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  • Meat Processing Machine

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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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  • Control Box Replacement

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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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  • The Dark Side Of Electronics

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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!

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  • Ultrasonic Cutting Machine

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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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  • Krones Prontomatic

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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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  • Pneumatic Ram

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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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  • Replacement Control System

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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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    Instrument Cluster

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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…

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  • Football Follow-up

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    This post is a follow on from our post on 24th June 2024. A well known football team asked MCI to redesign and produce obsolete printed circuit boards to control their turnstile operation. MCI designed, modernised and built the control boards. We also returned to the football stadium to fit…

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  • Stone Cutting Machine

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    MCI had a call from a stone cutting company with a failed servo axis drive on their stone cutting machine. Production stopped. MCI’s engineers quickly set to work and found that the drive had multiple component failures and track damage caused by an electrical surge. New components were fitted and…

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