DMC has been doing business in our New York office since last spring, but now that our pool table is installed, we're excited to invite you inside. You're cordially invited to join us for DMC New York's Grand Opening party on October 20, ...
DMC has expertise in both industrial and PC-based software development. In other words, we do a great deal of projects involving PLCs; but we also write plenty of complex PC-based apps. But my personal favorites are projects that combine the two. ...
Live from New York, it's DMC! We expanded to the Empire State this year, along with opening an office in Houston, to create growth opportunities and to better serve our customers. Although I actually moved from the Chicag...
DMC is proud to announce the opening of a new office in New York City! As a central hub to the metro area, New Jersey, Connecticut, and upstate markets, we view this new location as a wonderful opportunity for growth in all of our service offerings. ...
Siemens offers useful tools for accessing both Simatic and SiMotion projects programmatically, in the form of registered COM Type Library DLLs. These tools offer many exciting possibilities (well, it does if you're like me, and get excited by thi...
There are many good options for automation and controls redundancy out there. Here is an example we just recently used in the field. The customer specified a requirement of complete redundancy for all IT, networking, and HMI components of one of a la...
I recently had the opportunity to attend my first Siemens technical conference. The conference, called SITEC, took place May 16-20 in Atlanta, GA, and Kristie Shea and I represented DMC. SITEC is Siemens’ technical conference where solution par...
The Siemens S7-300 line of PLCs has about a million great features integrated into the programming environment. After I recently inherited a PLC project where some (many) of these were not implemented, I thought it might be a good idea to do a recap ...
Since their conception PLC programs have been founded on simple programs. RLL (Relay Ladder Logic) and IL (Instruction List) commands have dominated PLC programs since PLCs first came to market in the 1970s. However in the past few years automation r...
A lot of us here at DMC like to get outdoors and stay active, even during these brutal Midwestern winters. This Saturday, five DMC employees, including myself, braved the cold to spend a great day out at Alpine Valley ski resort. Jody Koplo,...