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 ...
DMC just attained a rather significant milestone - we now have eight people who have met all of the requirements for the Global Technical Certification in the SIMATIC Technology areas of S7 PLCs, SIMATIC HMIs, and SIMATIC Networking. This is si...
Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment. For those who aren't able to keep updated on our quotes in-person we will be sho...
DMC will be leading an executive breakfast workshop on March 16, 2011 at Microsoft's Midwest Headquarters in Downers Grove, IL. The event will focus on making the switch to a collaborative company culture and applying technology like Microsoft Sh...
Our firm started partnering with DMC in 1998 to help us integrate some machine controls with computer readouts of SPC data. As computer technology evolved, our old 386 PC computers became obsolete fairly quickly. While the basic 1998...
Source Code Control (SCC) is universally acknowledged by developers as an important part of developing and maintaining projects. Effective use of takes discipline because what is not checked into the repository is not saved. Opening ...
This week marked the end of my first three months here at DMC. And they've been busy months. Every project I've worked on has involved a technology that, prior to joining DMC, I'd never worked with before. So there has been a lot of learn...
Recently as I was creating a SharePoint web part for a DMC client I ran across a problem which really stumped me. At first, I thought what I had was an easy problem to solve: how does one open a popup window from C# in a web part? I did a lot of rese...
Ken Brey, Technical Director How did you get involved with DMC back in the early days? I met Frank while we were working at a previous employer. We would go to lunch at Sorrento’s on Friday’s and bounce ideas off of each other...