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 […]
Maybe your production came to an abrupt halt, or you are getting all kinds of beeping and error codes. These are expensive problems to have when it means production is affected. You want to get answers fast!
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Yep, we’ve heard that a time or two or three. On the face of it, Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) theory might seem like just another version of that casual approach to maintenance. But not exactly, as this would be way over simplifying and […]
Is your PLC finally dead now that you’ve reprogrammed the channels on the I/O cards about 10 times? (Did you think we didn’t know you did this? Everyone does this.) Did your Mitsubishi PLC suddenly just “lose” its program? Or maybe your GE Fanuc PLC faulted and now the little red light is […]
The trees are losing their leaves, the kids are back in school – autumn is right around the corner. Which makes me think of the fable about The Ant and the Grasshopper. In case you have forgotten here’s the quickie version: the Ant was busy during the summer putting away […]
Have you got shelves of unused electronic equipment? Maybe some boxes of circuit boards or drives or random components no one’s looked at in months, maybe even years? ACS might be able to take some of that “junk” off your hands. We are building some additional Siemens test fixtures at […]
Do you own or operate an offset printing press? If you do, then you’ve probably experienced the irritation (and costliness) of delay time due to web breaks, aborted starts and mechanical or electronic problems. Press time ain’t cheap and the clock is ticking!
Holy Smokes Batman! This power supply was on fire…literally! A hair-incinerating event for our west coast equipment manufacturing customer…and one we hope does not happen in your plant. This summer heat may challenge your ability to keep your equipment from overheating and possibly bursting into flames like this one.
Have you ever called a company and gotten an unenthusiastic, uninterested, unconscientious (or maybe just plain unconscious) customer service person? We all have and it’s an aggravating experience.
You might have a few PLCs in your shop already, or maybe you are considering selecting one, or more likely, several. If so, here are a few things you should know about PLCs.
