| As the rapid progress of industrial automation and the wide-spread application of computer, people's requirements of automation are higher and higher. The availabilities of various control devices and process monitoring devices make it almost impossible for the traditional industrial software to meet the characteristic demands of all kinds of consumers . The traditional industrial control software has obvious shortcomings, such as week flexibility, comparatively long development period, inconvenience to maintain, etc. In order to overcome those disadvantages , configuration software for monitoring come into being and gains much emphases. In this thesis, the background , current condition ,the future trend ,the purpose and significance of this research is firstly reviewed. Secondly, through comparing with the traditional control software, it introduces the characters of the process monitoring configuration software. On the basis of analysis of the structure and performance of the prevailing configuration software in market, we propose an infrastructure of software system. Then, according to the principles of software engineering and the function demanded , the functioning modules are put forward. It also explains the relations among those modules and how they connect with one another.Thirdly, it illustrates the relevant theories and technologies and their applications in the software development. Besides, it discusses the principles and realization methods of each module, especially the graphic-designing module. In the development implementation , a practical monitoring system for industry which is developed on our configuration software platform is presented. In the end, all work of the thesis are summarized and the problems that needs to be solved in the future are also pointed out. |