Most of the Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCSs) have until recently,

The always growing need, for innovative products, forces manufacturing plants to improve their ability to quickly respond to market requirements by designing competitive products and modifying existing ones. However most of the traditional methods, products and tools are far away from the new challenging technologies of Software Engineering. Today’s systems are composed of monolithic applications that are almost impossible to integrate and even to expand. Modularity, flexibility, extensibility, reusability and interoperability are dimensions slightingly addressed by the most traditional proprietary methods and engineering tools. In this paper, w