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MCI wants to celebrate the official invention of the calculator today. Although adding machines have existed since the days of the ancients, with primitive machinery like the abacus (which is still used effectively today), August 19th was anniversary of the death of Blaise Pascal, the ‘inventor’ of the first patented…
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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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MCI wants to celebrate the invention of the lift (elevator to our friends across the Atlantic). Elisha Graves Otis, born on the 3rd August 1811, was an American industrialist and inventor. His names still graces many lifts today. Not only did Otis invent the first lift, but Elisha Otis also…
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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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MCI is celebrating the marine environment this week, as it is currently National Marine Week. At this time, we are all encouraged to take a minute to think about the immense importance of the sea and all the diverse life that lives in it. It’s not only an essential part…
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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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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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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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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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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…
