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    The Repair Before Christmas

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    ‘Twas the night before Christmas at MCI’ s place,The whole office was buzzing with engineers at haste,The phone started ringing with a loud BRING-A-BRING,It was Santa’s own workshop – a new job had come in! All these new toys now are so very advanced,My poor little elves, they don’t stand…

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  • On the Third day of Christmas…

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    This Friday MCI is singing: ” On the sixth day of Christmas, MCI sent to me,Six capacitors,Five solder reels,Four LEDs,Three-phase lines,Two engineers,and a circuit on a PCB” If you have problems with your machinery, don’t forget that we offer a speedy and reasonably priced distribution service as well as our…

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  • Two engineers, and a circuit on a PCB

    On The First Day of Christmas…

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    MCI is today counting down to Christmas with the Twelve Days of Christmas. The true origins of the song and meanings are obscured by time. However, the most well known version was published in a children’s book dating back to 1780. In the North of England, the song was originally…

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  • B&R Touch Screen Automation PC

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    MCI received a B&R Touch screen Automation PC from a large International fresh produce supplier. The system failed to power up and this caused the production line to be down. Needless to say at this time of year the customer was desperate and needed this to be fixed as a…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation celebrating St Andrew's Day

    St Andrew’s Day 2024

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    The 30th of November is St Andrews day, the patron saint of Scotland. MCI, of course, is always up for celebrating all things Scottish as our HQ is in Falkirk. Whether it’s hearing bagpipes that brings an emotional tear to our eye (in a good way), or celebrating Hogmanay with…

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  • Meat Processing Machine

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    MCI was contacted by a well known local meat processing company who had suffered a breakdown and loss of production. We quickly carried out some fault finding on the machine and found that metal particles had got into the hydraulic system damaging numerous components and valves. MCI’s engineers removed and…

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  • Control Box Replacement

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    A long term MCI customer asked us for help resolving a problem with the location of control buttons on a number of their machines. The standard machine came with a fixed control box that did not suit the customers operational needs. MCI’s solution was to remove the static control boxes…

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  • Happy Halloween – 2024

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    Happy Halloween everyone! As this is the last post before the big night, MCI looks at its last monster for this year… or is that hero? Frankenstein’s creation. We have already looked at the life of Mary Shelley, who wrote the book in a previous post. Today, we look at…

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  • Bela Lugosi

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    As Halloween creeps ever closer, MCI is looking at the monsters we loved to hate as kids. Whether you were a “hide-behind-the-sofa” or a “peep-from-the-cushion”, horror film monsters terrified and delighted us all. So today we take a look at Vampires. The man that many film vampires modelled themselves on…

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  • The Dark Side Of Electronics

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    At MCI we encounter many exploded drives and problem sites. To dispel the squeaky clean image of electronics and expose the dark side here are some OMG examples, happy viewing. Have a great week everyone!

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