Implementation of asset health assessment system with pattern-oriented design and practice

To integrate condition monitoring and reliability analysis with asset life-cycle management, a general-purpose asset health assessment system architecture is being developed. This system will assist management and maintenance staff to make decisions based on condition and reliability data, scientific analysis, and integrated information thereby reducing the asset management cost for enterprises. In this paper, a pattern-oriented software architecture design is presented. The functionality of the system is examined and some issues are identified. In particular, the paper elaborates on how design patterns are applied in the implementation of the different tiers in the system. It also presents a discussion detailing the system architecture that facilitates extensibility, flexibility, and robustness of the software system. To simplify the implementation of design patterns, various methodologies based on the in-built features of Microsoft NET framework are applied.