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MCI were approached by a local farm to fix a rather unusual problem. Their tractor driver had put the baler control underneath the driving seat rather than hang it up on the hook provided.When the driver’s seat was lowered, it pushed the joystick through the control assembly, damaging an important…
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MCI received an urgent call from a local confectionery company which was part of a larger national group of companies. An essential piece of equipment, a metal detector, had stopped working and production was set to be severely compromised if MCI couldn’t get the machine working again. An engineer had been…
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MCI received an emergency repair from a nationally renowned bakery. A chocolate extrusion machine had broken down. No chocolate extrusion machine, no lovely chocolatey delights. MCI wasn’t just helping the bakery, it was almost performing a public service! Time was definitely of the essence with this repair. MCI’s engineers came…
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MCI has a long association with the maritime community, from leisure craft to submarines, we can help repair the electrical and electronic elements of it all. This time, we were asked to repair the steering control for a vessel which was stuck in port. MCI’s engineers dismantled the steering control…
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Every workplace has a machine that has been there from the beginning, your workhorse and old faithful that you always rely on. It may have been there as long as you can remember, or (in the case of some of our customers) for generations. When it breaks down, production may…
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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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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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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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MCI received a call from a new customer who manufactures portable cabins. Their long serving wood pressure treatment machine had a failed Mitsubishi PLC. Unfortunately, the customer did not have a backup of the PLC program, so it had been very difficult to get the machine running again without MCI’s…
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A long standing MCI customer, who makes gas turbines for industry, civil and defence aerospace etc. had a broken spark erosion machine. This machine is used to cut vanes for turbines from very hard materials like titanium. Traditionally, a milling machine would be used to cut materials, but because the…
