Patent ID: 7127312

Claim:
A method for acquiring and storing data from a production plant to provide relevant data for a fault analysis, which comprises: assigning the production plant a data server, the data server buffering production data acquired by measurement; acquiring additional information, input by an operator using a data input of a data processing device; and using an event monitoring functional unit of the data processing device for carrying out an evaluation of the production data cyclically, the event monitoring functional unit accessing the production data stored in the data server and the additional information on a basis of monitoring criteria, the monitoring criteria being contained in a stored script, and, depending on an event detected, the event monitoring functional unit directing a storing of relevant production data in one of a number of procedure-dependent databases, the relevant production data being stored in a procedure-dependent database depending on a type of the predefined event; and for a detected fault event, storing in a fault event database the designation of the event, the start of the occurrence and the duration of the fault event.