Today as I am writing this, it is the morning of Manufacturing Day, October 7th 2016. My personal reaction to this day, which is described by MFGDAY as: MFG DAY addresses common misperceptions about manufacturing by giving manufacturers an opportunity to open their doors and show, in a coordinated effort, what manufacturing is — and what it isn’t. By working together during … [Read more...]
Beyond the Shop Floor: Manufacturing Advocates Podcast
One thing you will quickly discover if you get to know people in the manufacturing industry is how busy they are. I guess it should be no surprise that they stalwarts of their local communities in terms of jobs and direct economic output. How so? We'll address that shortly. People in the industry seem to juggle so many balls that they are unable to participate in things like … [Read more...]
Upgrading CIMCO MDM
If you landed on this article on your own, you may want to confirm the instructions are valid for your MDM installation, some newer versions have new features that require a little configuration such as Client Sets (see Changes in CIMCO MDM 9 for an example). We often generate content for our customers and share it for informational purposes on the website. If you did not land … [Read more...]
Moxa Nport Settings for DNC Max
CIMCO DNC-Max works with Moxa devices right out of the box. In most cases you only need to assign an IP address and assign that to the port in DNC-Max. There are occasions where some settings need to be tweaked and this article is for those occasions where we call on our customers to change these settings. Optional Moxa Nport Data Packing Settings If we have called upon … [Read more...]
How to change the default load and save path in CIMCO Editor 7 or 8
A CIMCO Editor user recently contacted us after they noticed the default load path, the one that CIMCO Editor uses when you click "Open" had changed. This was causing them to have to change it each and every time they went to open a file. Normally, a setting like this would automatically save to the last state, but there are times where this may not be the case. Also some users … [Read more...]
Migrating from CIMCO Edit V7 to V8
You've probably heard that CIMCO V8 is out, now many of you are eager to get to work using this latest version of CIMCO software. Many of our users do extensive customization to CIMCO Editor to maximize their productivity, those settings are completely compatible with the newer version. For today we will focus on upgrading V7 to V8 while keeping your current settings. The … [Read more...]