the various systems that control factory equipment coupled to the industrial framework the presentation layer 42 provides the connection to the user s via remote systems including hmis cell phones handhelds and pcs for example as will be appreciated from fig4 a the industrial framework of the present invention provides a flexible architecture which is scalable distributed and open providing a true n level architecture it will also be seen from the figures that the framework has multiple data transports including http and ms message queuing which could support remote access and control such as through the internet or through gsm umts for example from the figure it is shown that the framework supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication thereby equipped to integrate any system from the architecture it will be observed that the industrial framework is designed to be expandable dynamically configurable and reusable as already noted monitoring and controlling such a network is important in order to facilitate this task given the complexity of such industrial networks the present invention provides support of hmi or gui devices within industrial networks such as the industrial framework this lends declarative and graphical methods of modeling and makes possible the execution of network wide information flows within the context of the industrial framework there is provided as shown in fig4 b a special gui called a workbench 44 which provides a graphical configuration or a workspace 46 in which.