50 Years of Serving You! Here’s Looking at 50 More!
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December 27, 2020

Happy New Year! What a year it has been! In over fifty years in business, we have never seen so much fluctuation and change. We hope you and your employees are safe and healthy. The start of a new year is a time to reflect, and we want you to know how much we value your business and your trust in our services for your industrial electronic repair needs.
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50 Years of Honesty, Transparency, Reliability and Affordability
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May 29, 2020

Keeping Our Commitment of Reliability & Support
The last few months have been wild and like nothing we’ve ever seen in our careers. Like you, we’ve been trying to navigate this new normal with our top priority being to keep our customers operating while also ensuring the safety of our employees. Thanks to the partnerships and friendships we’ve made with so many of you, our company achieved its 50th anniversary this past March. Such an accomplishment could never have been reached without our employees, customers, suppliers, families, and friends standing by our side for the last half a century!
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Avoid Common Failures: 5 Steps for Safely Restarting Equipment
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May 12, 2020

As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, businesses are restarting manufacturing equipment and starting to ramp back up to full capacity. This stresses the equipment, and as a result, some companies may experience electronic failures.
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50 Years in Business and looking forward to 50 more!
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January 8, 2020

Happy New Year! As our company begins its 50th year in the industrial electronic repair business, our commitment remains to work as a partner with our customers to find solutions to your industrial electronic equipment problems.
Many of our customers have issues with older and obsolete equipment, budget constraints, or lack of OEM support. Repairing rather than replacing is a cost-effective solution to keep your equipment running and increase the life cycle of your systems.
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2019 Industry Day Summary
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November 11, 2019

Control System Labs hosted an open house for industry on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at our facility at 1501 Kensington Ave in Buffalo, NY. Numerous current and potential customers and suppliers visited to learn about the industrial electronic repair capabilities that Control System Labs offers, as well as to meet the owners, Ed Bialek and Gary Fredricks. New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan of the 59th Senate District attended the event with his Chief of Staff, Keith Bryan.
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Recovering Industrial Electronics After Severe Weather
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July 29, 2019

Severe weather such as hurricanes, heavy rains, and flooding usually bring lots of water--something that doesn’t mix well with electronic controls. When Mother Nature interferes with your workflow, here’s what you need to know when you’re in recovery mode.
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The Importance of Proper Testing
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March 11, 2019

The repair process is more than just troubleshooting and fixing items. Without testing the control, it’s impossible to know if all defects have been identified and fixed. Testing is a critical part of the control repair process that verifies your control is functioning properly before it’s returned to you. We often spend more time testing the unit than we do actually fixing the unit. Creating the appropriate test plan requires experience that our technicians possess and is necessary to ensure a quick and affordable repair process.
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Why are Power Controls Important?
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February 19, 2018

A power controller is a device used to monitor and adjust the power used by heaters, lamps, and other industrial loads. A properly working power controller will not only boost the performance of these systems, but they also extend their working life and contribute to worker safety as well.
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power controller, power controllers, scr power control