Patent ID: 8135792

Claim:
A system for generating and displaying messages or alarms in a production process using automated production equipment in a factory automation system, comprising: at least one message trigger for generating at least one message or alarm in response to an event, fault or other condition monitored in the production process, the message or the alarm having at least one variable at-tribute determinative as to how, or in what sequence, the message or alarm is to be displayed; and at least one processing device for displaying the message or the alarm in accord with a current indication, based on attribute information, as to how or in what sequence the message or alarm is to be displayed, wherein the message trigger is configured to transmit the attribute together with the message or the alarm to the processing device, and the processing device has an evaluation unit for evaluating the attribute and providing display in accord therewith, wherein the message trigger is configured to dynamically modify the attribute, and a planning device for defining at least first, second and third attribute classes and for transmitting the at least one attribute to the processing device, wherein such attribute falling into the second attribute class is transmitted to the message trigger, and such attribute falling into the third attribute class is transmitted to the processing device via the message trigger.