The SECS/GEM protocol is complicated compared with PLC-based factory communications. With SECS4Hosts®, you can simplify the development of a host-side SECS or SECS/GEM driver. SECS4Hosts is all about speed. It's simply the fastest way to give your Windows host applications the ability to communicate with any SECS-compliant equipment.

As a Microsoft® ActiveX® control, you can use SECS4Hosts in Visual Basic®, Visual C++®, or any other compatible ActiveX container. And, for background applications and services, we expose 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, you can immediately start using the SECS4Hosts object model to develop robust host applications.

To ensure you maintain momentum when integrating with equipment, SECS4Hosts includes a Transaction Editor. Instead of coding message formats in your applications, use the Transaction Editor to configure the messages and data items that your equipment supports. Configuration data is stored in an XML file that can be modified easily, shared with other applications, and used to document your equipment characterization.

For more information about the fastest way to Windows SECS host development, view the SECS4Hosts product overview. [pdf]