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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 recently had the opportunity to work with a manufacturer of mobility aids for vehicles. This company approached us to design and build an initial batch of 25 specialised control boxes. These control boxes serve a crucial role, allowing users to simply plug in handset to effortlessly operate the up…
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MCI received a meat slicer with a fault from a food manufacturer. Our engineers set to work to find out what was wrong and discovered that the inverter drive had failed. We replaced the drive, and the meat slicer was back in action. Another happy customer! If you are having…
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MCI received an ECU for a well known German vehicle. Once our engineers had cleaned the circuit board 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…
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MCI got an interesting repair in recently. The boom operation from a Horizon crane (that any self respecting child would want in their toy truck collection) had broken down. Our engineers did some fault finding and discovered some faults on the components in the main control panel. The components were…
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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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MCI received some troubadours (stage spotlights) from a new customer. We were told that they had stopped working after having an electrical spike. Upon examination, we found that the main control board for the troubadours was blown and they were beyond economical repair. We managed to source replacement parts from…
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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…
