Ken Brey

05/27/2009

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Purpose-built 3D scanning tools are an exciting new development in machine vision. People have been building their own 3D scanners for years with cameras and line lasers. Now, a couple of integrated and factory-calibrated units are on the market w...

Darren Jones

05/26/2009

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Underscoring DMC's successes with National Instruments and the US Department of Energy, the Fermilab newsletter from NI featured DMC's work in electrochemical storage test systems at the Argonne National Laboratory. "Internationally r...

Kristie Simon Shea

05/22/2009

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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 current...

Nick Shea

05/21/2009

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Yesterday, I attended the 2009 Energy Management Seminar presented by Schneider Electric. The seminar focused on strategies and technologies to monitor and improve energy efficiency. The keynote speaker, Peter Garforth, made a compelling case for ...

Jody Koplo

05/19/2009

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DMC sponsored Northwestern University's Design Competition once again this year and the turnout and competition were once again amazing. What Went Down? The competition included 12 fully autonomous robots competing head-to-head in a challen...

Frank Riordan

05/15/2009

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A Solar Panel Assembly Project that DMC recently completed was the basis for a feature article in Design World Magazine. The article can be found here. DMC provided controls engineering and programming services for a company that makes machines th...

Frank Riordan

05/15/2009

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LISTEN! I previously wrote about our first Customer Service Fundamental - Always Remember the Importance of the Customer. Today I am going to write about our 2nd customer service fundamental - Listen. Until about a year ago I had never explicit...

Darren Jones

05/14/2009

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Congratulations to Eric Nielsen and Jesse Batsche on passing the certification exam to be LabVIEW Certified Associate Developers! They had the opportunity to take this exam at the National Instruments Developer Education Days event here in Chicago...

Frank Riordan

05/11/2009

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DMC has always had an implicit customer driven culture - a do whatever-it-takes attitude to deliver to our customers. There are countless examples of over and above effort - working through the night, marathon weeks (or sometimes months) to get a pro...

Ken Brey

05/07/2009

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This blog will cover how DMC increased the speed of a rate-limiting process step for the ThyssenKrupp Waupaca foundry. It will cover the following: Construct a basic motion model with a spreadsheet. Optimize a non-linear motion profile to mat...