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Session 1559

Session 1559

Software Application Design Using Visual C++ and OLE

Bruce Segee, Scott Dunning, Vincent Allen University of Maine

Abstract Our goal was to develop an OLE container application using Visual C++ that could provide access to multiple OLE servers. Each of the OLE servers is a separate application such as a report for processing data or an application that controls some process. The OLE container is responsible for combining all the servers in a presentable form to the user. The strength in this type of architecture is that new servers can be developed and made available to the user through the container without any modification to the container code or that servers can be mixed and matched in order to provide different functionality within the same container. The development of servers also provides valuable educational experience for students in terms of programming, software engineering, and also energy efficiency in the industrial and business communities. 1. Introduction Since 1978, the U.S. Department of Energy has sponsored the Industrial Assessment Center program (IAC). This program provides “no-cost” industrial assessments to small and medium- sized manufacturers around the United States. The program utilizes 30 Universities which each perform 30 assessments annually at firms within 150 miles of their respective campuses. It has been highly successful in training students in energy efficiency and waste minimization techniques. The program has also been very successful helping the manufacturers that are served by the program. In our desire to provide further assistance to smaller manufacturers, we began investigating ways to share technical expertise with these small manufacturers. At the national level, the U.S. Department of Energy has developed publications in conjunction with Rutgers University that document typical energy conservation opportunities [1]. They also have developed a self- assessment workbook to assist manufacturers in improving energy efficiency [2]. Unfortunately, most facility managers of small manufacturing firms have little time to sort through large manuals educating themselves in energy efficiency. This led us to the conclusion that we needed to develop a software package to assist these manufacturers. Furthermore, this software package needed to be easy to use, easily extensible, customizable for a given industry, and be such that adding or removing recommendations does not “break” any existing recommendations. 2. Generalized Software Our goal was to develop a software application that would encapsulate a wide variety of recommendations that could apply to a wide variety of companies. The software needed to be

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Allen, V., & Segee, B. E., & Dunning, S. C. (1997, June), Software Application Design Using Visual C++ And Ole Paper presented at 1997 Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 10.18260/1-2--6787