Do you consider plant maintenance to be a necessary evil? You are not alone. According to a poll by Plant Engineering, 44% of you feel that way. And, 30% of you consider it the first place to cut money out of the budget. I get that. Maintenance is not glamorous, […]
Like pie? Me too!!! Cherry, peach, key lime, shoofly, apple…. with ice cream…without ice cream. All pies! Today is International Pi Day….3/14….Pi…get it? As most of you are of the engineering mindset, I’m sure you got that. If you didn’t, Pi is the number expressing the ratio of a circle’s […]
Unemployed? If you are in construction or manufacturing, here’s some good news. According to CNN reports, in February construction jobs had the biggest one-month jobs gain in nearly four years – and it’s been a long darn four years for the construction industry which still has a jaw-dropping 21.8% unemployment […]
Excitement is in the air! Spring is almost here and it’s time for…wait for it, wait for it….no, not spring flowers, no, not baseball… it’s time for the Annual Science Fair! This weekend I will be spending quality time with the youngest and smallest of my three buffalo, oops, I […]
I am always interested in understanding where our customers are coming from. Two things I hear a lot are “skilled workers shortage” and needing to “produce more with less money”. Today’s tips are for helping you “do more with less”. No matter what your role at the plant, you are […]
We won an Academy Award Oscar for customer service!! Well, it feels like we did. Oh, we like to consider ourselves smart, clever, problems-solvers…and we are. But most of all ACS Industrial is a collaboration of customer-centered, skilled people who listen. Why? Because it matters. A lot. When we get […]
If you were thinking of just maaaybe watching the Academy Awards (or maybe your wife/girlfriend/room mate, etc.) is making you watch) on Sunday night, here’s another reason to watch, at least between 8:00 and 9:00 pm…the awesome new Harpejji (see pic) will be featured when A.R. Rahman and Florence Welch of […]
Science fiction once again comes to life. No, not flesh eating zombies but a tiny, incredibly dexterous robotic spy plane developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and built by AeroVironment . You don’t think that’s totally cool? Well, you will when you see it. What’s really cool […]
Yesterday afternoon, after fidgeting for an hour in a cracked, plastic chair at the Motor Vehicle Administration, my middle son received his learner’s permit and his Rookie Driver handbook….just thought ya’ll should know about this disturbing fact. If you are a parent of teenage sons, as I am of three […]
So, it’s Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday today. Did you see the Google logo tribute today? Pretty cool…based on 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. I hadn’t thought of Jules Verne lately…not since I read those classics aloud to my three sons who loved them as much as I did when I was […]
