I went looking through our database for some dramatic repair stories to share with you today…you know, like “forklift speared servo drive unit; customer needs damaged servo drive repaired in 24 hours super rush!”
Did you know that today is officially America Recycles Day? Don’t feel bad, I didn’t know either until I consulted my calendar. There are many reasons your company might choose to recycle unrepairable industrial electronics, but one reason that resonates with almost everyone is “saving money”.
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.
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 […]
Watching the television series “Revolution” the other night got me thinking about electronics (as if I’m ever NOT thinking about electronics!) and the way things have changed dramatically in just a few short years. Awhile back, many of our customers were throwing away many damaged industrial electronics – somehow it just […]
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?
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 […]
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 […]
Case Study for Repairs on aging Touch Screen: Who says electronic repair work doesn’t require creativity? Yes, experience, education, skill, and patience (lots of that!) are necessary. But a good dose of creativity is just what can make the difference in solving a challenging repair.
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 […]
