Although LightSPEC West 2024 in Anaheim is completed, preregistered attendees can access an exclusive online session, “Lighting Specification and Procurement in the Age of AI,” on the show's website.
Artificial intelligence shows great promise to streamline and transform how specification lighting is quoted. Forest Flager, CEO of Parspec, surveyed 40 of the top North American distributors and 40 lighting agents, including the majority of the top 10 in each segment, on how their teams spend time in the procurement process, from the presale and quoting process to the post-sale submittal and operations and maintenance (O&M) documentation.
The presentation explores the role AI will play in streamlining those workflows and ultimately changing the work that practitioners do on a daily basis. “The high amount of labor contributes significantly to a very high cost of sale of lighting products and also of construction products generally, since many product categories follow very similar processes,” Flager noted.