Entries for 'Kristie Simon Shea'

Successful Implementation of Siemens' SiMotion Shaftless Drive Standard
In many industries, shaftless drive technology has replaced the old mechanical drive systems. Instead of using mechanical gearing to force one axis on a machine to follow another one, servos are used. The servo technology reduces many of the flaws of a large mechanical gearing system as well as provides a lot of flexibility. This technology is in heavy use in industries such as the automotive, pac... [Read the rest of this blog...]
University of Illinois Job Shadowing Program a Success
Last Wednesday DMC hosted Karan Talati, a freshman Mechanical Engineering major, as a part of the University of Illinois Job Shadowing program. The program is designed for freshman or sophomore engineering students to spend a day with an engineering company to learn about a specific industry. Throughout the day, Karan rotated spending time with many different engineers learning about the projects ... [Read the rest of this blog...]
Check out our new Case Studies!

We have added a few new Case Studies that showcase two of the business areas in which we recently have had a number of projects: Sharepoint Development and Battery Testing.

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Siemens Simatic S7-300- Retaining Values When Downloading a Datablock

A simple yet common problem when programming a Siemens Simatic S7-300 PLC is losing the data already stored in the PLC after downloading an updated data block.

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During this past week, DMC had the opportunity to work with Kevin Johnson of ILF Technologies at the DMC office. ILF, located in Romeoville, IL, produces web finishing products for the printing and converting industries.  The machine we are currently working on is a new Sheeter which runs on Siemens' SIMOTION platform.  Kevin is intimately familiar with the functionality of the existing ... [Read the rest of this blog...]