Procedure for identifying and prioritizing monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32) to be exchanged in the case of existing interactions between the monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32) comprising the following steps: - Recording and storing driving parameters over a defined number of driving cycles (N) of a vehicle (10), - Acquisition and storage of diagnostic parameters of each monitoring unit (22, 28, 30, 32) from a diagnostic statistic (33) of the monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32) over the defined number of driving cycles (N) of the vehicle (10) to determine a damage state (SOD) of the respective monitoring unit (22, 28, 30, 32), - Determining and storing an expected increase in the emitted
mass as a function of a distance traveled of at least one defined emission component based on the driving parameters, the damage state (SOD) and an
aging factor (AF) of the monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32) of the vehicle (10), - Establishing an initial prioritization
list (45) depending on the respective damage status (SOD) of the monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32), - Storing an interaction matrix (46) which specifies whether a damage state (SOD) of one of the monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32) affects a damage state (SOD) of another monitoring unit (22, 28, 30, 32), - Storing a correction factor (CF) with which, in the event of such an interaction and exceeding a threshold value of the damage state (SOD) of the influencing monitoring unit (22, 28, 30, 32), the determined expected increase in the emitted
mass of the influencing monitoring unit (22, 28, 30, 32) is corrected as a function of the distance traveled, - Creating a second prioritization
list (50) depending on the size of the expected increases in the
mass emitted for the monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32) corrected by the correction factor (CF) depending on the distance traveled, depending on which an exchange of the monitoring units (22, 28, 30, 32) takes place.