Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects in the production and further processing of plastic sheet material, in particular a spun-bonded non-woven fabric, a melt-blown non-woven fabric, a composite non-woven fabric, a blown film, a flat film, a plastic board or a plastic panel. A core aspect in the value chain of sheet material is a method and device for providing, retrieving and using a data element for exchanging in an over-lapping step-wise manner, a plurality of different data elements for producing the end product within the value chain of the sheet material. Within the value chain, it is possible to optimize the method using said data, to improve the construction of the used machines and systems and to improve the system technology as well as method technology for producing the sheet material.