Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. In this video, Han shares her favorite Chicago hot spots as well as the most rewarding part of her job as a Sy...
At DMC, an opportunity for a healthy dose of competition never goes untapped. Our annual participation in the Shamrock Shuffle 8k is always a good excuse to get our competitive muscles burning (and our real muscles too). DMC employees have been runni...
Beckhoff visited the DMC Chicago office not long ago in order to demo some cool automation equipment. Many of us are already familiar with Beckhoff’s products, but it was really valuable to be able to take a step back from working with the equi...
In my experience, the most widespread issues that occur for both DMC users and our external customers, happen while using Microsoft Outlook. This is partially due to the fact that Outlook is quite possibly, the most important application and definite...
Object-relational mappings (ORMs) took the world by storm in the mid-aughts. Obviously there are many advantages to ORMs given their success, but there are some drawbacks. I'll explain one particular hurdle that I ran into as well as the steps I ...
A few years ago, DMC entered the world of 3D printing by building a Thing-O-Matic. This printer was... special in that it contained a lot of questionable design decisions, but it allowed us to do something amazing. We could create 3 dimensional objec...
Anyone living in the Midwest will agree that this winter has been full of too much snow and cold weather. So, when the Chicago Cider Summit was announced, we DMCers just couldn’t let go of the chance to warm up the winter. On this typic...
Design, User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) have become more relevant in our technology-driven world than ever before. To help you better understand this both subjective and objective field of study, DMC has created a video series to teach y...
When writing a vision application, it’s easy to imagine noise within an image as a sinister character hiding in the shadows and fingering the end of a grease-slick mustache. "That’s a nice straight line you have there," his voic...
Having moved to Boston from the Midwest, I've been really excited to explore New England. One of the things I've enjoyed the most has been the rich history of the Massachusettes Bay area. From Walden Pond and John Adams' Peacefield home t...