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Entries for August 2014

DMC to Present at Global Automation and Manufacturing Summit

View Matt's presentation on Industrial Automation and Modern Connectivity. Join DMC on Wednesday, September 10 for the Global Automation and Manufacturing Summit held at McCormick Place, West Building, W190. The Global Automation and Manufactu...


High-Speed Vision Inspection Presentation at NIWeek 2014

This year at National Instrument's annual conference, NIWeek, DMC was invited to present on "Real-world Techniques in High-Speed Vision Inspection." DMC is an NI Silver Alliance member with a specialization in vision. Ken Brey and I are...


DMC Named an SI Giant of 2014 by Control Engineering

DMC was recently recognized in the August 2014 issue of Control Engineering as one of 100 System Integrator Giants. The SI Giants 2014 are a part of a larger catalogue of SIs catalogued by both Control Engineering and Plant Engineering, which they du...


LabVIEW Interface: Boolean Graphics

LabVIEW is a graphical programming language in many ways. In this blog post I'll focus on the User Interface (UI) aspect of the LabVIEW language and explain how to deviate from it's traditional palette graphical elements. Specifically I'l...


Troubleshooting Your Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 Timers

I've done a lot of PLC programming over the last few years. Siemens, Rockwell, Beckhoff, Mitsubishi, Panasonic... if it's IEC61131-3 compliant, I've probably written a few rungs on it. However, I recently ran across an interesting problem...


DMC Campus Career Fair Tour 2014

It's the start of a new school year and that means career fair season has returned! DMC has come a long way since last fall. With two new workplace awards under our belt, including Crain's Best Places To Work in Chicago, one new office in Den...


DMC Hosts Chicago LabVIEW UserGroup Meeting on August 28

DMC will be hosting the Chicagoland LabVIEW User's Group meeting on Thursday, August 28, 2014. Our agenda this year includes a variety of database and LabVIEW related material. We'll begin by discussing the challenges of data mining and ...


NI Week 2014 Recap

DMC had a great time at NI Week 2014, held in Austin, Texas. The convention was a chance for those working in the fields of engineering and science to come together and learn about new National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW technology, as well as ...


The Lord of the Rings Meets the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

At DMC we pride ourselves on our geeky interests and obsessions. So, when someone mentioned in a weekly company status meeting that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was going to be at Ravinia Theater to play the soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The...


DMC Comic: Engineers Go to the Movies

Engineers are known for being serious about their work, but we leave plenty of room for laughs. At DMC, we have a fondness for humor of the geeky variety. This month our group of engineers headed to the movies. Post your ideas of where our enginee...


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