger traffic 150 60
Color testing 1000 90
Control room 150 60
Cutting, reworking, control work 750 80

Industrial and craftsmen activities

Ceramics, tiles, glass, glasswares
Electrical industry
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra Type of room, task or activity Em Ra

Drying 50 20
Cable and wire production 300 80
Material processing, general machine 300 80
Winding
work
ß large coils 300 80
Enameling, rolling, pressing, molding 300 80 ß medium-sized coils 500 80
simple parts, glazing, glass marking ß fine coils 750 80
Grinding, engraving, buffing glass, 750 80 Impregnating of coils 300 80
molding small parts, production of glass
Electroplating 300 80
instruments
Assembly work
Grinding of optical glasses, crystal, 750 80
ß rough, e.g. large transformers 300 80
manual grinding and engraving, working ß medium-sized, e.g. control panels 500 80
on medium-sized parts ß detailed, e.g. telephones 750 80
Detailed work, e.g. grinding ornamentation 1000 90 ß very detailed, e.g. measuring instruments 1000 80
(ornamental grinding), manual painting Electronic repair shops, testing, adjusting 1500 80
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Food, beverage and tobacco industry Foundry and metal casting

Type of room, task or activity Em Ra Type of room, task or activity Em Ra

Workplaces and work zones in 200 80

Emptying stations 200 80
ß Breweries, on malting floors
Machine molding 200 80
ß for cleaning, for bottling in barrels, for
cleaning, for straining, for peeling Hand and core molding 300 80

ß for boiling in canning and chocolate factories Diecasting 300 80

ß Workplaces and work zones in sugar factories Prototyping 500 80

ß for drying and fermenting raw tobacco,

fermenting cellars Jewelry production
Sorting and washing products, milling, 300 80
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra
blending, packaging

Processing of precious stones 1500 90

Workplaces and critical zones in slaughter 500 80
houses, butcher shops, dairies, mills, on Production of jewelry 1000 90
filter floors in sugar refineries Watch-making (manual) 1500 80
Cutting and sorting fruit and vegetables 300 80
Watch production (automatic) 500 80

Production of delicatessen products, kitchen 500 80

work, production of cigars and cigarettes Leather and leather products

Type of room, task or activity Em Ra

Inspection of glasses and bottles, product 500 80
inspection, garnishes, sorting, decorating
Working on vats, barrels, mines 200 40
Scouring, splitting, sanding, fulling the 300 80
Laboratories 500 80
skins
Color inspection 1000 90
Saddler work, shoe-making: stitching, 500 80
sewing, buffing, pressing, cutting to size,
Foundry and metal casting stamping
Sorting 500 90
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra
Tanning (automatic) 500 80

Walkable underground tunnels, cellars etc. 50 20 Quality control 1000 80

Platforms 100 40 Color testing 1000 90

Sand processing 200 80 Shoe-making 500 80

Workplaces on the cupola melting furnace 200 80 Glove production 500 80

and the mixer
Casting houses 200 80
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Metal cutting and metal working Power plants

Type of room, task or activity Em Ra Type of room, task or activity Em Ra

Free-form cutting 200 60 Fuel supply facilities 50 20

Drop forging 300 60 Boiler houses 100 40
Welding 300 60 Machine shops 200 80
Rough and average machine work: 300 60 Secondary rooms, e.g. pump 200 60
Tolerances ≥ 0.1 mm rooms, condenser rooms etc.;
Fine machine work, grinding: tolerances 500 60 switching systems (in buildings)
< 0.1 mm Switch rooms 500 80
Tracing, inspection 750 60 Outside switch rooms 20 20
Wire and pipe drawing, cold forming 300 60
Machining heavy sheet metal: thickness 200 60 Print shops
≥ 5 mm
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra
Machining lightweight sheet metal: 300 60
thickness < 5 mm
Cutting, gold-plating, stamping, 500 80
Production of tools and cutlery 750 60
etching of printing plates, working on
stones and plates, printing machines,
Assembly work: matrix production
ß rough 200 80
Paper sorting and block printing 500 80
ß medium 300 80
ß fine 500 80 Type-setting, retouching, lithography 1000 80
ß very fine 750 80 Color inspection during multi-color printing 1500 90
Electroplating 300 80
Steel and copper engraving 2000 80
Surface machining and painting 750 80
Production of tools, gauges and devices, 1000 80
precision and micro mechanics Rolling mills, smelteries and steel mills

Type of room, task Em Ra

or activity
Paper and paper products
Production facilities without manual 50 20
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra intervention
Production facilities with occasional 150 40
Working on beaters, edge runners, wood 200 80 manual intervention
grinding machines
Production facilities with continuous 200 80
Paper production and processing, paper 300 80 manual intervention
and cardboard machines, cardboard box
production Slab warehouse 50 20

General book-binding work, e.g. folding, Furnace 200 20

500 80
sorting, gluing, cutting, stamping, sew- Rolling mill, swifts, shearing/separa- 300 40
ing ting stations
Control platform, control stands 300 80
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Rolling mills, smelteries and steel mills Woodworking and wood processing

Type of room, task or activity Em Ra Type of room, task or activity Em Ra

Testing, measuring and inspection stations 500 80 Automatic processing, e.g. 50 40

drying, laminated wood production
Walkable underground tunnel, 50 20
conveyor roads, cellars etc. Steaming beds 150 40
Saw frame 300 60
Textile production and processing Working on the planing bench, gluing, 300 80
assembly
Type of room, task or activity Em Ra
Grinding, painting, joiner’s shop 750 80
Working on wood processing machines, 500 80
Workplaces and work zones on baths, 200 60
e.g. turning, grooving, true running,
bale openers
rabbeting, cutting, sawing, milling
Carding, washing, ironing, working 300 80
Selecting veneer wood 750 90
on the shredder, stretching, combing,
finishing, lacing cords, prespinning, jute and Marquetry, wood inlay work 750 90
hemp spinning
Quality control 1000 90
Spinning, twining, spooling, winding 500 80
Warping, waving, braiding, knitting 500 80 Explanations:
Sewing, fine-gauge knitting, taking up stitches 750 80 Em: Average brightness level. The quotient of the luminous flux and the surface with
Drafting, designing 750 90 which it meets corresponds to the brightness level. In general, it is determined on
horizontal and vertical surfaces and listed in the unit of measure of lux.
Underlaying, dying 500 80
Drying chamber 100 60
Ra: Color rendering index, which was introduced for the objective identification of
Automatic textile printing 500 80
the color rendering properties of a light source. The highest possible Ra value is 100.
Napping, looping, stripping 1000 80 This value decreases with decreasing color rendition quality.

Color inspection, textile inspection 1000 90

Invisible mending 1500 90
Hat manufacture 500 80

Automobile production

Type of room, task or activity Em Ra

Body production and assembly 500 80

Painting, spray booths, 750 80
grinding booths
Painting: touch-ups, inspection 1000 90
Upholstery 1000 80
Final inspection 1000 80