Entries for 'Jason Mayes'
Manufacturing is increasingly reliant on intelligent automation. Recent events have proven that investments in automation can lead to competitive advantages—production can be scaled up or down quickly, rapid changes in the workforce can be more...
DMC is excited to exhibit at this fall's AWC Best Fest on October 24, 2019. This event will take place at St. Arnolds Brewery in Houston, TX from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
AWC's Best Fest will include seven different tech seminars, a technolog...
DMC is excited to exhibit at AWC Best Fest on February 21, 2019. This event will take place at Top Golf in San Antonio, Texas. DMC is proud to help sponsor this event.
AWC's Best Fest will include four different tech seminars, a tech...
Houston was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey last month. Thousands of homes were flooded and families are struggling to clean up before they can even begin to think about rebuilding.
From headline stories about Mattress Mack, JJ Watt, and th...
One of the great, and underused, features in TIA Portal is the Network Topology tab of "Devices and Networks." It can enable you to accomplish a number of advanced tasks while simultaneously providing more in-depth network diagnostics. Toda...
Ever wish you could create a project with optional hardware modules? Or add hardware in the field with any programming? Configuration Control within TIA Portal allows you to configure hardware modules and even I/O network objects to be optional so th...
For anyone who has spent much time working with the SIMATIC S7-400H, it becomes quickly apparent that the devil is often in the details. You find that there are many small settings and 'tricks' that you uncover while setting up redundancy, re...
It's back!
When V13 SP1 was first released, one of the features I was most excited about was the ability to multiplex arrays of custom UDTs on a PLC using a simple index tag on an HMI. This feature allowed me to use a single faceplate or scree...
Recently, I found the need to create customizable text for some alarms in a TIA Portal project. In this particular case, I needed to include the name of the operator that was monitoring the machine for traceability, as well as some specific mach...
After opening our DMC's Houston office last spring, we officially celebrated with a Grand Opening Party in May. The event marked the first official DMC Houston Party as well as the 20th anniversary of DMC! The night was filled with food, dri...