Have you ever blown up components in your electronics? Pow! After the smoke clears, it’s charred, it’s black, it has holes in it and worst of all, it doesn’t work. Creative cursing may result from this frustrating situation! Why did this happen? Is there anything you could have done to […]
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 […]
Getting ready for your annual or semi-annual plant maintenance shutdown at this time of year? Whether you call it a shutdown, a turnaround, or an outage, it all results in a high-cost, big-impact event. Like any complex task, a shutdown can look overwhelming at first, but take some time to […]
ACS Industrial Services feels very blessed and very lucky to have survived Frankenstorm Sandy relatively unscathed. All of our facilities are currently up and running at full speed. Yes, some of our Maryland staff lost power for quite a while and had minor storm damage, but this is nothing but […]
Machine shops are usually pretty busy places, and sometimes, pretty dirty places. All that grease and dirt have a sneaky way of getting in where you don’t want them. Take a look at the before picture of this board out of a Charmilles Wire EDM. Now that is one dirty […]
Did your OEM tell you your damaged electronics were “too old to repair”?Or that the newer replacement is not direct and would require additional parts and programming (costing a LOT more money)?This happens often as it did recently to a world-reknowned New York hospital that sent us a touchscreen panel […]
Before, it was super-easy to find ACS Industrial Services’ website and online RMA/free evaluation form at your desktop computer. But now it’s even easier! You can find it anywhere, anytime on your cell phone or tablet with our new Mobile website at http://mobile.acsindustrial.com. We are excited to announce that, as […]
The fields of battle and the faces may change through the years, but the courage, honor and heroism remain the same.
“Shocking” Info Bites: Almost 500 people die each year from electrical accidents, mostly in the workplace, putting it among the top 10 causes of accidental death in the U.S. Approximately 80% of all injuries and fatalities caused by electrical accidents are not caused by the electric shock itself, but by […]
Plant Engineering has just released the results of their 2012 Salary Survey Analysis which very nicely covers much more than just salary data. The overall impression from this survey is that American manufacturers are really raring to go and are ready to be done with all things recessionary.
