Lighting a Poultry Processing Facility in Northwest Arkansas

At a processing facility that operates around the clock, lighting has to fit both the work on the floor and the cleaning schedule. Malmstrom White's Poultry Processing Facility project in Northwest Arkansas brought those requirements into a lighting analysis and installation scope.

The completed project's portfolio describes wash-down capable LED high-bays, high-CRI fixtures for quality-control and inspection stations, and installation sequenced around active production and scheduled sanitation windows. These details make the project a useful reference for discussing a retrofit in an operating industrial building.

Specifying fixtures for the cleaning environment

The portfolio describes a processing floor that runs continuously and is hosed down daily. That environment shaped the fixture selection: Malmstrom White specified IP-rated, wash-down capable LED high-bays, with IP66-rated wash-down fixtures identified in the project highlights.

The documented specification connects the lighting to the facility's sanitation routine. Fixture selection was considered alongside the conditions the equipment would encounter on the processing floor, including repeated cleaning cycles.

For a facility team preparing a similar lighting discussion, describing the cleaning process is an important starting point. The operating environment belongs in the brief with the existing fixtures and the areas included in the proposed retrofit. This project's published scope keeps those considerations together.

Including quality-control and inspection stations

The project also included high-CRI fixtures specified for quality-control and inspection stations. Those stations appear as a distinct requirement within the broader high-bay lighting scope.

That distinction helps organize a facility lighting review. General processing areas and inspection stations can be discussed together while still identifying the work performed in each location. Here, the portfolio records a specific fixture consideration for the inspection areas rather than treating the entire floor as one undifferentiated space.

The project page includes the existing facility photograph and scope highlights, providing a visual reference alongside those documented requirements.

Reviewing lighting within an around-the-clock schedule

Malmstrom White lists lighting analysis among the services delivered for this project. The portfolio highlights the round-the-clock operating schedule as part of the energy-savings case for the retrofit.

Operating hours provide context for that analysis. In this project, the lighting served a continuously operating facility, so the schedule was part of the discussion alongside the fixture selection and installation plan. The published page does not provide a measured energy-savings total, and this spotlight does not assign one.

For teams considering their own retrofit, the useful starting information includes the existing lighting, the areas it serves, and the hours those areas operate. A project-specific analysis can then address the facility's actual conditions.

Coordinating installation with production and sanitation

The installation was sequenced around active production lines and scheduled sanitation windows. Malmstrom White's documented services for the facility include lighting installation as well as the initial analysis.

That sequencing makes the operating schedule part of the installation scope. The published project connects the equipment specification to a plan for carrying out the work in an active plant.

The facility offers several concrete topics for an industrial lighting brief:

• Describe the processing environment and cleaning routine.
• Identify fixture requirements for wash-down areas.
• Include quality-control and inspection stations in the review.
• Bring operating hours into the lighting analysis.
• Coordinate installation planning with production and sanitation schedules.

View the Poultry Processing Facility portfolio project for its photograph and documented scope. To discuss lighting analysis and installation for an industrial facility, contact Malmstrom White.