Abstract: A method of producing and/or packaging cigarettes in a production and/or packaging installation using starting material (28-32, 36-40; 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, etc.), at least one of the starting materials, for example film webs, paper webs or the like, being fed to the production and/or packaging installation in defined material units. Production-relevant data (A-E) which can be determined, in particular, exclusively during the production process and are dependent on at least one starting material (28-32, 36-40; 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, etc.)—material characteristics—are recorded and clearly assigned to the respective starting material (28-32, 36-40; 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, etc.), preferably to a starting-material unit, it being the case that the recorded material characteristics (A-E) assigned to the starting material (28-32, 36-40; 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, etc.) are stored in a memory of a computing unit (33, 42), in particular for subsequent evaluation.

Abstract: A production and packaging installation with a control arrangement (33) and production units having respectively adjustable mechanisms, such as, a (cigarette-) production machine (maker 10), a packaging machine (packer 11), possibly a film-wrapping machine (12), possibly a multipacker (13) and possibly a carton packer (cartoner 14), for the production and ready-to-dispatch packaging of, in the first instance, products—cigarettes and cigarette packs—of a first type and, thereafter, products of a second type each comprising starting materials, such as paper blanks, film and the like, and also specifies the control arrangement itself and a method of controlling the line, it being the case that at least a first set of parameters (61) associated with products of the first type and a second set of parameters (62) associated with products of the second type are stored in a selectable manner in a memory of the control arrangement (33) and, upon selection of a set of parameters (61, 62), a manipulated variable for adj

Abstract: A method is specified of operating a device for controlling and/or monitoring a production and/or packaging installation on a bus (33), the controller (30) comprising an interface (34) to be connected to the bus (33), a main memory (36) for the storage of a control program (31) and also means for executing the control program (31). Configuration data (40) are stored in a removable memory module (39). When the controller (30) is restarted, the configuration data (40) are read out and, by using the configuration data (40), an access is made to a remote memory (32) which can be reached via the bus (33) and which comprises a transfer to the controller (30) of data stored in the remote memory (32).

Abstract: A production and packaging installation with a control arrangement (33) and production units having respectively adjustable mechanisms, such as, a (cigarette-) production machine (maker 10), a packaging machine (packer 11), possibly a film-wrapping machine (12), possibly a multipacker (13) and possibly a carton packer (cartoner 14), for the production and ready-to-dispatch packaging of, in the first instance, products—cigarettes and cigarette packs—of a first type and, thereafter, products of a second type each comprising starting materials, such as paper blanks, film and the like, and also specifies the control arrangement itself and a method of controlling the line, it being the case that at least a first set of parameters (61) associated with products of the first type and a second set of parameters (62) associated with products of the second type are stored in a selectable manner in a memory of the control arrangement (33) and, upon selection of a set of parameters (61, 62), a manipulated variable for adj