Han Yang

03/20/2014

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Anyone living in the Midwest will agree that this winter has been full of too much snow and cold weather. So, when the Chicago Cider Summit was announced, we DMCers just couldn’t let go of the chance to warm up the winter. On this typic...

Bill Sowerwine

03/10/2014

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When writing a vision application, it’s easy to imagine noise within an image as a sinister character hiding in the shadows and fingering the end of a grease-slick mustache. "That’s a nice straight line you have there," his voic...

Jason Mayes

03/07/2014

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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...

Jessica Mlinaric

03/06/2014

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Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. If you're looking for Chicago burger recommendations or Microsoft solutions, David Ufford is your guy...

Jaclyn Bauer

03/03/2014

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Restaurant Week in Chicago was one of the few things that helped us Midwesterners pull through this year’s Polar Vortex. With a line-up of restaurants spanning cuisines from the east of Asia’s influence to the coasts of Peruvian perfectio...

Jason Mayes

03/03/2014

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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...

Grant Anderson

02/21/2014

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String concatenation. If a programming language supports strings, it's going to support concatenating them. The means of doing so are usually straightforward and often times involve a simple library call or even a one character operator such a...

Jessica Mlinaric

02/20/2014

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New beginnings aren't always easy, but DMC aims to welcome new employees by creating a unique starting experience for them. From day one on the job, employees are empowered, invited to dive in to project responsibilities, and greeted by our team&...

Jimmy Condon

02/19/2014

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For a recent project using WinCC Professional V12, I needed to have a pop up window that could change based on the screen window that the operator clicks (motor, VFD, valve, etc.). The popup also needed to have its location change based on where the ...

Jason Mayes

02/17/2014

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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...