Abstract: The Industrial Framework universally integrates applications. An application domain model is mapped to the Industrial Framework unified model, containing external application data, functions and objects (having data and functions). The published data, functions and objects of the application domain model are accessed by any service and integrated application, thereby universally integrating applications to the Industrial Framework. Specific communication protocols used by different types of applications are mapped to generic Framework protocols, thereby allowing higher-level communication between any involved applications. A toolkit supports the development of Adapters that are created to universally integrate any of a predetermined type of application to an Industrial Framework. Within this toolkit, there is provided libraries having reusable starter source files for a new Adapter in which coding common to the Applications is previously provided.