Overlord3 SocketSet for 3rd party Overlord3 driver use

Overlord3 SocketSet provides a method for using the extensive Overlord3 driver library available from paa. The simple configuration of Overlord3 SocketSet allows calls from 3rd party software packages (EVOware, etc).

Why pay for the development of new drivers/adapters when Overlord3 SocketSet will give you a library of 408 instrument drivers to control equipment from 128 manufacturers that can be incorporated into your existing applications ?

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• allows use of new drivers for existing control software
• use any Overlord3 driver with a 3rd party software packages
• ease of instrument control to an existing application
• easy to set up and use
• use the feature set of Overlord3 to build intelligence into your new driver

• don't pay for new instrument drivers/adapters to be developed, use what is already available from Overlord3
• rapid project delivery
• added functionality to your 3rd party product

A new instrument is require in an existing automation systems and the existing control software from that manufacturer does not exist, but their software does allow shelling out via a command line.

Method 1

Instead of calling a native command in the 3rd party software protocol (EVOware, etc), call Overlord3 SocketSet instead from the 3rd party software function that allows other software to be executed. At run time, this new call will execute Overlord3 SocketSet, Overlord3 SocketSet will run the required instrument function

Method 2

Use the .NET framework in the 3rd party software to call Overlord3 SocketSet as an object.

An example of how to use Overlord3 SocketSet is to consider control an additional instrument that Tecan EVOware does not support and use Overlord3 SocketSet instead. The example below shows how an Overlord3 SocketSet action is inserted into Tecan EVOware and how this then calls Overlord3 SocketSet at runtime.

If you need to control an instrument and your supplier does not support that instrument, use Overlord3 SocketSet to make it happen !