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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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Today, MCI is proud to commemorate the death of one of Scotland’s kings and national hero, Robert the Bruce. Robert the Bruce, or Robert I was King of the Scots from 1306 until his death this day in history in 1329. He is most famous for leading Scotland in the…
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MCI was asked, by a manufacturer, to fix their main production machine. The old inverter had failed and the customer didn’t have a backup to programme the settings on the new inverter. MCI came to the rescue and were able to bring the old inverter back to life just long…
