Managing software complexity with business rules

Next generation solutions for the plant maintenance must be flexible, self maintaining self configuring, robust and, in general must follow the latest trends of the internet revolution. To achieve this vision, next generation plant maintenance rules technology has been chosen and successfully applied to the continuous monitoring solution. In this paper we present a method of managing complexity of the system diagnostics using selected enabling technologies. The main enabling technologies listed in the paper are business rules and OPC Unified Architecture protocol. In the section "Self Maintaining Asset (SMA)", the authors present some monitoring agents and the framework applied to the continuous monitoring solution.