Entries for 'Nicklas Thystrup'
RSLogix 5000 is very intuitive and easy to use PLC programming software used for Allen-Bradley PLCs. There are a few tips and tricks that are very useful to know starting out, especially if coming from a different PLC programming language. These will...
DMC is proud to announce our status as an InduSoft Certified Systems Integrator. After years of experience using Wonderware's Indusoft on projects, we have become the only Certified Systems Integrator in Chicago.
InduS...
This guide will get you started with Beckhoff PLCs by showing step by step how to go online with an existing PLC to monitor or troubleshoot existing code on a running PLC.
To upload the code from the PLC for modification or backup, just follow ste...
This guide will get you started with Beckhoff PLCs by showing step by step how to connect to a Beckhoff PLC.
Download and install Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 programming environment.
Once the programming environment is installed, t...
Every month, one DMC office shares an update video with the rest of the company at our monthly meeting. These videos are combination of news, events, and fun.
This month was the Chicago office's turn. Inspired by our neighbors in Michigan...
Often it becomes necessary to read a few tags from another Beckhoff PLC without setting up a full publisher subscriber EAP system. Automation Device Specification (ADS) reads and writes can be used to do this with very minimal setup, as lon...
Just before the leaves began to turn this year, DMC's Chicago office decided to take advantage of the end of our good weather and head to Lincoln Park for some fun in big, bumpable bubbles. If you've never heard of bubble soccer, it entails c...
Beckhoff TwinCAT 2 and 3 PLCs have the ability to execute SQL stored procedures to read or write data without the need for an HMI. This is achieved by setting up TwinCAT Database Server on the PLC to manage the database connections, and using functio...
For FedEx Day 2015, a team of four DMC engineers hacked an Etch-A-Sketch to automatically draw pictures. We did this by attaching stepper motors to both of the front knobs on the Etch-A-Sketch, and controlling them with an Arduino Due microcontroller...
The built-in drive commissioning features in TIA Portal make it very simple to commission a Siemens G120 drive with a Siemens S7 PLC without the need for any stand-alone software. Drives can be commissioned quickly and easily, and afterwards all driv...