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SECS4Hosts is a Microsoft® ActiveX® control and set of COM components that give your host applications the ability to communicate with any SECS-compliant equipment. Using best practices for Microsoft Windows® technology, SECS4Hosts enables fast integration with your host application and fast equipment interface development, yet we’ve maintained the flexibility you need to handle the unique SECS messages frequently encountered in equipment interfaces today.
As an ActiveX control, SECS4Hosts can be used in Visual Basic®, Visual C ®, or any other compatible ActiveX container. Such programming environments simplify interface design, speed development, and make integration with third-party tools and applications much easier.
For fast and complete integration with your host application, we expose the underlying SECS4Hosts COM components you can use in any COM-capable language, including the .NET languages.
With no need to write COM wrappers around libraries or to build functionality right into your communications driver, you can immediately start using the SECS4Hosts object model to develop robust host applications.
And, because using forms in background applications is not recommended in Visual Basic and is very complex in C , the SECS4Hosts COM components provide a significant advantage. The best part is, your host application needs to know nothing about the SECS interface on the equipment. It just needs to use the methods, events, and data required to do its job.
The enabling technology for rapid equipment integration is the Transaction Editor, an easy-to use configuration tool for setting up the messages and data items your equipment supports.
Instead of coding these formats in your application, you simply reference the XML configuration file created for the equipment by the Transaction Editor.
The Transaction Editor gives you the option of creating your configuration file
All you need to do is modify the standard formats to fit your particular machine characterization. If you are setting up GEM-compliant equipment, your configuration file will be ready in a matter of minutes.
To get a quick start on your project, you can start developing specific equipment configuration files prior to completing integration with your host application.
If your equipment has additional functionality that uses non-standard messages, you can use the Transaction Editor to create new SECS-II messages and data items that fit your equipment’s unique characterization.
You can also use the editor to update your equipment’s configuration at any time. This lets you implement SECS communications on an as-needed basis and respond to changing data collection needs with speed and simplicity.
This configuration information is stored in an XML file that can be modified easily, shared with other applications, and used to document your equipment characterization. Once you create the XML configuration file for a piece of equipment, you can reference it from any application that uses the SECS4Hosts control. You can also develop a single application for all equipment of the same type and simply use the appropriate XML file for each equipment interface.
SECS4Hosts has many features that make it easy to integrate with your host applications.
Windows NT® 4, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
E04 SECS-I E05 SECS-II E30 GEM E37 HSMS
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