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, not nearly as cool as getting shiny new equipment, sometimes kinda boring, and occasionally, expensive.   Rather stick a hot poker in your eye?

We can help.  Send us your huddled masses of electronic equipment needing maintenance or repair.

In case you missed it, Swiss-based ABB will acquire Baldor Electric Company  beginning December 2010 in an all-cash deal.  The $4.2 billion deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011.

Why?  For ABB, this transaction fills in a gap in ABB’s automation offerings by folding in Baldor’s successful NEMA motor line and will better position the company as a major player in the industrial motor market, including high-efficiency motors.  It will also bump up ABB’s mechanical power transmission business and will significantly broaden ABB’s access to North American industrial customers.

 Does it seem like your maintenance staff is constantly putting out “fires?” Or that your production equipment is always running to failure requiring industrial electronics repair and causing unplanned work stoppages? 

Lean manufacturing may be the answer.  Lean manufacturing concepts aren’t new but they are gaining momentum…and for good reason. 

By implementing some lean manufacturing strategies, you can track equipment breakdowns, schedule preventive maintenance, and anticipate needs for maintenance parts.   Benefits include:

• Waste elimination
• Defect reduction
• Productivity maximization
• Engaging  your work force as a team

Oh, the pain..the misery…the teeth gnashing and, oh yeah, the cursing!  Your drive just alarmed out, your equipment has stopped, production has ceased, and you are wasting time and money.  Can the drive be saved?  The good news is…probably! 

Before it comes to that scenario, consider this:  We all know HEAT is the root of all evil when it comes to electronic equipment.   Add some MOISTURE and DIRT and you have the electronic axis of evil and disaster!

So, practice prevention first by:

-  keeping your electrical cabinets CLOSED

-  keeping your FANS  in good REPAIR

-  making sure those cabinent FILTERS are always CLEAN

Not surprisingly, reliability ranked the most important criteria in purchasing industrial electronics according to a recent survey by Plant Engineering & Maintenance. 

Reliability was followed, in descending order, by quality, safety, maintenance, service, price, throughput, technology, noise, speed, and “green”.

Maintenance ranked 4th out of 11 so we know it’s pretty high on your list.  Nobody wants equipment that is difficult or excessively expensive to maintain.  Downtime is lost time and lost time is lost money.  

Save money in the long run by purchasing quality industrial electronic equipment with a good warranty.  And when that warranty runs out, or the OEM does not provide responsive service, send your repairs to a reliable expert. 

During the last week of April 2006 ACS Industrial Services received a call from a desperate store room management firm. They had been trying to get Baldor Servo Drives repaired with little success. Their customer was down to the last spare drive board and was starting to sweat. It seems that they had been sending these Baldor drive boards to several different electronic repair firms for repair. The trouble was that the drive boards were being returned repaired but did not work when installed. ACS performed a RUSH repair and returned the boards in two days. The following email excerpt is greatly appreciated by
ACS Industrial Services and the Staff:

ACS Industrial Services � Free Repair Guide
“How To Get Expert Electronic Repairs For Less, Where To Begin?”

You have an Electronic Power Supply, Circuit Board, Drive, PLC, Servo, or other electronic component that needs electronic repair services. How do you decide where to send it to get the expert electronic repair service you need? To a vendor your company already uses? To an OEM? To a new repair house? It can be hard to determine where to send your items.

Three Steps to Success

The following three considerations will insure that you receive the Expert Electronic Repair Service you need and the best value for your electronic repair dollar.

Does Your Food Service – Pizza Oven Need Electronic Repair? Is Your Oven Conveyor Stopped or Slow? Get Those Ovens Baking Fast.

Recently a pizza shop owner called ACS in a panic. His oven drive had stopped, the conveyor belt would not move, and they could not make pizzas. The conveyer that moves the pizza through the oven would not move or respond to the speed control. The oven manufacturer would not or could not provide the electronic circuit board repair needed to get the oven running. They offered the shop owner a new control system for $2500.00! Not only was this more money than the shop owner had, it would have required several days of downtime to retrofit the new control to the pizza oven. They were looking at more and more downtime to get the oven back into operation and were losing money every hour it was down!

ACS Industrial Services, Inc. repairs Seimens industrial electronics and circuit boards. AC drive repair, DC drive repair, PLC repair, industrial control repair, power suppy repair, encoder repair… If Siemens makes it, ACS provides electronic repair services for it.

For information or to speak to one of our customer service representatives please call 800-605-6419. Visit us at www.acsindustrial.com.  Expert industrial electronic repair services for your critical operations.