company buyout| January 29, 2024| Post by: LBIES Staff

Lewis Bass International Engineering Services (LBIES) is under new management

On January 26th 2024 Lewis Bass International Engineering Services, Inc. (LBIES) transferred ownership to four key employees from the current owner, Trish Bass, in a private all stock transaction. The buyers team (see bios below in the next section) are thrilled to begin a new chapter at LBIES and are looking forward to continuing to [...]

award, milpitas| April 6, 2022| Post by: LBIES Staff

LBIES Receives 2022 Best of Milpitas Award for Engineering Safety Consulting

Lewis Bass International Engineering Services is proud to be selected by the Milpitas Award Program as the best of 2022 in the engineering safety consulting category. We have made great strides in the past 3 years toward expanding our services, our marketing presence online, and even a full corporate restructuring and rebranding of our company [...]

flyer, unlisted equipment| August 30, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Introducing the Lewis Bass Unlisted Equipment Survey Flyer

Your plans for opening your facility after a big move to that new city were going so well... Then the electrical inspector showed up at the midnight hour and informed you that 50% of your equipment is not compliant and requires third party electrical certification before the building permit can be signed off. You look [...]

ASCE, cal osha, california, safety, seismic anchorage| August 2, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

When to consider adding seismic anchoring to your equipment

If this blog's featured image got your attention... Then you are now probably keenly aware of one potential result from not using seismic anchoring in your facility. Seismic anchorage can be seen in many forms in facilities and can even apply to equipment installed on moveable caster systems as we saw in a recent Ask [...]

field label| July 19, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

What to expect when you are expecting a field label evaluation

You've just setup and installed your new custom machine in your facility... and the custom machine is powered on and ready for production. It's in its final install location. You've securely anchored it with seismic bracing because it is over 400lbs, and well, it's just a good thing to do in general because you value [...]

electrical safety, safety| May 31, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Three machine safety situations facility managers need to be aware of

Machine safety is nothing to be taken lightly: here are three safety situations you should be aware of. Here at Lewis Bass, we have encountered just about every possible scenario involving machine safety and compliance-blockers in the course of providing our third party electrical evaluations to our clients. In this week's blog post we are [...]

field label, nrtl inspections| May 17, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

NRTL Inspections are not Field Label Evaluations

The sales team at Lewis Bass often receives calls from interested clients asking about our "NRTL Inspection" services. What they really mean to say (and are actually referring to) is a, "Third Party Electrical Evaluation" also known in our industry as a field label evaluation for unlisted equipment. It is quite easy to see how [...]

california SB/DVBE, certificate| April 26, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

What does Lewis Bass’s California small business certification grant us?

Lewis Bass received official small business certification status in California in December of 2020. (you can download our official certificate here). Much like the benefits and incentives granted us by our WOSB and WBENC certifications on a nationwide level, the California SB designation allows for California state contract bidding benefits not normally granted to larger [...]

field label, vulcan construction| March 29, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Lewis Bass Recent Project Interview Series 2: Vulcan Construction

Welcome back to our continuing series entitled Lewis Bass's Recent Project Interviews. This series offers an inside look into recently completed projects in which we played a key role. In many of our projects, Lewis Bass is brought on as a sub-contractor to a construction firm or other type of general contractor in the course [...]

SEMI S2| March 15, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Ask Lewis Bass: A Question About SEMI S2/S8 Evaluations

Welcome to another blog in our ongoing series, Ask Lewis Bass! This series features actual submitted questions from companies in the industries we provide engineering safety consulting services to. Topics covered include those associated with our work in 3rd party field labeling, SEMI S2/S8/EMC/F47 testing and design, CE Marking evaluations, and general engineering safety consulting [...]

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