Abstract: A method for operating a process plant, in which at the process level a number of items of alarm information are generated to display improper operating procedures of the process plant, has a defined number of process states of the process plant, wherein each process state is correlated with the total of all items of alarm information that can be generated. A first value or a second value is allocated as the correlation value to each pair formed from a process state and an item of alarm information. A current operating state of the process plant is determined As a function of the determined process state, items of alarm information are not displayed to which the first value has been allocated as the correlation value.