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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…
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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…
