A device, adapted for use in a system, adapted for carrying out at least one industrial automated process, namely a weighing and/or filling and/or arranging and/or packing process, wherein the entire process comprises at least two partial processes, wherein the device constitutes an individual machine of the system, and wherein a process specification is pre-defined across partial processes, which has had least one comparison value for at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, the device having: - A data storage unit for permanent storage of the at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, - at least one sensor for determining the at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, which is relevant to the entire process, by detecting at least one partial process parameter of the device relevant to the entire process, wherein the partial process parameter is a measured variable on the device, - a processing device, which is electrically connected to the sensor for processing the process data value, - an interface device for the data connection and for forwarding the process data value to at least one individual machine (2a, 2b, 2c) located upstream and/or downstream in the process, wherein the device is adapted to carry out a comparison of the process data value with the pre-defined process specification in order to evaluate the entire process. wherein the device constitutes an individual machine of the system, and wherein a process specification is pre-defined across partial processes, which has had least one comparison value for at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, the device having: - A data storage unit for permanent storage of the at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, - at least one sensor for determining the at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, which is relevant to the entire process, by detecting at least one partial process parameter of the device relevant to the entire process, wherein the partial process parameter is a measured variable on the device, - a processing device, which is electrically connected to the sensor for processing the process data value, - an interface device for the data connection and for forwarding the process data value to at least one individual machine (2a, 2b, 2c) located upstream and/or downstream in the process, - A data storage unit for permanent storage of the at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, - at least one sensor for determining the at least one process data value relevant to the entire process, which is relevant to the entire process, by detecting at least one partial process parameter of the device relevant to the entire process, wherein the partial process parameter is a measured variable on the device, - a processing device, which is electrically connected to the sensor for processing the process data value, - an interface device for the data connection and for forwarding the process data value to at least one individual machine (2a, 2b, 2c) located upstream and/or downstream in the process, wherein the device is adapted to carry out a comparison of the process data value with the pre-defined process specification in order to evaluate the entire process.