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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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  • Turnstile Circuit Boards

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    MCI were asked by a well known football team to produce some printed circuit boards to control their turnstile operation. The club couldn’t just purchase new boards as the boards were deemed obsolete. This didn’t stop MCI from helping. From an old sample, MCI designed, modernised and produced the PCBs…

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  • Machine Control

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    MCI were asked to attend the site of a customer, who makes over 60 million paper bags a week per week. That’s a lot of hard working machines! Their industrial printer had problems with speed control and tension. The machine control was a trusted workhorse which had served the customer…

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  • Tractor Circuit Board

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    MCI has long associations with the farming community. We recently helped a local farmer by repairing a circuit board from his old, but cherished, tractor. This tractor is critical to the operation of the farm and a quick fix was definitely needed. A replacement circuit board is very expensive and…

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