ACS Industrial Blog

No power light on board.  No LCD on logic board.  CNC not working.  Work halted.  These are words no manufacturer of any size wants to see or hear.  It is the sound of work stopping – a mighty bad sound.

Making a big investment in new automation equipment may cause you to become paralyzed with fear of making a mistake.  Buyer’s remorse is a gut-twisting feeling no one wants to have whether the item is as small as a new cell phone or a much larger purchase like a new […]

There are all kinds of keepers.  Goal keepers, lion keepers, game keepers, scorekeepers, book keepers and, of course, the big fish that was “a keeper”.   This morning, while having some intensely delicious coffee at The Filling Station, I met a new kind of keeper – the Gunpowder River Keeper.  Yes, […]

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and…power supplies?  Oh yeah…power supplies are everywhere and in everything.  Ubiquitous and almost as necessary as oxygen, the underappreciated yeoman power supply runs the motors of your life, from the microscopic to the 40,000 volt monster variety.

Americans enjoy freedom like no other country in the world.  We embrace freedom in every way possible and guard it with our very lives. Whether your ancestors sacrificed their blood to create a free country in 1776 or they arrived on America’s shores in later centuries to follow their dream […]

Yep, we agree.  Filling out forms is a pain in the rump.  Either online or on paper, every time you turn around, it seems like someone wants you to fill out a form oftentimes repeating information you know darn well they already have.  Feel the blood pressure rising yet?   Reaching […]

And I mean that literally…if you have a manufacturing job such as power press operator, you really do not need or want to donate any fingers or limbs to the plant.  But this does happen…and often! According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 49% of the injuries from […]

Not sure what’s going on out there, but we got practically a wagon-load of encoders in for repair today.  That’s great for us because there’s nothing we love better than solving your electronic repair problems, but what the heck?  Is there an evil encoder wizard out there casting electronic mayhem […]

A spring 2011 survey of 318 U.S. CFOs and senior controllers, 50 of whom were manufacturers, shows there are serious concerns about inflation with 66% saying their company intends to raise the sales price for their goods over the next six months, up from 35% six months earlier. 96% of the […]