Technical Expertise Center

Welcome to the Software Toolbox Technical Expertise Center (TEC). This center is dedicated to sharing general technology expertise. If you need support for a Software Toolbox product specifically, please click the Tech Support Link at the right.

We created the TEC out of a desire to give back to the industry what our years of experience in software, programming, and the automation industry has taught us. It is our place to share technical papers, stories, reference materials and other material oriented around software technologies. In essence this section is our free technology training gift to the industry.

We hope that you will use this center to help you learn more about software technologies and we welcome your input on topics you'd like to see covered here. If we have expertise in an area that matches your need then we'll use your input as the stimulus to add that expertise to this section.

OPC Technologies What is OPC? What good does it do for me? How does it work with my existing software? What do i need to know to use OPC? Get answers to these questions and more in our OPC technology center. eManufacturing The term eManufacturing has emerged over the last 12 months and is being heard a great deal in 2001. We've created this section to share expertise and information we have found useful. Read our executive summary on eManufacturing written in conjuction with a leading eManufacturing consulting firm. Visual Basic Human Machine Interfaces Have you ever considered using Visual Basic to create a Human Machine Interface application? Do you wonder what it really takes to create one? How do i log data with VB? Get these answers and more in this section in several technical papers available that have been presented at prestigous events such as the ISA show and the IMS show. Object Software Our specialty. Ever wondered what an ActiveX control really is? What's the difference between DDE and ActiveX? What's an OCX? What's a VBX? Get answers to these questions and more in our Object Software technology center.   Dictionary of Terms Have you heard a software or automation term that you aren't sure what it means? Check here for the answers.