Entries for 'Jason Mayes'
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...
While working with a customer on a recent RSLogix 5000 project (now called Studio 5000), there was a need to protect some proprietary source code. In this particular case, DMC had developed a custom Add-On Instruction (AOI) to be used within the proj...
Following the time honored tradition of holding our annual Holiday Party weeks (if not months) after the Holidays, we finally held our first ever DMC Boston Holiday Party last weekend. With a smaller group, we decided to do something a little more in...
After a few months as members of the DMC Boston team, we finally gave Adam, Bill and Frank a proper DMC welcome. We found a time when everyone was in town to head over to SkyZone, an indoor trampoline park, for some team-building fun....
After a few months in Massachusetts, DMC Boston decided it was time to try a true New England tradition: the clambake. In addition to many of us having never heard of a clambake, we had two great reasons to celebrate. First, we were really happy...
DMC Boston is open and growing fast. For the first few weeks, it was a rather small contingent of dedicated engineers braving the gloomy clouds of sheetrock dust and suddenly jarring pings of demolition hammers. However, with the end of demolition ca...
It can sometimes be a challenge to create good looking User Interfaces in LabVIEW – or at least UIs that don’t look like they were built in LabVIEW. One of the easiest ways to make your UIs look a little flashier is to add custom buttons ...
A few weeks ago I had the chance to experiment with serial communications using a Siemens S7-1200 PLC outfitted with a CM1241 (RS-485 module). Due to the limited number of projects we've had using the 1200 line of PLCs, this was an office first. ...
Today, I found myself setting up some simple point-to-point serial communication on a Siemens S7-1200. For the current application, I was writing a simple function block to broadcast data to a Red Lion serial slave display, but there are a varie...
Everybody loves a surprise party!
As Jessica blogged about just the other day, DMC just celebrated our 16th Anniversary. As we have for several years, this is usually commemorated with a quick blog post looking back on the previous year or reflect...