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The Generic frame work for future development in Industrial automation and process control (IAC) software development. Shamdutt.A.Kamble. Software Specialist, Embedded Internet Access Div, Pune. Wipro Technologies. Shamdutt.kamble@. Sundar Varada Raj P. Tech Head, Embedded Internet Access Div, Pune. Wipro Technologies. Varadaraj.sundar@. 1.Introduction : This paper describes about the development of a component based generic framework for developing industrial automation applications, making it scalable, reusable and modular . The problem specifying the need of the framework and then solution to the problem with the component based framework for typical IAC application is discussed. The paper also analyze the software development environment for industrial automation application using this framework. 2.Problem: The complex system such as the process control often required not only to work properly, but also to be portable to multiple platform and be easily adaptable to multiple set of components. Unless care is taken it is easy to propagate dependence on certain component or platform details throughout the system. This result in greatly increase in maintenance cost, system fragility, increase in development time. 3.Solution: To address the above problem there is a requirement of framework which will be open, modular, extendible, portable, scalable, maintainable, reusable and more important rapid development. All these requirements are taken care by the component based framework. The component form the building block of the framework. The components implement domains [1]. In other words each domain is represented by one or more components having set of classes and objects related by subject matter. The framework development for the process control system is divided into three steps: Domain Identification, Component development for domain Implementation, and Architecture design. 3.1 Domain Identification: The Industrial automation appl