Method for localizing faulty hardware components and/or system errors within a production plant

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.