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MCI were approached by a local farm to fix a rather unusual problem. Their tractor driver had put the baler control underneath the driving seat rather than hang it up on the hook provided.When the driver’s seat was lowered, it pushed the joystick through the control assembly, damaging an important…
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MCI were approached by a major worldwide air conditioning company to repair a circuit board from their test equipment, used to ensure the air conditioning units pass their quality process before dispatch. The hand made circuit board came from a bespoke testing machine. The board needed to be fully realised…
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MCI received an urgent call from a local confectionery company which was part of a larger national group of companies. An essential piece of equipment, a metal detector, had stopped working and production was set to be severely compromised if MCI couldn’t get the machine working again. An engineer had been…
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MCI received an emergency repair from a nationally renowned bakery. A chocolate extrusion machine had broken down. No chocolate extrusion machine, no lovely chocolatey delights. MCI wasn’t just helping the bakery, it was almost performing a public service! Time was definitely of the essence with this repair. MCI’s engineers came…
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MCI has a long association with the maritime community, from leisure craft to submarines, we can help repair the electrical and electronic elements of it all. This time, we were asked to repair the steering control for a vessel which was stuck in port. MCI’s engineers dismantled the steering control…
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MCI were asked to attend a custom door manufacturer’s factory to repair an edge banding machine that had failed. On arrival, we found that the PLC had failed, with no power and no lights illuminated. Because of the age of the machine, the PLC was obsolete – but for MCI,…
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MCI received a B&R Touch screen Automation PC from a large International fresh produce supplier. The system failed to power up and this caused the production line to be down. Needless to say at this time of year the customer was desperate and needed this to be fixed as a…
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MCI was contacted by a well known local meat processing company who had suffered a breakdown and loss of production. We quickly carried out some fault finding on the machine and found that metal particles had got into the hydraulic system damaging numerous components and valves. MCI’s engineers removed and…
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A long term MCI customer asked us for help resolving a problem with the location of control buttons on a number of their machines. The standard machine came with a fixed control box that did not suit the customers operational needs. MCI’s solution was to remove the static control boxes…
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At MCI we encounter many exploded drives and problem sites. To dispel the squeaky clean image of electronics and expose the dark side here are some OMG examples, happy viewing. Have a great week everyone!
