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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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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…
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Following an obsolescence audit at a customer’s facility, an expensive upgrade was recommended by the machine manufacturer which would result in loss of production for some time. As a more cost effective solution, MCI was asked to keep the original machinery going by sourcing three obsolete drives. Not only would…
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MCI received a touch screen control panel from one of our regular customers. The touch screen had been damaged by someone using a ballpoint pen on it. MCI’s engineers replaced the damaged parts and tested it before returning it to the customer. One happy customer and the machine was back…
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MCI has a customer who sells and refurbishes machinery. This time, they had a centre lathe that could not power up. We received an old KTK DC Thyristor drive and motor to test and repair from it. Our engineers set to work, and found lots of blown electronic components, Relays…
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MCI received an ECU for a well known German vehicle. Once our engineers had cleaned the circuitboard up, we were able to diagnose and replace a faulty inductor coil. Another happy customer. If you are having electrical or electronic problems with your vehicles, give MCI a call on 01324 611371…
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MCI was called in by another new customer with a faulty control panel. The machine was out of action and, as a result, food production had halted. No product means no income, so (of course) it was critical to the customer. MCI removed a faulty HMI panel and diagnosed major…
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Another new client has come to MCI Electronics to ask them to look at a ‘dead’ Thyristor speed control drive for a lathe. Our engineers set to work fault finding the obsolete control unit and found multiple faults. After replacing all of the main power components, the panel was tested…
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MCI received a Siemens Micromaster communications module from a pharmaceutical distributor. After our engineers had a look, they found that the capacitors had failed. After removing and replacing them, the module was back in action. Another happy customer! MCI is proud to work for many companies across the UK and…
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MCI has received this testimonial from another happy new customer: “My boat …[is] an 11metre steel Dutch Schooner. I sailed home to Glencoe from Friesland in 2018…using the ST7000 Autohelm continuously after leaving the Dutch canals…[and, during that time,] it failed on passage to Rathlin Island… I struggled to isolate…