David Simmons

09/11/2009

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Recently one of DMC's customers, LTS Scale, issued a press release describing the first fork-truck-mounted dimensional weighing system. DMC worked closely with this customer from the first stages of research through the development of the system ...

Jon Carson

09/08/2009

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Once you are familiar with their capabilities and methodologies, Siemens PLCs have the potential to make controls programming quicker and easier than ever. With support for function blocks, text-based programming, libraries, and user defined types, S...

Benjamin Zeinz

09/08/2009

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When developing a SharePoint solution, there are many choices of development environments to get the job done, but they are not all equal. Once you’ve figured out the purpose of the page, how many web-parts are required for that purpose, and...

Jessica Mlinaric

09/08/2009

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This content was originally published by Eric Anderson as a white paper.  Overview This blog describes a procedure for translating a state transition diagram or sequential function chart into a ladder diagram. Ladder diagrams are available...

Tim Jager

09/06/2009

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Check out the nifty new code syntax highlighter we've added to the blog.  This will make it much easier for us to post code snippets. Here's a sample c# function that is automatically formatted. Also note the handy tools on the upper rig...

Ken Brey

09/04/2009

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For purposes of ghosting SysPrepped PC's it could be important to switch Windows XP to AHCI after installing Windows. We have been doing this with our Dell laptops. Our baseline SysPrep image works well on Dell Precision M65's and M4300...

Dan Freve

09/04/2009

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It is well-known that increasing the number of pins on an integrated circuit (IC) increases its cost. To reduce the number of pins, several serial protocols have been developed to transfer data between IC's. One such protocol, I2C, uses only 2 bi...

Ken Brey

09/03/2009

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I have been working on a 3D vision application using the SICK Ranger camera. My application involves precision measurement, so I want to get the best results possible from the equipment. The Ranger came with a Fujinon 35mm lens which focused shar...

Matt Puskala

09/03/2009

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We are happy to announce a new section of our website has gone live: DMC White Papers! We have planned on adding this section ever since we revamped our website four months ago. At this point in time we have two white papers. First there is Ken Br...

Matt Puskala

09/02/2009

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Author's Notes: This blog is from my undergraduate Senior Thesis Project at Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering and Management Institute) published in early 2002. This thesis received "Passed with Distinct...