Abstract: A control device for controlling a manufacturing plant. The manufacturing plant includes at least one process station (for carrying out a manufacturing process. The manufacturing plant and/or the process station includes at least one process parameter for the purpose of regulation and/or control. The manufacturing plant and/or the process station including at least one detection device for detecting at least one process feature with the aid of a first control module and a second control module, the first control module and the second control module being designed to determine a control value and/or a model for the process parameter to regulate the manufacturing plant and/or the process station, based in each case on a machine learning algorithm and the process feature.

Abstract: Production plant (1) for producing at least one end product (3) from at least one primary starting material (2), comprising at least one processing station (41-43) which processes at least one starting material (21-23) to form at least one product (31, 32, 33), and a process controller (51-53) which can control at least one variable (71-73), which is a measure of a quality feature of the product (31-33) and/or is correlated with a quality feature of the product (31-33), by influencing at least one manipulated variable (61-63) acting on the processing station (41-43), wherein the process controller (51-53) is additionally designed to control the production rate (31a-33a) of the processing station (41-43) for the product (31-33) and/or the consumption rate (21a-23a) of the processing station (41-43) with regard to starting material (21-23) by acting on the manipulated variable (61-63).