The Distributed State Machine (DSM) Framework is a software add-on for LabVIEW that you can use to make your applications more scalable. This add-on provides a software library consisting of a set of classes that you can use to write reusable, flexible, and maintainable application components to mount to your existing LabVIEW applications. You can classify errors and perform actions with mounted error-handling. The DSM Framework features an object-oriented programming-(OOP-)based design and can run on both host and real-time platforms.