1. An industrial automation system, comprising: an interface device, comprising a first device element that represents a visual aspect of the interface device, a second device element that represents an operational aspect of the interface device and a global memory container that houses the first device element and the second device element, wherein the interface device determines whether at least one of the first device element or the second device element is an idle device element and temporarily unloads the idle device element from the global memory container; and a configuration station that configures the idle device element, wherein the interface device operates in an execution mode when the configuration station configures the idle device element.