Since 1996, Software Toolbox has been a leader in providing ActiveX controls, DDE servers, OPC servers, development toolkits and more.  For connectivity to almost all types of industrial hardware, Software Toolbox is the market leader.

In the real world, there are multiple brands of shop floor control system hardware in nearly every manufacturing facility. Today's eManufacturing business initiatives demand that shop floor systems provide access to production data. The real world of HMI, MES, ERP, and other systems also involves multiple vendors communicating between applications.  For these applications, Software Toolbox's Top Server OPC and I/O Server product family provide best of breed solutions.

TOP Server Advanced Server Features:

• Dial-Up Modem Support in Serial Drivers

• Implement Redundancy Support from your client application to perform the following:

  - Switch COM ports

  - Switch Ethernet cards

  - Control a Modem

  - Change device ID or IP Addresses

  - Enabled/Disable a device

  - Change Timeout settings

• Add functionality to your Client application to detect if a Device is online/offline via special system Tags that are readily accessible

• Dynamic Tag Creation - allows you to pass the OPC server the hardware addresses you want to read from your OPC client, makes adding Tags in the OPC Server an option and not a requirement

  - Extended functionality also allows you to specify data-type and scan-rate of a tag

Just some of the drivers available:

• BacNet Ethernet TOP Server OPC and IO Server

• Siemens S5/S7 Suite OPC+IO Server-PPI, Ethernet Master/Slave, AS511,3964 Driver

• OmniServer

• TOP Server User Configurable Driver (UCON)

• Automation Direct (Koyo/PLC Direct) PLCs TOP Server Suite

• AB, G.E., Modicon, Siemens and many many more...

To view our full list of offerings, click here.

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