The Daktronics Experience

Justin and Matt are joined once again by Shannon Mutchelknaus, engineering manager of Daktronics Laboratory Services Group, as well as Nick Casstevens, Daktronics lab technician, to go in-depth about EMI – Electromagnetic Interference. What does it mean and what should you know about how it affects LED displays? Also, learn what Daktronics does to test for it so you know you’re in compliance.

• Laboratory Services webpage - www.daktronics.com/reliability 

While billboards are nothing new, digital billboards are becoming more accepted and used in our society. As such, Justin and Matt had a conversation with Chad Harris, Owner of Las Vegas Billboards, about his experiences in the OOH industry including how he got started, how he’s using his inventory of digital billboards and a few interesting stories from working in Las Vegas.

Links:

• Las Vegas Billboards website: lasvegasbillboards.com/

Safety at Daktronics isn’t focused solely on the manufacturing floor. It’s everything from OSHA regulations to installation safe practices to behavioral changes to ensure safety at every Daktronics office and installation site around the globe. Justin and Matt are visited by Albert Patin, Joel DeBoer and Scott Peterson – all members of the Daktronics safety team – to discuss safety, making safety presentations fun and engaging, and how they’ve seen safety standards change firsthand.

In today’s society, digital signage is all around us. That’s why Justin and Matt sat down with Seth Koch and Bill Hadsell to talk about Digital Media Networks and how Daktronics fits into the picture. Seth is a sales engineer and Bill is a project manager covering Daktronics digital media solutions. They share their insight into these types of systems, how they work, how versatile they are and the multiple applications where these systems are being used.

Links:

• Contact Seth: [email protected] 

Shannon Mutschelknaus, engineering manager of Daktronics Laboratory Services Group, is back on the podcast with Justin and Matt to talk more about product and component testing. This time the focus is on the qualification testing of completed products and modules before the final installation for customers. While we do that in house, we also send it off for third-party qualification to ensure the accuracy of those tests. Sometimes, those tests involve things that are beyond realistic for everyday applications.  

• Reliability Lab webpage: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/learning-and-resources/product-reliability-lab

Football season doesn’t start for Daktronics when the ball is kicked off. Dustin Culhane, Daktronics Account Service Manager, joins Justin and Matt to explain how our season starts much earlier. Similar to the teams, we’re preparing for the games ahead of time doing preseason checks of our equipment on site. We also do pre-event checks as well as providing event support throughout the game. Dustin also shares some of the sites he’ll be visiting this year and talks about a friendly rivalry between him and Matt dating back to their college days.

• Daktronics Services webpage for football system support: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/support/sports/football

We try to make it well-known that Daktronics has a reliability lab where we test our products and components past the point of failure. So, in this podcast, we talk with Shannon Mutschelknaus, engineering manager of Daktronics Laboratory Services Group, to give some clarification into what we actually test behind the scenes. This episode focuses Development Testing where we focus on components and parts before we use them in our products.

• Reliability Lab webpage: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/learning-and-resources/product-reliability-lab

Justin and Matt sit down with Joni Schmeichel and Chaz Fuhrman, strategic marketer and sales for Daktronics OOH, respectively. They cover the topic of Digital Out of Home (DOOH) including the advertising trends associated with DOOH, some things to consider from both the display owner and advertiser perspective, and other fun things they’ve seen from the DOOH industry. They also mention how DOOH affects the routine drive to work and a child riding in the back seat of a car.

• Daktronics OOH webpage: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/markets/out-of-home-advertising

A lot goes into the installation of LED video displays from structural support to electrical engineering. When building a new display system, working with the Daktronics design build process helps create a partnership to ensure all of these areas are covered while saving time and money. Todd Rose, Daktronics Project Engineer and Business Development, joins Justin and Matt to talk about the design build process and share some of his experiences over the years.

• Design build webpage: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/services/design-build-services

Putting on a show for college football can be chaotic and require a lot of preparation. Katie Windham, Daktronics on-site event producer at James Madison University, joins Justin and Matt to share how she’s embraced the chaos of game-day productions. She also shares how she prepares, how she got to where she is today and other information about producing a live event.

• JMU winning kick vs Weber State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-i5hJ3lAc0