Method for operating a means

The invention relates to a method for operating a drive controller 400. The invention makes it possible to locate damage in production machine components at an early stage during the production process in order to increase the productivity of the machines. This is realized by means of the controller 400 with an integrated diagnostic and / or monitoring unit to detect mechanical disturbances, whereby in addition to an automatic machine control and / or machine controller, an automatic detection of an engine vibration and an automatic implementation of a machine state analysis means of the detected engine vibration occurs. Bearing damage can thus be detected early and corrected.