Abstract: A method for producing material boards in a production plant in which apparatuses form a material into a mat that is pressed to obtain the material board which has specific quality parameters. The production plant and/or the apparatuses are controlled in an open- or closed-loop manner by a controller, which preferably includes a programmable logic controller, and input parameters are received, processed and/or output by the controller. The input parameters are formed at least from settable product parameters for the material board to be produced, from settable and/or recorded plant parameters of the production plant and/or the apparatuses and/or from recorded material parameters. A quality value of at least one quality parameter of the material board to be produced is determined based on the input parameters by an algorithm based on artificial intelligence. The algorithm is trained or formed by a database which has at least one quality parameter and input parameters correlating with the quality parameter.