Method for producing an arrangement of laminated plastics film layers for a plastics card body, wherein the method comprises the following steps: - providing an arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; - providing material parameter data which indicate one or more material properties for individual layers of the stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers and/or the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers, wherein the one or more material properties indicate a current state for the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; - determining process parameter data by means of a material model which assigns the process parameter data to the material parameter data, wherein the process parameter data indicate process parameters such as pressure profiles and/or temperature profiles for a lamination process, by means of which an arrangement of laminated plastics film layers for a plastics card body is produced from the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; - determining machine control data by means of a machine model which assigns the machine control data to the process parameter data, wherein the machine control data indicate machine control parameters for a production machine used in the lamination process, by means of which machine the arrangement of laminated plastics film layers for a plastics card body is produced from the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; and - producing the arrangement of laminated plastics film layers for the plastics card body from the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers by means of the production machine, wherein the production machine is controlled in accordance with the machine control data. - providing an arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; - providing material parameter data which indicate one or more material properties for individual layers of the stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers and/or the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers, wherein the one or more material properties indicate a current state for the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; - determining process parameter data by means of a material model which assigns the process parameter data to the material parameter data, wherein the process parameter data indicate process parameters such as pressure profiles and/or temperature profiles for a lamination process, by means of which an arrangement of laminated plastics film layers for a plastics card body is produced from the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; - determining machine control data by means of a machine model which assigns the machine control data to the process parameter data, wherein the machine control data indicate machine control parameters for a production machine used in the lamination process, by means of which machine the arrangement of laminated plastics film layers for a plastics card body is produced from the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers; and - producing the arrangement of laminated plastics film layers for the plastics card body from the arrangement of stacked, non-laminated plastics film layers by means of the production machine, wherein the production machine is controlled in accordance with the machine control data.