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Today MCI wants to celebrate that in 1859, On the Origin of Species was published by Charles Darwin. It isn’t a surprise then, that this day is also celebrated annually as Evolution Day. Darwin decided to write ‘On the Origin of Species’ after travelling around the Galápagos Islands on the…
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It is Remembrance Sunday this week. We at MCI think that, given the terrible conflicts in this world, that it is more poignant than ever to take time to think of everyone affected by the conflicts.
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MCI received a control board for a Unimog Railtrack vehicle. We set to work fault-finding and discovered damaged tracks and relays. It was soon repaired and returned to the customer. If you are having any electrical or electronic problems with your vehicle, give MCI a call on 01324 611371 to…
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MCI is celebrating Bonfire Night (otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Night) this weekend. This celebration only happens in the UK and marks the night that Guy Fawkes and his followers were stopped from blowing up Parliament. Most children in the UK know the rhyme: ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November,Gunpowder,…
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MCI is celebrating gremlins for Halloween this year. Some of you will remember the films of the same name with fluffy creatures that mustn’t be fed after midnight. However, we are going further back into history than that, to WW2. RAF pilots sometimes had intermittent faults with their machinery. The…
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MCI want to remind all its friends that the clocks go back by an hour this weekend. As we were taught at school: Fall back for winter, Spring Forward for Summer. As we get ready for the long nights here in Scotland and hope to see the Northern Lights, we…
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MCI received a call from a new customer whose printing machine had a servo drive and motor going into fault. We carried out an onsite visit to determine the fault and connected our laptop to the drive. We then found that the drive parameters were incorrect and, once we modified…
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MCI wants to commemorate the life of Grace Darling who died today, the 20th October 1842. Many of you will have never heard of Grace Darling or her heroic actions that ensured that she was embedded in the history of lifeboats forever. She was a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived…
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MCI received a request from a food supplier who wanted a safety system fitted to their automated fryer. MCI designed, manufactured and installed a system based around the customer’s requirements. This system works with the existing machine sensors, to shut the machine down if there is an issue. If you…
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MCI wants to mark the date of the Battle of Hastings which took place today, Friday the 13th 1066. Many children in schools around the UK have heard of how two kings were both claiming the English throne at the same time. These kings were William and Harold. William came…
