Entries for December 2015
Those familiar with American history will remember a dark time in our past – the era of Prohibition, beginning in 1920, where the production, transport, and sale of alcohol was made illegal by the Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Const...
PLEASE NOTE: This blog was written using features available in TIA Portal V13 SP1 Update 1. Some of the functionality shown was removed in Update 3, specifically the ability to multiplex UDTs. Hopefully the rest of the information will be still be he...
Every company needs a great team of support staff to keep things going, and DMC is no exception. Our recruiting strategy and core value of Hiring Smart People applies not only to our engineers, but to everyone at DMC. This includes our Administrative...
I recently installed KB3072333, which is labeled as “Update 1.1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015”. Afterwards, a specific change to the Outgoing Email Router profile issued a 401 Unauthorized error in the event viewer. I found a ...
For the past few years, as another holiday season passes, I have observed that each holiday felt less and less like I remember. This year, the source of my waning holiday spirit finally dawned on me: I'm an adult now.
I was determined to resto...
Recently I was working on an S7-300 PLC project that required a fairly advanced HMI, so we chose the Comfort Panel to use Faceplates for the many pop-ups and identical controls required. Creating these Faceplates was a great way to increase our produ...
DMC has expertise in both industrial and PC-based software development. In other words, we do a great deal of projects involving PLCs; but we also write plenty of complex PC-based apps. But my personal favorites are projects that combine the two.
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Each month, everyone at meets for DMC an all-company meeting. We share experiences, discuss company goals, and celebrate accomplishments. One of the most anticipated parts of the DMC monthly company meetings, however, are the office update ...
DMC had a lunch problem. When noon rolled around, someone would inevitably decide they wanted to go to Chipotle. They’d get up from their desk and circle around the office, asking everyone they saw if they wanted to jump on the Chipotle train. ...
With the release of the new Star Wars film right around the corner, Denver decided to film a themed video for our December update. I wanted it to be a parody video: Lucasfilm™ logo, scrolling text, the works (and, of course, to feature Blue, th...