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MCI was asked by a new customer to service their long-serving weaving loom that had an issue with its bespoke sensors. The sensor is essential as it determined when the shuttle needs refilling before the material runs out. Once we saw the application, MCI set to work designing a sensor…
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MCI wish to congratulate, the scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov for winning the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of quantum dots on the 4th October. For those of you who are not familiar with quantum dots, they are semiconductor nanocrystals. The dots are only a…
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MCI was called out to look at a customer’s pastry making machine. Production had halted – no sausage rolls or steak bakes. Our engineer found the cause of the error and quickly went to work and repaired the machine in good time. The pastry machine was back producing savoury pastries…
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Today MCI has a history mystery for you. The 29th September 1913 was the date that Rudolf Diesel disappeared. As you can probably guess from the name, Rudolph Diesel was the inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine. He was a French – German engineer who wanted to create the…
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Today MCI takes a closer look at the working week as we celebrate the invention of the 5 day working week courtesy of Henry Ford this day in 1926. If you hate Mondays, think back to the turn of the 20th century when there wasn’t a weekend off. Henry Ford…
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MCI received a request from a fire safety company to update an existing control box. As you can see from the pictures, quite an improvement! Another happy customer. If you have any machinery or equipment that needs an electrical or electronic upgrade, call MCI on 01324 611371, to see how…
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This month, MCI is celebrating An Wang – the inventor of the magnetic pulse transfer controlling device which is related to computer memory. Without An Wang’s invention, we wouldn’t have the digital information technology that we have today. If you need a PLC recoded, give MCI a call on 01324…
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When MCI says the word CERN, most of you will think of a particle accelerator. Yes, today MCI wants to celebrate the Large Hadron Collider (“LHC”), the massive (and we really mean massive) particle accelerator that was started up on the 10 September 2008. Without this amazing piece of equipment,…
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Today MCI wants to celebrate the life of Elias Howe, the man who should be more celebrated for changing the way clothing is made. Frankly, without his inventions, you would most likely have your trousers round your ankles! His story has everything, tragedy and taking on the bad corporate big…
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We received these LEV units to repair from a customer that our friends at Bannatyne Filtration introduced us to. After MCI’s engineers had a look over them, they identified the issues. After a few replacement parts were fitted, the LEV units were back in action. If you are having problems…
