Micro Frontend Architecture Enhancement for Industrial Equipment Management Solutions

The client currently operates a monolithic frontend system for their industrial equipment management solutions, leading to difficulties in application maintenance, slow release cycles, and challenges in deploying updates independently. This hampers their ability to innovate rapidly and deliver timely updates to customers across diverse operational modules such as user portals, dashboards, and analytics tools.

A large-scale industrial equipment management solutions provider specializing in automation, SCADA, and CMMS systems for manufacturing and utility sectors, seeking to improve application modularity and release efficiency.

• Redesign the existing monolithic frontend to adopt a micro frontend architecture, enabling independent development, deployment, and maintenance of subapplications.
• Improve the release process efficiency and decrease time-to-market for new features and updates.
• Enhance application scalability and maintainability through component reuse, shared functionalities, and modular design.
• Establish a robust orchestration layer to manage application routing, asset management, and inter-module communication.
• Implement best practices for micro frontend architecture validated through proof-of-concept, aiming for high system reliability and performance.

• Component library for reusable UI elements and functional parts such as analytics modules
• Implementation of an application orchestration layer to manage application separation, routing, and integration
• Support for multi-repo architecture with independent deployment pipelines for each micro frontend
• Asset management system supporting artifact promotion to streamline build and release cycles
• Separation of concerns between user interfaces, data handling, and business logic within a decentralized architecture

• SCADA and CMMS back-end systems for data exchange
• Authentication and identity management services
• Data analytics and visualization tools
• CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment

• System scalability to support multiple independent micro frontends with minimal performance degradation
• High availability with uptime targets of 99.9%
• Security measures for application data and user authentication
• Performance optimization to ensure rapid load times and responsiveness, even with complex dashboards
• Support for concurrent development and deployment workflows with artifact promotion

The implementation of a micro frontend approach is expected to significantly reduce release cycles, enabling faster deployment of new features and updates, thereby improving time-to-market. Enhanced modularity and shared components will improve system maintainability and scalability, supporting the company's growth. The migration aims to decrease application downtime and streamline development workflows, ultimately leading to increased customer satisfaction and a competitive advantage in industrial equipment management.