Touchscreen Monitor Repair

Remember those bulky monitors that were heavy, unreliable, and prone to breaking down at the wrong time?  Thanks to touch screens, they’re mostly a thing of the past. 

Help for a Successful Plant Maintenance Shutdown

Getting ready for your annual or semi-annual plant maintenance shutdown? To keep your budget and schedule on target, make your to-do list as short as possible and focus only on things that can realistically be accomplished during a major shutdown. Everything else can be scheduled during normal minor shutdowns for preventive maintenance.  […]

Remember Those Who Paid For Our Freedom

Memorial Day has come to mean picnics and barbecues, the beginning of summer or, if you live near a coastline, the official start of beach season.  All good things to be sure. In fact, these good things can be enjoyed with freedom made possible by the sacrifices of the men […]

Case Study: Preventing Unnecessary Repeat Repair Costs

Have you ever had to repair your electronic equipment twice?  Or more times even?  For the same, exact problem?  Maybe, for example, an expensive drive repair?  This unfortunate situation does happen with some regularity and it can usually be prevented by taking some simple, no cost/low cost steps.

Power Supply Repairs for TV Stations

Hey, so what’s going on in all those television stations around the country?  For some reason we have been seeing a huge increase in damaged power supplies sent in for repairs from television stations.  Maybe things are getting a little rough out there in TV land?

Winning Solution For “Jerry-Rigged” Circuit Boards

Sometimes we receive some pretty mysterious repair jobs on the old loading dock.  Recently we received three printed circuit boards that were so, so, well, so “jerry-rigged” that we were wondering how they ever worked in the first place what with the point to point hand wiring, jumpers, and patches […]

Current Predictions for Manufacturing Business Conditions

Back in June the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) were predicting a significant decline in business conditions during the 2012 summer months.  This report samples 114 metal forming companies in the U.S. and Canada and is an economic indicator for manufacturing.  However, by July PMA had modified their predictions considerably and […]

PMA Makes Predictions for Manufacturing Business Conditions

Back in June the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) were predicting a significant decline in business conditions during the 2012 summer months.  This report samples 114 metal forming companies in the U.S. and Canada and is an economic indicator for manufacturing.  However, by July PMA had modified their predictions considerably and […]

Simplified On-line Repair Form Makes Getting Electronic Repairs Easy

Have you tried our new, simplified on-line repair form yet?  It’s been live for a few weeks and WOW is all we can say!  Wish we’d done it sooner. The process is working great and our customer surveys are producing comments like this: “Easy as pie. Nothing more needed.” “I […]

Repairing Industrial Electronics…Easy as Pi!

Easy as pie.  Pie in the sky.  4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie.  I just can’t help thinking of all kinds of pie today because yes, it is International Pi day!  As in the irrational and never ending Pi.   For four thousand years we humans have relied on […]