Since 1975, Sewell Industrial Electronics (www.sewellelectronics.com),位于肯塔基州路易斯维尔市。已经提供panel construction and control system engineering and commissioning services for industrial clients nearby, as well as for clients located across the world—from Japan to Argentina, Africa, Europe, Russia, Australia, Hawaii, and other parts of the United States. Sewell focuses on electrical and controls engineering implementation of all types of processes. Its applications include material handling, food processing, communications, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), ice machine controllers, test equipment and more.
Steve Osborne, electrical engineer at Sewell, has been developing custom human machine interfaces (HMIs) using Visual Basic 6 for a number of years, in addition to doing traditional HMI applications using off-the-shelf software. He recently began using Visual Studio.NET 2005 for his custom applications and needed to be able to connect to OPC data sources. Making the move from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Studio.NET involved learning a lot of new .NET technologies, and Osborne was seeking a way to shorten that path when it came to connecting Visual Studio.NET 2005 to his OPC data sources.
奥斯本（Osborne）从北卡罗来纳州马修斯（Matthews）的软件工具箱中选择了OPC扩展器产品，因为它使他能够通过“点击点击”将任何对象连接到软件工具箱TOP Server OPC服务器中的OPC数据。他说：“该产品是一个了不起的工具 - 就像他们说的那样。“点，单击，连接”，我可以从我的OPC服务器读取和编写OPC数据。”奥斯本继续说：“我刚刚将OPC扩展器添加到我的Visual Studio.net应用程序中，然后我开始阅读和编写数据，而无需代码。我更喜欢的是，如果我想更深入地自定义行为或扩展功能，那么它们并没有使我无法进入代码并使其达到我想要的工作。通常，当您选择这样的工具时，它是一个或另一个。使用OPC扩展器，我两者都得到。”
In Osborne’s latest application, he is talking to facility monitoring devices in stores. The application uses dial-up modems to connect to the remote stations for real-time monitoring and logging. Osborne used the dial-up capabilities in the TOP Server OPC servers to ease the management of the dial-up connections. Using one instance of the Software Toolbox OPC Extender, he manages the interface between the user choosing the location to dial, and dialing interface in the OPC Server. A second instance then collects the data when he connects to the remote location.
Adds Osborne, “The support from the team at Software Toolbox has also been a key part of my success. Their people have listened to my application needs, continued to expand and enhance the OPC Extender product to meet my needs, and been willing to show me how to best use their tools together in Visual Studio.NET 2005. I feel that with the Software Toolbox OPC Extender and TOP Server together, I have a set of tools that will enable my business to effectively meet our clients’ needs in a more profitable way than if I just wrote all the code for this on my own.”
奥斯本（Osborne）使用Visual Studio.NET 2005使用OPC扩展器和顶级服务器为许多其他项目提供了计划，其中包括设备制造商的模拟器项目。
For more information on OPC solutions from Software Toolbox, visitwww.softwaretoolbox.com/opc.
Steve Osborne, electrical engineer at Sewell, has been developing custom human machine interfaces (HMIs) using Visual Basic 6 for a number of years, in addition to doing traditional HMI applications using off-the-shelf software. He recently began using Visual Studio.NET 2005 for his custom applications and needed to be able to connect to OPC data sources. Making the move from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Studio.NET involved learning a lot of new .NET technologies, and Osborne was seeking a way to shorten that path when it came to connecting Visual Studio.NET 2005 to his OPC data sources.
奥斯本（Osborne）从北卡罗来纳州马修斯（Matthews）的软件工具箱中选择了OPC扩展器产品，因为它使他能够通过“点击点击”将任何对象连接到软件工具箱TOP Server OPC服务器中的OPC数据。他说：“该产品是一个了不起的工具 - 就像他们说的那样。“点，单击，连接”，我可以从我的OPC服务器读取和编写OPC数据。”奥斯本继续说：“我刚刚将OPC扩展器添加到我的Visual Studio.net应用程序中，然后我开始阅读和编写数据，而无需代码。我更喜欢的是，如果我想更深入地自定义行为或扩展功能，那么它们并没有使我无法进入代码并使其达到我想要的工作。通常，当您选择这样的工具时，它是一个或另一个。使用OPC扩展器，我两者都得到。”
In Osborne’s latest application, he is talking to facility monitoring devices in stores. The application uses dial-up modems to connect to the remote stations for real-time monitoring and logging. Osborne used the dial-up capabilities in the TOP Server OPC servers to ease the management of the dial-up connections. Using one instance of the Software Toolbox OPC Extender, he manages the interface between the user choosing the location to dial, and dialing interface in the OPC Server. A second instance then collects the data when he connects to the remote location.
Adds Osborne, “The support from the team at Software Toolbox has also been a key part of my success. Their people have listened to my application needs, continued to expand and enhance the OPC Extender product to meet my needs, and been willing to show me how to best use their tools together in Visual Studio.NET 2005. I feel that with the Software Toolbox OPC Extender and TOP Server together, I have a set of tools that will enable my business to effectively meet our clients’ needs in a more profitable way than if I just wrote all the code for this on my own.”
奥斯本（Osborne）使用Visual Studio.NET 2005使用OPC扩展器和顶级服务器为许多其他项目提供了计划，其中包括设备制造商的模拟器项目。
For more information on OPC solutions from Software Toolbox, visitwww.softwaretoolbox.com/opc.
