Proposed is a computer-implemented method for operating a technical apparatus by means of a
client-
server system having a
server and clients that are connected to respective technical apparatuses, said method comprising the following steps: a. providing operational data from the operation of the technical apparatus of each
client, and generating operational meta-information relating to the operation of the technical apparatus from the operational data using a provided, trained
feature extraction model, by means of the
server; b. providing a trained base model to the server, and applying the operational data and the meta-information relating to each
client to the base model and obtaining associated operational features, by means of the server; c. calculating the similarity between the operational features of the respective clients in the form of a similarity value; d. assigning the client to a particular client group from a set of client groups, each client group from a set of client groups being defined by means of an associated specified value range for the similarity value of the particular client group; e. determining the largest client group, which has the most clients, from a set of client groups; f. forming the average similarity value from the respective similarity values of the clients in the largest client group; g. defining a
personalization factor for each client on the basis of the average similarity value, which expresses a similarity of the particular client to the average similarity value of the associated largest client group; h. generating
global model parameters for each client on the basis of the associated
personalization factor and the difference between the associated operational data and the
global model parameters; i. updating the base model using the
global model parameters; j. continuing with step c) until a predetermined criterion for the repetition of steps c) - i) has been satisfied, and otherwise continuing with step k); and k. operating the technical apparatus with the updated base model.