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Entries for April 2011

Robot Dancing - Teaching Robots to Heal

When, besides in children’s cartoons (and my Christmas blogs), do you ever get to see robots dancing? At the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry! This past week I had another opportunity to check out cutting edge robotics at the museum. T...


Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board."  This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.  For those who aren't able to keep updated on our quotes in-person we will be sho...


Team DMC: Shamrock Shuffle 2011

As many of our friends and acquaintances may already know, DMC has a long standing tradition of competing together in athletic endeavors. Shamrock Shuffle is one of those endeavors and one that personally means a lot to me. When I started a...


DMC to Present at CSIA's 2011 Executive Conference

“Inspiring Performance” is the theme of the 2011 Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA) Executive Conference being held in Orlando, Florida April 27 - April 30. DMC's Director of Consulting Services, Rick Rietz, will be leadin...


Geek Challenge Results: A Weighty Egg-sercise

I hope you had a good time hunting for the solution to the Easter Egg Stumper.  The challenge was to most efficiently identify one peanut-butter Easter egg from a group of 11 identical chocolate eggs knowing only that the peanut-butter egg weigh...


Employee Spotlight: Nick Shea

Nick Shea, Project Engineer What is the most interesting project you have worked on at DMC? I worked on a large factory level startup in China for several months. The technical challenges, cultural challenges, and linguistic challenges made it ...


Application Programming with Yaskawa’s A1000 Inverter Drives

I recently had the opportunity to spend a few days at Yaskawa America’s North American headquarters to sit in on an A1000 Application Programming class. As a Yaskawa Solution and Service Provider PLUS, many DMC engineers have extensive app...


DMC's Newsletter Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

Last month, the DMC Monthly Update celebrated its first anniversary. It's been our pleasure to bring you DMC news and insight in our Monthly Update for the past year.  We've found the newsletter to be a fun way to communicate recent comp...