Entries for 'Jesse Batsche'

With the weather in Chicago finally breaking and summer now in full swing, several DMC engineers have recently joined forces to form a beach volleyball team, Spike DMC.  While DMC has had several company teams in soccer and other sports leagues in the past, and participated in an indoor sand volleyball league last fall, this is the first time DMC has made an appearance on a beach volleyball c... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Upon first seeing the automated Battery Management System Test Stand DMC recently developed, people tended to ask the same question: "Why is it so tall?" .  Here are three good answers for why DMC deliberately choose that structure to benefit the customer in the long term.

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DMC has recently developed a set of versatile, powerful, time-saving, and customizable web parts to utilize in our SharePoint dashboard solutions.  These tools provide a huge array of ways to visualize data and KPI's critical to a company's operation in a way that is simple and easy to interpret.   Here are some of the major benefits of this new web part architecture:   ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Norton Ghost's mulitcast cloning utility proved to be an effective way to reduce install and setup time on multiple identical PC based test stands running a custom LabVIEW test application.  The stored hard drive images were also very useful in the field for restoring the test stand to a known, clean operating state.

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The LabVIEW Merge utility provides a way to compare your version of a VI, another developer's conflicting version, and the base version and from these create a merged version that incorporates the desired modifications.  This article contains step by step instructions for using the tool with TortoiseSVN version control software

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The Devcon command line utility is a versatile and powerful way to execute system level operations on any device connected to a computer.  It proved particularly useful for implementing a rescue strategy for unresponsive USB devices in a long term testing application.

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Over the course of NI Week in Austin, National Instruments gradually introduced and demonstrated the new features that are being implemented in the LabVIEW 2009 release.  Many were logical steps forward in hardware and software development, some were long awaited and often requested functionalities or improvements, and a few were completely unexpected new features that were greeted with ooohs... [Read the rest of this blog...]

On April 21, Eric Nielsen, Darren Jones, and I attended National Instruments LabVIEW Developer Day, an all day event which included intermediate and advanced Labview training sessions, discussions of best practices for developing applications, and networking with other LabVIEW developers.

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