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One of MCI’s long standing customers had an issue with a 1960’s packaging machine. The machine was not completing its sequence and stopping production. After our engineers had investigated it’s old relay logic control, they found that one of the sensors wasn’t signalling to the control relays. After replacing the sensor…
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MCI received a call from a new customer whose printing machine had a servo drive and motor going into fault. We carried out an onsite visit to determine the fault and connected our laptop to the drive. We then found that the drive parameters were incorrect and, once we modified…
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MCI was called out to look at a customer’s pastry making machine. Production had halted – no sausage rolls or steak bakes. Our engineer found the cause of the error and quickly went to work and repaired the machine in good time. The pastry machine was back producing savoury pastries…
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MCI received a machine drive from a hot melt glueing system for MDF boards. As you can see, the board was badly damaged. After a good clean up and replacement of damaged parts, the board is back to its old self. If you are having problems with your machine circuitry,…
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MCI’s team received a desperate call from an injection moulding company. The company had been told the display and control system was beyond repair. They were not in a position to replace the machine and reached out to us for help. Our engineers carried out initial essential repairs and managed…
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A prominent packaging company needed an urgent repair of the main touch screen from their HHS multi head glue system as production had stopped. They said that a ‘bang’ was heard from the screen following by a burning smell. Despite being obsolete, MCI was able to repair the unit quickly,…
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MCI received a broken circuit board from a food manufacturer’s machine. The conveyor belt in an oven had stopped working and the circuit board was in quite a state! MCI tested and repaired the damaged parts. MCI Electronics has been working with food manufacturers for over a decade and we…
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MCI had a client with a faulty variable speed drive (VSD) in a high production machine and approached us to see if we could assist. We checked our stock in our warehouse and found that we had a replacement VSD available. However, it was a different type of drive. MCI…
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A new client approached MCI with ten of these roll forming machines, which had various electrical issues. Despite having very little information about them, we were able to repair the machines and get them back to working order. MCI is now working on upgrading the obsolete electrical control panels. Upgrading…
