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Today, MCI celebrates the life of Robert Noyce. He was known as ‘the Mayor of Silicon Valley’ and was the founder of the Intel Corporation. If you’re not sure of the impact that Noyce has had in your life, look at your PC, laptop or tablet – we’re pretty sure…
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Automation is an essential part of modern manufacturing facilities. Without machinery to help us, we wouldn’t have the accuracy or efficiency that we enjoy today. When our machinery breaks down, it’s more than an inconvenience – valuable time and loss of production can lead to missing a customer’s delivery. Disappointing…
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MCI were asked to attend a custom door manufacturer’s factory to repair an edge banding machine that had failed. On arrival, we found that the PLC had failed, with no power and no lights illuminated. Because of the age of the machine, the PLC was obsolete – but for MCI,…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life and inventions of Marlan Bourns, who passed on March 18th 2014. He was the inventor of the Trimpot trimming potentiometer in 1952. A potentiometer is fitted directly onto the circuit board and allows you to adjust the resistance in a circuit. The current…
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Every workplace has a machine that has been there from the beginning, your workhorse and old faithful that you always rely on. It may have been there as long as you can remember, or (in the case of some of our customers) for generations. When it breaks down, production may…
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Today, MCI is celebrating National Periodic Table Day with the rest of the UK. We probably all remember the periodic table from our school days, from things that burnt with a squeaky pop to smelly chemical bridges. The concept of elements is very old indeed. The original concept of elements…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the achievements of Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden Zum Gutenberg, who invented the movable-type printing press on February 3rd 1468. Gutenberg, as his name suggests, was born in what is now known as Germany. He was a man of many talents, a goldsmith, gemstone cutter, member…
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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! This year is the year of the Snake. So everyone born in 1953,1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 and 2013 (following the lunar calendar) are all born under the year of the snake. Those born under the year of the Snake are said to be ambitious, wise,…
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Today MCI is celebrating the life and times of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. It is also Burns Night tonight, so we’ll be enjoying haggis and tatties this weekend. One of Buns’ most famous poems is To a Mouse, written in phonetic Scots. The poem is inspired by a mouse…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the inventor and scientist James Hillier. Canadian born Hillier created a prototype of the electron microscope as invented by Ernst Ruska as a graduate student. It was only a matter of time before he took things further and he later worked with Albert Prebus in…
