Jody Koplo

06/11/2010

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 DMC has once again sponsored the Northwestern Design Competition. Design Competition is a contest that occurs every year at Northwestern and pits fully autonomous robots against each other to accomplish a specific task. This year that task was ...

Jessica Mlinaric

05/26/2010

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Jody Koplo, Project Engineer    You are one of DMC’s four Certified LabVIEW Architects.  Describe the process for attaining that status. It is the top level of certification that National Instruments offers for LabVIEW develo...

Matt Puskala

05/20/2010

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It is quite typical for companies to outsource their embedded design and other electronic and board design needs to other firms. Sometimes companies have innovative ideas they want to bring to market but not the internal electronics expertise, someti...

Matt Puskala

05/20/2010

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Over the past few months we have added many new case studies to our website. We are continuously adding more examples of broad experience across industries and technical fields. Some of these are recent projects while others are past projects that we...

Eric Nielsen

05/19/2010

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Here at DMC, we do a considerable amount of work for manufacturers and test laboratories who specialize in lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, and other cutting edge energy generation and storage technologies. This work has fueled the development of m...

Rick Rietz

05/03/2010

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Beginning a Microsoft SharePoint Portal implementation is exciting, as it holds great promise to deliver value to everyone in your organization.  To make your SharePoint Portal project a success, it's important to do some up front planning. ...

Rick Rietz

04/28/2010

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Microsoft has just released SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint 2010.  In this video blog, I provide an introduction to Microsoft SharePoint and break down the key features and differences between the currently supported versions of SharePoint:...

Eric Nielsen

04/27/2010

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In RT-101: Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), I provided readers with a brief description of the many benefits that systems running an RTOS can provide in harsh and demanding environments. The bigger question is: in an industry saturated by PLCs (Pr...

Brent Hoerman

04/26/2010

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I'm not sure if anyone else remembers taking typing tests. I know I do, and not fondly either. While no fun to take, they serve a valuable purpose to a would-be employer. If you are going to pay someone to complete tasks that involve entering tex...

Leon Grossman

04/26/2010

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I recently implemented a project where we were using a SICK Ranger camera to measure a part. This camera works by measuring the position of light from a line generating laser on its 2D field of view and translating that to a height position. This wor...