Jessica Mlinaric

03/06/2014

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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. If you're looking for Chicago burger recommendations or Microsoft solutions, David Ufford is your guy...

Ken Brey

03/06/2014

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Several entrants correctly answered the Balancing Act Geek Challenge. The correct answer is B, the scale tips to the right.   Correct answers were received from Tim Jager of DMC, Devon Fritz of DMC, Brandon Williams of Yaskawa, Ian Schle...

Ela Kaya

03/05/2014

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Engineers are known for being serious about their work, but we leave plenty of room for laughs. At DMC, we have a fondness for humor of the geeky variety. Our new monthly web feature, DMC Comics, will highlight engineering-minded humor with original ...

DMC

03/04/2014

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Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.    

Jaclyn Bauer

03/03/2014

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Restaurant Week in Chicago was one of the few things that helped us Midwesterners pull through this year’s Polar Vortex. With a line-up of restaurants spanning cuisines from the east of Asia’s influence to the coasts of Peruvian perfectio...

Jason Mayes

03/03/2014

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While working with a customer on a recent RSLogix 5000 project (now called Studio 5000), there was a need to protect some proprietary source code. In this particular case, DMC had developed a custom Add-On Instruction (AOI) to be used within the proj...

David Ufford

02/28/2014

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Recently I was setting up an Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) for a new Dynamics CRM 2013 implementation. Luckily the process has not changed much since CRM 2011, and there are many blogs and even a whitepaper that cover the topic.  One of th...

Grant Anderson

02/21/2014

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String concatenation. If a programming language supports strings, it's going to support concatenating them. The means of doing so are usually straightforward and often times involve a simple library call or even a one character operator such a...

Jessica Mlinaric

02/20/2014

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New beginnings aren't always easy, but DMC aims to welcome new employees by creating a unique starting experience for them. From day one on the job, employees are empowered, invited to dive in to project responsibilities, and greeted by our team&...

Jimmy Condon

02/19/2014

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For a recent project using WinCC Professional V12, I needed to have a pop up window that could change based on the screen window that the operator clicks (motor, VFD, valve, etc.). The popup also needed to have its location change based on where the ...