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DMC Receives DEI Award from Rockwell Automation

DMC was proud to receive Rockwell Automation’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award at the 2025 PartnerNetwork Conference on April 3 in Los Angeles.  The DEI Award honors a Rockwell partner that has made DEI part of its business ...


MagneMotion Guide Part 10: Moving Track

Typically, a MagneMotion track is designed to fit a 2D profile, the track might turn left or right but not up or down. While this is sufficient for most MagneMotion applications, sometimes systems are designed to lift or move MagneMotion track o...


Join Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk Optix Webinar on August 14

Rockwell Automation is hosting their third and final webinar in a series about their latest HMI solution: FactoryTalk Optix. The webinar, called Part Three: Operators Empowered, will take place on August 14 at 10 a.m. CT. Part Three: Ope...


Programming a PLC to be a Game Console

PLC Code This past week, I took on the challenge of turning one of our IO demo kits connected to a Siemens PLC into a working game system. I chose to program the classic games Bop It and Simon Says as they would be easy to understand while still p...


FactoryTalk Optix Series 3 - NetLogic Overview and Examples

HMI Programming and SCADA Programming are essential for creating efficient and responsive automation systems. When working with Optix, leveraging NetLogic allows for seamless integration between C# code and the SCADA environment, enabling advanced co...


FactoryTalk Optix Series 2 - Variables, Attributes, Dynamic Links, and Converters

Overview Variables, Attributes, Dynamic Links, and converters are the building blocks of Optix UI design. Each variable has a number of attributes associated with it, and Dynamic links and Converters can be used to define a relationship between tw...


Rockwell Webinar Series - Revitalize Your HMI Operations

Rockwell Automation is hosting three webinars about their latest HMI solution: FactoryTalk Optix. The first is available as a recording, the second is on May 8th, and the last is on August 14th. Webinar Details "Learn how the FactoryT...


FactoryTalk Optix Series 1 - Getting Started with FactoryTalk Optix

FactoryTalk Optix is the next generation of visualization software from Rockwell Automation, meant to provide a higher degree of customized development with its integrated C# support and flexibility for HMI and SCADA applications. This blog series...


Triggering Popups and Display Changes in FactoryTalk View Site Edition from the PLC

Whether you are migrating from Machine Edition or working with FactoryTalk View for the first time, triggering displays or popups from the PLC in Site Edition is non-trivial. In this blog post, we are going to discuss how to use Visual Basic to our a...


Setting Up Dynamic Navigation in FactoryTalk View SE

Setting up static navigation buttons that bring operators to a single screen when pressed can be sufficient for simple systems; however, it can be difficult to adequately display all necessary screen elements for larger or more complex systems. ...


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