When the OEM says discontinued, we design the replacement.
HERO Control Systems is Zambia's leading engineer-led industrial technology company: we repair the power electronics that run the country's telecom towers, water utilities, mines and factories, design the boards nobody makes any more, power and secure corporate sites, train the engineers, and build the software that keeps it all running.
Designed in Zambia by HEROLusaka Water contactor board · running since Feb 2026 · zero failures
Engineers, not traders — the difference buyers feel.
We do not import parts and mark them up. We diagnose to component level with oscilloscopes and thermal imaging, repair on our bench in Lusaka, and when the card is discontinued we design a new one — a capability no other company in Zambia has put on public record.
Telecom power & radio repair
Rectifiers, site monitoring units, RRUs, BBUs and RF amplifiers repaired to component level in Lusaka — instead of shipped abroad or scrapped.
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Industrial repair & maintenance
VFDs, soft starters, UPS, inverters, PLCs and motors. Thermal-imaging inspections that find failures before they stop the plant.
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Electronics design & PCB
Replacement boards for discontinued OEM cards, battery management systems, custom controllers — designed, built and tested in Zambia.
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When the OEM said "discontinued"
Pump-station contactor control cards kept burning out and the manufacturer had stopped making them. Travis Labs reverse-engineered the card, designed a new PCB and firmware, and built a replacement in Lusaka. Deployed since February 2026 — zero failures.
Deployed since Feb 2026 · zero failures
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We train the people who keep plants alive.
300+ engineers and technicians trained in PLC & automation, electronics and power design, thermal imaging and energy storage — on real drives, real boards and our own Zabble training kit.
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Seven apps. One login. Built for Zambian SMEs.
Xeel · SalesOps · Money · Inventory · Workshop · Field Work · Route43. Browser-based, offline-capable, statutory-compliant, and it talks to your team on WhatsApp. Free to start.
Lamia 1 — the first phone designed in Zambia.
A bench that redesigns industrial boards and exports electronics is a bench that can design a handset. Lamia 1 is our programme to prove it — target availability 2028.
The Lamia programme
Today we repair what fails and design the replacement when the OEM says "discontinued". Within twenty years we design and manufacture our own PLCs, industrial controllers and embedded processors — the first chip maker in Africa, built from Zambia.HCS vision 2050 · Learn · Build · ScaleMeet the team →
Equipment failing? OEM can't help?
Send a photo of the nameplate on WhatsApp and we will tell you what we can do.