January 26, 2015

Severe weather has been forecast for our area from January 26 through January 27th.

As such, it is possible we will have early or no shipments leaving our facility these days. As the weather moves in and we have more information, we will be sure to update you. Thank you, and our apologies for any delays this may cause.

FEA Holiday Schedule:

Our holiday schedule can be found below. Please keep in mind that even if we are open, some shipments may be delayed due to the holiday schedule of the parcel carriers.

Tuesday, Dec 23 -- OPEN, Phones unavailable from 11:45am - 2:15pm due to holiday party
Wednesday, Dec 24 -- CLOSED
Thursday, Dec 25 -- CLOSED
Friday, Dec 26 -- OPEN AS NORMAL

Wednesday, December 31 -- OPEN AS NORMAL
Thursday, January 1 -- CLOSED
Friday, January 2 -- OPEN AS NORMAL

We will be performing scheduled hardware upgrades from the evening of November 7th through November 9th. Please be advised that access to the FEA website as well as email will be limited or non-existent for the duration of the upgrade period. Regular operations are expected to resume no later than the morning of November 10th. Please plan accordingly for this temporary interruption.

FEA announces the introduction of Shamir free-form lens designs in glass. This article discusses when these new offerings will be available as well as what designs they are, what indexes they will be available in, as well as what color/polarization options will be available.

In the September issue of Eyecare Business, our own "Other" Bill takes part in a Q&A session regarding the dispensing of glass lenses. The article can be found on page 52 of the September Issue, a link to which is provided below.

Link:
Sept. Eyecare Business

In a recent Vision Care Product News article, author Steven Warfield interviewed FEA's "Other Bill" about how to produce the best lens for a wrap frame possible. In this article Bill also discusses the three limitations present for labs when it comes to producing lenses for wrap frames these being lens availability, machinery and frames. The article also features interviews with other industry experts around this topic and will likely prove insightful for ECP's and Optical Lab employees both. The article is brief and can be found on pages 85-86 of Septembers issue of VCPN Magazine. A link to the magazines digital version can be found below.

Link:
The Ins and Outs of Producing Wrap Lenses

In this post we invite you to take a look at an article in the September issue of Optical Lab Products Magazine that was authored by our own Bill "Other Bill" Heffner, IV. In it he discusses how lab automation can benefit not only lab owners/operators but also their customers. The article can be found on pages 12-14 of the link below.

Article:
What Can You Achieve With Automation?

From August 15 to November 15 enjoy a free upgrade to Transitions Signature VII Green or Brown on any of our Eagle free-form progressive lenses.

The article below can be found on the website known as the Onion and has provided us with a good morning laugh that we felt we should share with all of our users. To those unfamiliar with it the Onion is a fictitious and satirical online "news" website that publishes amusing pieces on wide ranging topics. This particular article is on a topic of humor for our industry.

LensCrafters, Pearle Vision Agree To Prisoner Exchange:
Link to Article

A Q&A between FEA's "Other Bill" and Labtalk's Christie Walker talking about how we stay independent and competitive when many other labs are being acquired by larger companies.

Read it here:
Lab Talk Online