Frank May

07/06/2016

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DMC joined 324 other Boston companies to run the Corporate Challenge 3.5 mile race on June 9th, 2016. The race sold-out with a total of 9,475 particpants. Although DMC made up just 6 of those participants, DMC was the only company that had ...

Frank May

06/29/2016

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After DMC Boston's 20th Anniversary party, everyone took off to Cape Cod for the weekend for the Boston team's Yearly Office Event (YOE). The YOE is an opportunity for DMC employees to meet near one of DMC's locations for a trip planned b...

Frank May

06/21/2016

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Each month, DMC has a monthly company meeting where everyone from across the country meets in person or via video conference. The meetings are a great way to share knowledge, introduce new employees, celebrate anniversaries, and talk about where DMC ...

Frank May

04/18/2016

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FANUC offers an easy way to command and configure a robot from a PC using their PC Developer's Kit (PCDK).The kit allows a PC to access variables, registers, IO, programs, positions, and alarms on the robot. Most of the help documentation already...

Frank May

02/18/2016

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For one of our office parties, DMC's Boston office made an automatic bartender by utilizing industrial automation equipment. Before we disassembled it, we made a '90s style infomercial. The blog linked above has much more detail on how we ...

Frank May

11/17/2015

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Even though you want Fanuc robots to be as autonomous as possible, you sometimes need operators to interact with your robots and need a simple interface for that. Using third party HMIs to communicate with Fanuc Robots is certainly an option, but the...

Frank May

06/01/2015

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There is no global CTRL+F and Replace in  WinCC v7.2 that catches everything at once, but there are a few tools that can help you accomplish the same thing.  Let’s say we have a picture for Robot Defense. This picture has tags, tex...

Frank May

03/18/2015

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Android Studio is Google's free IDE for making Android apps and replaces Eclipse as the primary IDE for making Android apps.  In this less than 10 minute video, I'll show you how to: Install Android Studio (along with the J...

Frank May

03/16/2015

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The DMC Boston Office decided to spoof an episode of 'The Office'.   In this episode of The DMC Office, Liz wants a cat and Jason comes up with a good way to see if a cat is right for the office. Learn more about DMC's comp...

Frank May

10/07/2014

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DMC traveled to Acadia National Park for a weekend full of nature, sunrises and fire. The trip there took about five hours, but we passed the time with podcasts, Pandora and checking out the fantastic foliage. Fall was just around the corner for Bost...