Jessica Mlinaric

03/11/2019

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DMC is a finalist for Crain's Chicago Business' annual list of Best Places to Work in Chicago. This program recognizes the companies rated highest by their employees. The list of 100 Chicago companies was announced in an a...

Serena Shah-Simpson

03/10/2019

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For the past few years, DMC New York and DMC Boston have teamed together for a ski trip to Vermont, which we have lovingly dubbed DMSkeast (a nod to our Denver office’s annual event, DMSki). It's a great chance to relax and spend some time ...

Jeff McCormick

03/05/2019

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Exciting news – DMC has a new partner! We are officially a part of the Kepware/PTC partner program. What is Kepware? Kepware is a leading software development business of PTC Inc that focuses on helping you connect, access, and control yo...

Jessica Mlinaric

03/01/2019

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Visitors to DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board," documenting the best engineering jokes and employee one-liners of the moment. Learn more about DMC's company culture.  

Rick Rietz

02/27/2019

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Two of DMC's Digital Workplace Solutions team members led another fantastic Dashboard in a Day event this month. DMC partnered with Microsoft to deliver the workshop, which took place at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago. Th...

Zachary Gracia

02/26/2019

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The built-in high-speed counters on Siemens PLCs are very useful for applications in which a machine needs to move material a specified distance. In these instances, the scan time of the program can add inconsistency to this distance. Reduce this ...

Kyle Mitchell

02/26/2019

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You’re looking for a job. Perhaps you’re in college and preparing to graduate, maybe you’re just out of college, or perhaps you’ve been working for a few years and you’re looking for a change of pace. Whatever your ...

Rick Rietz

02/25/2019

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DMC has now led the Dashboard in a Day Power BI workshop twice in Chicago and has a workshop scheduled on March 27 in St. Louis. Microsoft has invited DMC back again to lead yet another another Power BI workshop in Chicago. On March 19, 2019, Seni...

Nic John

02/24/2019

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In a recent project, we needed to set up communication between a PC running LabView and a Siemens S7-1500 PLC. Thankfully, Siemens provides the LCom communications library, shown below, for setting up TCP communications on SIMATIC S7-300/400, SIMATIC...

Sophia Dolan

02/22/2019

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Energid’s Actin SDK is a C++ robotic control toolkit that can be used to model and simulate almost any type of manipulator. Users can define a robotic system, specify tasks and constraints (such as dynamic collision avoidance), and the Actin sy...