National Vision's lab network is designed to promote efficiency and sustainability, enabling the company to quickly process lens frame orders from across its network of more than 1,100 retail locations. The Plano Texas facility features some of the most state-of-the-art equipment available.
National Vision's lab network is designed to promote efficiency and sustainability, enabling the company to quickly process lens frame orders from across its network of more than 1,100 retail locations. The Plano Texas facility features some of the most state-of-the-art equipment available.
The high volume of orders processed at National Vision’s lab reduces per unit cost, creating savings passed on to customers in the form of affordable prices.
National Vision keeps an extensive range of lenses and frames in stock, helping reduce shipping costs since all materials are on hand for processing in its centralized labs.
Large-scale AR chambers allow more lenses to be coated per batch, and operate 50% more efficiently than traditional chambers.
National Vision uses energy efficient lighting, including upgrading to LEDs where possible. LEDs are more than 75% more energy efficient than incandescent lighting, and each bulb lasts up to 25 times longer before needing to be replaced.
Associates are able to manage the highly automated production process through a Schneider Control Center. This increases safety by minimizing interactions with multiple machines.
Lenses are cut into individual prescriptions using MEI automated edging machines. Automated technologies help our labs work faster with greater quality controls — while also reducing our lab associates’ exposure to moving machinery with potential for injury.
Every lens undergoes a final inspection before being sent out to National Vision’s distribution center in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The centralized shipping capability helps get glasses into customers’ hands quickly and at the lowest cost.
Excess material from the cutting of prescription lenses is compressed into compact blocks that are one-twentieth of the size of the loose material. This results in more efficient waste management with fewer trips to landfills, and less space taken up by the material we are unable to recycle.