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DMC Office Update: Whassup in Houston?

DMC has an all company meeting every month where everyone in our regional offices and our Chicago office gets together via video conferencing or in person to share knowledge, introduce new employees to the company, celebrate anniversaries, and t...


Easy Alarm Generation in RSLogix and FactoryTalk View Studio ME

Manually adding alarms in FactoryTalk View can be tedious. When you have a system with lots and lots of devices, as DMC often does, this can become nearly impossible. That’s why during one of our annual FedEx days, DMC engineers built a custom ...


Redundancy in WinCC + Process Historian Connection

Certain control systems require operation 24/7, 365. That is: these systems should always be in action! In such applications, a fault in the controller or computer could prove disastrous. Therefore, redundant systems are introduced to handle automati...


How To Make a Simple Time-lapse IP Web Camera Using a Raspberry Pi

When it comes to capturing time-lapse videos, there are numerous off-the-shelf solutions and libraries out there. For last year’s FedEx Day project, I decided to implement a minimalist solution on a Raspberry Pi using only the default imag...


Tips for Importing Allen-Bradley Tags into an InTouch HMI

Creating tags in a Wonderware InTouch HMI project that connect to your Allen-Bradley PLC is quick and easy for small projects. However, on projects with hundreds or thousands of tags, it can become time consuming! To speed up this proces...


DMC Quote Board - January 2019

Visitors to DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board," documenting the best engineering jokes and employee one-liners of the moment.


An Eggnog Toast with DMC St. Louis

For the past several years, we at DMC have come together to toast the end of the year with eggnog. As we have expanded, this tradition has grown too. What started in Chicago has grown to include all our regional offices. This year, everyone got to...


DMC Office Update: Elf - A DMC Feature Film

At the beginning of each month, all DMC offices call in for an all-company meeting. During this meeting, we share knowledge and information on projects, introduce new employees, celebrate anniversaries and give office updates.  Everyone ...


DMC to Lead "Dashboard in a Day" for a Second Time

After leading a Power BI "Dashboard in a Day" workshop last November, Microsoft has invited DMC back to lead a second workshop. On February 21, 2019, Senior Consultant Michael Dannemiller will lead the Power BI hands-on training wor...


DMC Time Travels to the Last Speakeasy

The year was 1933. The men sported their suspenders and fedoras, and the women dressed in their fancy flapper attire. It was also the official ending of the very unpopular Prohibition era, and everyone was celebrating and imbibing whatever ...


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