计算机系统已成为供水系统工程、运行和维护活动的关键。过去，计算机化的信息和技术孤岛已经成为常态。如今，人们越来越期望关键的计算机系统共享数据，并无缝地协同工作，以充分利用彼此的优势。由于计算机软件和硬件的进步，现在已经有了建造和有效使用此类系统的基础技术。本文概述了在考虑当前技术的情况下构建独立、可互操作的软件组件的一些技术考虑。讨论了COM和COBRA等软件组件化标准。各种考虑因素，包括软件设计实践、网络能力和应用程序编程接口规定，都会影响软件组件的设计及其可移植性和实用性。 考虑了这些问题对软件组件的最终用途的相对重要性。描述了一个实施团队增加液压网络模拟组件的经验。本文概述并演示了构建灵活组件的一些回报，包括用于批量模拟和控制逻辑的脚本驱动会话，以及与其他系统组装的便利性。包括3个参考文献、图表。

Computer systems have become essential to the engineering, operations and maintenance activities of water supply systems. In the past, computerized islands of information and technology have been the norm. Today, there is an increasing expectation that key computer systems share data and work together seamlessly to leverage one another's benefits. Because of advances in computer software and hardware, the fundamental technology now exists for such systems to be built and productively used. This paper outlines some of the technical considerations related to building stand-alone, interoperable software components with current technology in mind. Software componentization standards such as COM and COBRA are discussed. Various considerations, including software design practices, networking capabilities, and application programming interface provisions, influence the design of a software component and its portability and usefulness. The relative importance of these issues to the ultimate usefulness of the software component are considered. The experiences of an implementation team increating a hydraulic network simulation component are described. Some of the paybacks from the effort of building flexible components are outlined and demonstrated, including script-driven sessions for batch simulations and control logic, and ease of assembly with other systems. Includes 3 references, figures.