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“… And now for something completely different…”. This week, MCI wants to celebrate the Monty Python team as they were first broadcast on the BBC on the 5th October 1969. From swallows carrying coconuts, being slapped with fish and the Spanish Inquisition, their unique brand of absurdist humour changed the…
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MCI were called to a well known bakery, to investigate a problem with a Hypermill ultrasonic cutting machine. The fault was in one of the two generators which provide ultrasonic vibrations to the cutting blades. The generator was transferred to our workshop, where we found a faulty relay and a…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life of a man who brought much joy to children and adults over the years. We want to pay homage to the legendary Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets. Jim Henson was always destined to be a puppeteer, creating his first puppets at high…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life and inventions of the Scottish inventor James Dewar. James Dewar was a scientist who worked with liquefaction of gases and was the inventor of the thermos flask. Dewar was born in in 1842 Kincardine, not far from MCI’s workshops in Falkirk. He went…
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MCI were called out to an emergency at a bottling plant. A Krones Prontomatic bottler / labelling machine had conveyor issues halting production. MCI’s engineers investigated and diagnosed a fault on a profibus card fitted to one of the obsolete Danfoss drives. The drive was removed and taken to our…
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MCI has been a dog friendly office for nearly a decade, MCI wants to celebrate a rather famous dog who solved mysteries with his friends, Shaggy, Velma, Fred and Daphne. Today was the day that Scooby-Doo was first premiered by Hanna Barbera in 1969. How many of us can remember…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the truly remarkable life of Richard Tolman. This man was a multidisciplinary scientist who excelled in theoretical cosmology and statistical mechanics. He was also a physical chemist and mathematical physicist. He was professor of physical chemistry and mathematical physics at Caltech. The part of his…
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MCI wants to celebrate the first moving image camera today. Thomas Edison / William Dickson invented the Kinetograph camera, which was a camera that could take a series of photographs of something in motion. The photographs were then stored on a perforated film and allowed one viewer to see the…
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MCI was asked to supply and fit a pneumatic ram with controls to an existing safety gate that was previously opened manually by the operator. MCI worked with the customer to find out their needs, researched the parts required, attended their site and performed the installation.The design incorporated a bump…
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MCI wants to celebrate the life of a very famous Scot, William Wallace. He died this day in history 1305. Most people will know him as the hero from the film Braveheart. Contrary to the film though, he was a well educated man who went to a monastery school. He…
