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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…
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MCI wants to celebrate the official invention of the calculator today. Although adding machines have existed since the days of the ancients, with primitive machinery like the abacus (which is still used effectively today), August 19th was anniversary of the death of Blaise Pascal, the ‘inventor’ of the first patented…
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MCI was asked by a new customer, that services the oil and gas sector, nuclear power and national fabricators, to replace the control system for a shot blast process. The customer asked not only for us to replace the old panel, but also to redesign it. We were asked to…
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MCI wants to celebrate the invention of the lift (elevator to our friends across the Atlantic). Elisha Graves Otis, born on the 3rd August 1811, was an American industrialist and inventor. His names still graces many lifts today. Not only did Otis invent the first lift, but Elisha Otis also…
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With the recent golf Open Championships at Royal Troon in Scotland, we at MCI thought we’d celebrate it with a golf repair story. MCI received an instrument cluster and switch control from a well-known golf club that operates a tractor-mounted sprayer for treating the greens and fairways. Unfortunately, due to…
