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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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  • Paper Bag Day

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    MCI fixes many a packaging machine, so it is not surprising that we are celebrating Paper Bag Day today. Whether you are using them to hold your groceries or hold your burger and fries, paper bags are an indispensable part of our lives. The ‘first generation’ paper bag making machine…

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  • Wimbledon’s Historic Beginnings

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    While we were enjoying strawberries and cream a few nights ago (with a helping of Andy and Jamie Murray playing doubles for the last time), we thought of the beginnings of Wimbledon. The very first Wimbledon was held this week, 9th July in 1877. Let us set the scene for…

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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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  • The Barcode

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    Today, MCI wants to celebrate a very small but important invention that has forever changed the way we shop… the barcode. This week in history, the first UPC (unique product code) item was scanned at a checkout in a store for the public. This happened on June 26, 1974 in…

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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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  • Doughnuts!

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    Who doesn’t love a doughnut? We at MCI love them. Whether it’s glazed, filled or sprinkled, pretty much everyone has had one or might even be having one after reading this! Well, the 22nd of June is the anniversary of the holed doughnut’s invention. Doughnuts themselves have an extremely long…

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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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  • John Logie Baird

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    Today MCI celebrates the live of one of its favourite inventors, John Logie Baird. Not only was he an inventor extraordinaire, but also an electrical engineer and innovator. The best bit was that he was also Scottish, just like MCI. He was born in Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire and, after he…

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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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