Entries for 'Carolyn Holthouse'
What’s the best way to practice our core values of hiring smart people, sharing information, and having fun? If you thought “join a bar trivia league,” you would be absolutely correct!
What started as a fun evening activity ...
Fall arrived promptly in Chicago, with temperatures dropping from 80o and sunny to 50o and overcast almost overnight. The official change in seasons prompted some internal debates on the truest “fall flavor,” acceptable uses of pumpk...
DMC’s time-honored tradition of Yearly Office Events (or YOE’s, pronounced in a variety of ways throughout DMC) took a pause last year due to some unprecedented times. The squad was disappointed, but we found ways to get together virtuall...
My team and I were tasked with creating a chart to visualize cam profile data for a recent project. The project involved making updates to a Siemens Comfort Panel HMI program, including four cammed axes. Our client wanted the ability to adjust a...
With Omron hardware and Sysmac Studio, there are many options for configuring a connection to your PLC. Omron NJ PLCs have both an Ethernet port and a USB port that can be used to connect and go online with your controller. This blog will help y...
DMC’s annual ski trip is the oldest Yearly Office Event. Recent YOE trips also include the first annual Seattle trip in the Pacific North West, a nostalgic summer camp-themed outing outside of Chicago, and a DMC East Coast adventure in Rhode Is...
When working on-site recently, I was challenged with configuring translations for several Siemens PLC & HMI projects. After many rounds of trial and error, I was finally able to track down every location where text was being stored in my project....
In a company full of Smart People who love to Share Information, there is no shortage of opportunities to continue learning and developing professionally at DMC. As a company, we take pride in our culture of teamwork; through our mentorship prog...
A steady increase in manufacturing facilities in the Greater Tahoe Area has given many DMC engineers the opportunity to spend some time in Reno, NV. When spending an extended period away from our home office, we like to bring more of our favorite tra...