New Beginnings Start with Endings Sometimes!

Congratulations to Billy Zimmerer on his Retirement after 21 years of service.  Billy has been a valued member of the CBS staff and the void of his absence will be hard to fill. 

But on the other hand, Billy has earned his retirement and he looks forward to spending time with his family and seeing more of American with his wife (heard something about a Nova Scotia trip again).

Lots of people ask me why our company is located in Gainesville, Texas.  Quite honestly it is because of good people just like Billy.  In the country, the mom's still raise the kids right and they are taught about hard work, integrity and respect.  Whereas in the city, the quality of employee is much different.  I will take the country everytime and so will most of our folks.  Thanks again Billy!

PS.. all "retirees" are automatically invited to all festivals and parties for as long as they would like to attend.  They may have retired from the workforce but they will always be part of our family. 

Best wishes to everyone in 2012

Investment Recovery Association

Circuit Breaker Sales is pleased to announce that we have renewed our membership in the Investment Recovery Association.

The IRA is committed to ethical practices and the good stewardship of the rare materials of the earth.  CBS supports them in their mission.

Hope to see you in March at their annual convention in Scottsdale.

The 78th Investment Recovery Seminar & Trade Show will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, March 11-14, 2012.

Participación de CBS en CONCAPAN XXXI

"Muy contentos con nuestra reciente participación en CONCAPAN XXXI celebrada en San Salvador.  Este evento organizado por IEEE Sección El Salvador, es el más grande de la Industria Eléctrica de Centroamérica.  Tuvimos oportunidad de compartir con buenos amigos y profesionales de diferentes sectores, empresas y países, así como también hacer nuevas amistades. 

Muy buen ambiente se vivió entre todos los participantes. La exposición Industrial contó con 65 stands de Empresas Internacionales, con una muestra bastante variada.

Le damos las gracias al comité organizador, especialmente el Ing. Mauricio Flores, por todas las atenciones prestadas. 

Nos vemos el año próximo en Managua para el CONCAPAN XXXII, le deseamos la mejor de las suertes a su comité organizador en especial a nuestro buen amigo el Ing. Mario De La Ossa."

ISO Certified

We just had our annual ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 and we passed again with flying colors. 

For those of you who do not know ISO stands for International Standards Organization and Circuit Breaker Sales is the only "equipment dealer" in the USA with this level of certification. 

ISO basically means that our Quality Management System and Team are adequate to do the job we say we do.  We "walk the walk" not just "talk the talk".  When dealing with equipment dealers ask them for a copy of their Quality Management System.

Follow up to Mission Impossible..

As followers of the blog remember, a few weeks ago we were given a project to duplicate some switchgear that had been involved in a fire. Power Plant:  The accident occurred at the DeCordova Power Plant in Granbury, Texas.  The plant operates four natural gas-fired combustion turbines that generate 260 MW total.  The Accident:  It is believed that operators or electricians energized the 4160-volt switchgear while a ground was still installed following a maintenance activity.   While initially it had to look like there was not much chance of a "quick solution" or perhaps any solution (they had to think they needed magicians not scientists), fortunately the power plant called on the right service group who knew how to solve the problem.

By combining resources, our two companies were able to respond to this project in the time frame required by the customer.  There are way too many folks to thank here on this blog entry but about everyone on staff was involved in some little way either in working on the project direct or covering another job while we allocated that person to the project.  Pretty easy for the author to say it was fun, but I heard at least one tech say "let's not do that again for a couple weeks".  Scientists not magicians, this time we were magicians.  This switchgear went from the left to the right in about 3 weeks.




That's what we call CBS Emergency Response. Check out the wire, tape, termination care package we also sent along.  We even think of the little things.  Hopefully you will not need us, but if you do, you will be glad we are there.

UPDATE 3/11/12 - Check out this video (posted in 3D if you can handle it! I think you have to download the "wmv" file and then watch it with NVidia on a 3D enabled monitor). But we are the first to have some 3D Video.

From They want this back next week...