Method the representation and operation of production resources, in particular for the plastics-processing industry

A method for displaying and operating one or more production devices on one or more central operating units, wherein at least one production device is present, and wherein one or more symbols for the one or more production devices that are connected via a network are present and selectable on the one or more central operating units, said method comprising:

• selecting, by the one or more central operating units, one or more of the symbols on a screen of the one or more central operating units;
• transferring, by the one or more production devices, a visualization component from the one or more production devices to the one or more central operating units based on the selecting of the one or more symbols;
• executing, by the one or more central operating units, the visualization component to display a complete representation and operation of the one or more production devices based on a cooperation of a visualization software available in the one or more central operating units and a control software that continues to run decentrally in the one or more production devices;
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• storing the visualization component of the one or more production devices in the one or more central operating units in order to achieve a faster response behavior at a next selection of symbols associated with the one or more production devices,
• wherein functionality results from an interaction of the control software and the visualization software with software modules relevant for visualization are transferred to the one or more central operating units by the one or more production devices and wherein the software modules relevant for the visualization cooperate with process-relevant software modules to remain in the control of the one or more production devices.