Having a non-functioning elevator is a sure way to upset building occupants and visitors to your building.  You will want to get it repaired and working fast.  Long wait times and travel times are often caused by something as simple as aged or defective electronic components in the control.  ACS Industrial Services provides regular and rush repair services for almost every elevator electronic circuit board and control installed in modern elevators.     Manufacturers we service  include Armor, Otis, U.S. Swift, Montgomery, and Kone.  Our technicians repair and test each board in equipment racks and simulated test situations and can work with older models as well as modern, microprocessor controls.  Evaluations are free and and we will get a quote for repair costs to you right away for approval.   Call us at 800-605-6410 or visit our website, www.acsindustrial.com.  Our customer service representatives are standing by to help you.

Just saw an ad for a book titled “How You Can Test Electronic Equipment Like a Pro”.  I just have to ask – why would you want to when I’m guessing you are awful darn busy already.   I know I am mighty busy here at ACS Industrial evaluating, testing, and repairing your electronic equipment because that’s my expertise and I’m good at it.  Send us more!

You know, I could probably get an auto repair for dummies book and learn to do all my own car repairs too…but why would I want to when “Joe” at my favorite auto repair shop here in Hunt Valley, Maryland is already an expert.  He can repair my car a lot faster and better than I can.  Plus, he’s already got all the equipment and parts handy.

Top 5 Electronic Repair Problems in 2009

I was just reading a friend’s notes and he made a great case for providing detailed information to your repair service provider.  Here at ACS, we request our customers describe the problem with their item when they send them in for evaluation. You probably could not begin to guess what our Top 5 repair descriptions were for 2009, so I will share them with you:

Top 5 Electronic Repair Descriptions for 2009

1. Does Not Work
2. Blank (as in nothing at all in the problem description box)
3. Dead

Repair or replace your damaged industrial electronics?   Occasionally it’s a clear cut decision like the customer with a burn hole the size of North Dakota in his circuit board.  Definitely dumpster material.  More often, there are a few things to consider when making industrial electronic repair decisions.  Here are a few questions to ask yourself:

How much did it cost new?

One of our regular customers recently sent us an Allen Bradley PLC SLC 150  for repair.  It had no low voltage output, no LED error indicator lights working and the DC power light would come on but no other indicators were lighting.  The customer was afraid it would not be repairable.  We utilized our Allen Bradley rack to analyze the unit and were able to identify the problems quickly. 

Three weeks ago our glass CNC machining center started giving an overcurrent alarm.  We determined that it was most likely the old Mitsubishi servo motor that was the problem so we sent it, along with the encoder, to ACS Industrial Services to check it out.  There was no cost for the evaluation of the encoder or the motor.  The motor was bad and because it was no longer in production we were afraid we would have to buy new.  But ACS Industrial quoted us for repair and listed all of the work that would be included.  Our Mitsubishi servo motor came back looking like new again and is working great. 

Three weeks ago our glass CNC machining center started giving an overcurrent alarm.  We determined that it was most likely the old Mitsubishi servo motor that was the problem so we sent it, along with the encoder, to ACS Industrial Services to check it out.  There was no cost for the evaluation of the encoder or the motor.  The motor was bad and because it was no longer in production we were afraid we would have to buy new.  But ACS Industrial quoted us for repair and listed all of the work that would be included.  Our Mitsubishi servo motor came back looking like new again and is working great. 

As maintenance supervisor for a large manufacturing plant it’s my job to keep our industrial equipment in good working order.  It can get complicated with so many different types of parts including power supplies, servo drives, robotics, hand held controllers, you name it.  Recently I began working with ACS Industrial Services on our industrial electronics repairs.  What a relief to have a customer service team treat all of my repairs as important. 

I sent ACS Industrial several power supplies including a Yaskawa, a Kepco, Lambda, and an Okuma, all pretty different power supplies. ACS kept right on top of all of them.  The Yaskawa power supply turned out not to be repairable, but they had a refurbished replacement available for a good price.

As maintenance supervisor for a large manufacturing plant it’s my job to keep our industrial equipment in good working order.  It can get complicated with so many different types of parts including power supplies, servo drives, robotics, hand held controllers, you name it.  Recently I began working with ACS Industrial Services on our industrial electronics repairs.  What a relief to have a customer service team treat all of my repairs as important. 

I sent ACS Industrial several power supplies including a Yaskawa, a Kepco, Lambda, and an Okuma, all pretty different power supplies. ACS kept right on top of all of them.  The Yaskawa power supply turned out not to be repairable, but they had a refurbished replacement available for a good price.

We called ACS Industrial Services for help when three of our Mitsubishi LCD monitors went bad.  We use these monitors in our power generation plant and they had all been purchased about the same time. Unfortunately, they were no longer under warranty.  With three out of our six monitors being down, we needed to either get these monitors repaired or buy new ones fast. 

ACS Industrial’s customer service rep stayed with our repair job the whole time.  This company got all three LCD monitors working again and back to us in less than 14 days. And it cost far less to repair them than to buy new ones.