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News Release from: Adept Scientific | Subject: SoftwareWedge
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 February 2000
Instrument data direct into any program
SoftwareWedge provides a simple way of transferring data from any laboratory or industrial instrument with a serial output into the PC program of your choice.
Adept Scientific has taken on distribution and support in the UK of the SoftwareWedge range of products from TAL Technologies (Philadelphia, USA) A tried and tested solution to a problem faced regularly by many scientists and engineers, SoftwareWedge provides a simple way of transferring data from any laboratory or industrial instrument with a serial output into the PC program of your choice
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In the past, even when it has been possible to feed instrument data into a PC, it has tended to be in a proprietary or difficult-to-use format.
What the user really wants, however, is to get those readings straight into software such as Excel.
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Often the only solution has been to enter the data manually, which is tedious and time-consuming and highly prone to errors.
The SoftwareWedge range provides a neat solution to this problem.
SoftwareWedge lets you take data from just about any device that you can connect to your serial port ? balances, gauges, flow meters, sensors, titrators, micrometers, digital callipers, pH meters, analysers and more ? and read it straight into your application, be it a spreadsheet such as Excel, a statistical quality control package like NWA Quality Analyst, or a database, word processor, graphics program, process control software or even a LIMS (laboratory information management system).
It is extremely easy to set up and use too.
There is no need to do any programming ? just select how you want the data collected, define the communication parameters, decide which data you want from the data string, then activate SoftwareWedge and the data goes straight into your preferred application.
You can set it up in minutes.
Software Wedge products range from the standard WinWedge through to the latest WinWedge 32 Pro product.
The WinWedge standard product is designed to work with simple devices such as balances but the Pro versions will work with virtually any serial device, parsing, filtering and translating complex serial output and allowing sophisticated control of the device.
The WinWedge 32 Pro product is a full 32 bit version for Windows 95, 98 and NT, and comes with two free utilities: FileWedge, which works like WinWedge only it takes data from a file instead of from serial ports; and TCPWedge which communicates with any IP port address.
A DOS version of SoftwareWedge also remains available. Request a free brochure from Adept Scientific ...
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