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Progressive lens manufacturing: the seven stations
From order to shipping box, the seven stations a progressive lens passes through in our lab, what each machine does to the lens, and where it gets checked.
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Independent wholesale optical labs vs corporate labs
Flat rate or a line item for every prism? What changes when your lab is independent: pricing, where the job is made, and who answers when you call.
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Lens edging: edge in-house or send it finished?
What edging a lens takes, what an in-house edger costs you in time, skill and remakes, which jobs to send out, and what the lab needs to edge them well.
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Optical lab remake rates, and our 0.48% return rate
A 0.48% return rate is fewer than 5 lenses back in every 1,000. Where remakes come from, and the numbers an optical manager should track each month.
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