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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the inventor and scientist James Hillier. Canadian born Hillier created a prototype of the electron microscope as invented by Ernst Ruska as a graduate student. It was only a matter of time before he took things further and he later worked with Albert Prebus in…
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This week, MCI wishes to celebrate the life of the late, great Stephen Hawking. This genius of a man was famous within his own lifetime for his academic writing, widely read and appreciated by the general public and academics alike. Author of such books as ‘A Brief History of Time’,…
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Today MCI is singing: “On the twelfth day of Christmas, MCI sent to me,Twelve control panels,Eleven power supplies,Ten machines maintained,Nine panel displays,Eight motors running,Seven switches switching,Six capacitors,Five solder reels,Four LEDs,Three-phase lines,Two engineers,and a circuit on a PCB!” Our offices and workshops are closed and will re-open at 9am on the…
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‘Twas the night before Christmas at MCI’ s place,The whole office was buzzing with engineers at haste,The phone started ringing with a loud BRING-A-BRING,It was Santa’s own workshop – a new job had come in! All these new toys now are so very advanced,My poor little elves, they don’t stand…
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This Friday MCI is singing: ” On the sixth day of Christmas, MCI sent to me,Six capacitors,Five solder reels,Four LEDs,Three-phase lines,Two engineers,and a circuit on a PCB” If you have problems with your machinery, don’t forget that we offer a speedy and reasonably priced distribution service as well as our…
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MCI is today counting down to Christmas with the Twelve Days of Christmas. The true origins of the song and meanings are obscured by time. However, the most well known version was published in a children’s book dating back to 1780. In the North of England, the song was originally…
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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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The 30th of November is St Andrews day, the patron saint of Scotland. MCI, of course, is always up for celebrating all things Scottish as our HQ is in Falkirk. Whether it’s hearing bagpipes that brings an emotional tear to our eye (in a good way), or celebrating Hogmanay with…
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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…
