Patent ID: 8219853

Claim:
A method for localizing faulty hardware components or system errors within a production plant comprising several hardware components, comprising: providing a production plant with hardware components managed or configured by an automation software, wherein the production plant is visualized or controlled with a human machine interface software; detecting identification data of the hardware components or groups of hardware components with the automation software; and assigning information relating to a site to individual hardware components or groups of hardware components by the automation software or human machine interface software based upon the identification data of the hardware components or groups of hardware components such that, in events of error messages as a result of faulty hardware components or system errors, a localization of the faulty hardware components is enabled within the production plant, wherein a reference to a control of the human machine interface software is stored within the automation software for superordinate hardware components, and a reference to the superordinate hardware components within the automation software is stored within the human machine interface software.