Free evaluations at ACS have ALWAYS been free, and now, for a limited time so is the shipping – both ways. And that’s free shipping for Allen Bradley, ABB, Cincinnati Milacron, Fanuc, Okuma, Yaskawa and thousands of other manufacturers serviced by ACS Industrial.
As you may have discovered by now, there are only a limited number of qualified and reliable electronic repair centers for industrial electronics.
And those few centers are probably NOT located in your town which means you may have to ship your item to get it repaired. Free shipping can sure take some of the sting out that. Ready right now? Click this link: Get Free Shipping For My Electronic Repairs or keep reading for more info.
Continue Reading | No Comments | May 8th, 2013
Here in the Mid-Atlantic area we have yet to have our first major thunderstorms of the season but this is literally the lull before the storm(s).
It’s almost that time of year again – thunderstorms and lightning strikes.
Here are the heart-stopping facts that put your electronic gear in danger:
- 100 lightning flashes strike earth every second
- At any given time, approximately 2000 thunderstorms are in progress around the world
- Lighting can produce currents as high as 500 kA and voltage up to 30,000 kV
This kind of power can easily damage or destroy any industrial or commercial electronic equipment.
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How to Protect Your Industrial Electronic Equipment From Lightning
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Continue Reading | No Comments | May 3rd, 2013
We’ve just upped our rock solid warranty from one year to two! And, the new two-year warranty STILL covers both parts and labor as it always has. No fine print. We stand behind our expert workmanship!
When your equipment breaks down after the OEM warranty is up, you might feel a bit abandoned by your OEM. They would rather sell you an expensive new piece of equipment.
But chances are good that your equipment still has a lot of life left in it, and with ACS Industrial Services you’ve got options. Repair makes good sense that saves you money and improves your bottom line. Two year warranties just make it even better.
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Breaking News! ACS Industrial Announces Two Year Warranties!
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Continue Reading | No Comments | April 30th, 2013
Think about it…if you go to the doctor and he or she treats only your obvious symptoms, are you cured? Probably not. Sooner or later the problem will return. Getting at the root cause of the problem is key to the cure for both humans and machines.
For example, how many times have you or, let’s say somebody you know, replaced a damaged circuit board, only to have the same problem happen again? The circuit board often takes one on the chin for the team!
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Eight Tips to Keep Your CNC Machine Working Better and Longer
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Continue Reading | No Comments | April 17th, 2013
If Justin Bieber songs are all over your playlist, chances are you don’t even remember a time before touch screens; they are just a part of your every-day life, ubiquitous and expected. To the rest of us, touch screens are still a bit awe inspiring. ATM machines, cell phones, car navigation systems, retail point-of-sale terminals, monitors and industrial control panels – they are almost everywhere.
Continue Reading | No Comments | March 21st, 2013
Printed circuit boards have become ubiquitous. They are literally just about everywhere from the cheapest little toys to the latest DOD weapon system. Case in point: tear open one of those cute but annoying musical greeting cards and what do you find at its heart? A tiny electronic circuit.
We like to think of circuit boards as being a very modern invention, but in reality they are anything but. He might have ridden a horse to the laboratory, but in 1903 German inventor Albert Hanson was already describing flat foil conductors laminated to an insulating board. A year later in 1904 Thomas Edison was experimenting with chemical methods of plating conductors onto linen paper. By 1927 Charles Durcase had patented a method of electroplating circuit patterns and we were well on our way to the modern printed circuit board.
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Why Are Printed Circuit Boards Green and Other Facts About the Manufacturing and Repair of PCBs
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Continue Reading | No Comments | February 21st, 2013
Getting good servo motor repair shouldn’t be complicated or intimidating. You need that motor back up and running and there are lots of choices out there to get it repaired. Some good, some not so good. Typical servo motor problems include failed windings, broken shafts, seized bearings, non-functioning brakes, and bad encoders or resolvers.
What makes for good servo motor repair? Besides a good price and fast turnaround (those are expected!), here’s a short list of some things you should ask about and expect from the best servo motor repair shops:
- Tests and troubleshoots the entire motor
Continue Reading | No Comments | February 8th, 2013
Customer appreciation! Get 10% off your industrial electronic repairs this February! 
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
We’d be crazy in the Head
If we didn’t love You.
We seriously looove our customers and we want to show you just how much we love you this February – the month of love!
We could write you a poem (oh yeah, we already did that)…or send you flowers….or buy you fancy-shmancy candy in the shape of hearts…..or, we could show our customer-love by offering you a sweet discount on any repair in February.
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Customer Appreciation! Special Discount for Industrial Electronic Repairs in February
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Continue Reading | No Comments | February 7th, 2013
Is your Allen Bradley SLC-500 finally kaput now that you’ve reprogrammed channels on the I/O cards about 10 times? (Did you think we didn’t know you did this? Everyone does this.) Did your GE Fanuc PLC processor suddenly just “lose” its program? Has your ABB PLC faulted, the little red light is on and you can’t get your error codes to clear? Then you would definitely NOT be alone. We hear these tales of woe day in and day out from manufacturing plants and shops of all sizes.
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Solve Your PLC Problems Without Losing the Program
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Continue Reading | No Comments | January 21st, 2013
Chicken soup is delicious…steaming hot, homemade and swimming with noodles and chunks of tender chicken…you can almost taste it can’t you?
Well, I can whip up some mean chicken soup. Just ask my three buffalo-sized sons who also require multiple loaves of bread to go with it, and I’ve got some chicken soup for you too. That is, chicken soup for your down or damaged industrial electronic equipment.
What I mean by “chicken soup” in this case is serious customer service. We’ve got a team of customer service folks (live ones, not an “automated attendant”!) who are really listening to you and making sure our outstanding tech team gets all the details about your item you sent in for evaluation and repair.
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Chicken Soup for Your Broken Industrial Electronic Equipment
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Continue Reading | No Comments | January 4th, 2013