Kevin Ferrigno

03/02/2015

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Sam Weber and I recently participated in two meetings for the Siemens MOM Expertise Alliance Center (MEAC). Sam and I spent two days discussing the future of Manufacturing Execution Systems and Manufacturing Operations Management (MES and MOM) with t...

Jaclyn Bauer

02/27/2015

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DMC Denver celebrated our first Denver Restaurant Week this past Thursday at The Lobby. Best known for being the site of the former Paris Hotel Building and for its bottomless mimosa Sundays, The Lobby ended up serving a delectable dinner as well. ...

Jaclyn Bauer

02/26/2015

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Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. Senior Project Engineer, Kevin Ferrigno enjoys and welcomes challenges of all kinds. In this video, Kevin talk...

Otto Gottlieb

02/25/2015

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This article goes through setting up and using the Siemens S120 drive inside TIA Portal after configuration in STARTER. While several other Siemens drives can be started with Siemens Startdrive (G120, G120C, G120D, and G120P), performing a hardware c...

Michael Dannemiller

02/24/2015

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Often times when implementing a workflow, we as designers run into a situation where we need a variable to persist between each workflow. Sometimes it’s to determine if a specific process has been completed previously or to count how many times...

Eric West

02/24/2015

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LabVIEW Quick Drop is one of my favorite tools for speedy LabVIEW development. For developers who aren’t familiar with Quick Drop, it is a development feature that has been standard since LabVIEW 2009.  Quick Drop is activated by pressing ...

Nicklas Thystrup

02/23/2015

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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...

Nicklas Thystrup

02/22/2015

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This year was my first opportunity to attend the popular activity fund subsidized event DMSki. A group of 25 of us, including three significant others, ventured to Vail, Colorado for the famed annual event. We rented an awesome house this year whi...

Jaclyn Bauer

02/18/2015

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One rather snowy day in Denver, Boris decided to bring in some dry ice. Sure he was using it for a project, but why not have some fun at the same time? The guys froze apples and string cheese; they created some massive fog out of a plastic water b...

Andrew Griesemer

02/12/2015

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As a new employee at DMC Chicago, I’m quickly learning just how easy it is to plan exciting outings with my fellow coworkers. At our first mentor lunch, Gareth and I were musing on how much we wanted to learn how to fly fish. With some planning...