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  • Football Follow-up

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    This post is a follow on from our post on 24th June 2024. A well known football team asked MCI to redesign and produce obsolete printed circuit boards to control their turnstile operation. MCI designed, modernised and built the control boards. We also returned to the football stadium to fit…

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  • Paper Bag Day

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    MCI fixes many a packaging machine, so it is not surprising that we are celebrating Paper Bag Day today. Whether you are using them to hold your groceries or hold your burger and fries, paper bags are an indispensable part of our lives. The ‘first generation’ paper bag making machine…

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  • Wimbledon’s Historic Beginnings

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    While we were enjoying strawberries and cream a few nights ago (with a helping of Andy and Jamie Murray playing doubles for the last time), we thought of the beginnings of Wimbledon. The very first Wimbledon was held this week, 9th July in 1877. Let us set the scene for…

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  • Stone Cutting Machine

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    MCI had a call from a stone cutting company with a failed servo axis drive on their stone cutting machine. Production stopped. MCI’s engineers quickly set to work and found that the drive had multiple component failures and track damage caused by an electrical surge. New components were fitted and…

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  • The Barcode

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    Today, MCI wants to celebrate a very small but important invention that has forever changed the way we shop… the barcode. This week in history, the first UPC (unique product code) item was scanned at a checkout in a store for the public. This happened on June 26, 1974 in…

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