A method for producing a wood-based material body in an apparatus that has a pressing device, comprising the following steps: - provision of comminuted wood material, in particular wood chips and/or wood fibres, - forming of the wood material to form material for pressing, and - pressing of the material for pressing to form a wood-based material body in the pressing device, wherein - before the step of pressing, at least one setpoint value for at least one physical state variable of the material for pressing is stored, - at least one sensor is integrated into the material for pressing, - the at least one sensor determines at least one actual value for the at least one physical state variable, - the at least one actual value is compared with the at least one setpoint value, wherein at least one parameter of the pressing device can be regulated based on the comparison of the actual value and the setpoint value, - a direct regulation of pressing pressure, pressing temperature, pressing duration and/or pressing speed takes place in such a manner that any difference between the actual value and the setpoint value is equalised still during the pressing process, - the pressing pressure and/or the pressing temperature are regulated depending on the detected measurement data at different distances of the pressing device independently of the adjacent sections, and - monitoring and/or regulation of the parameters of the pressing device is only begun after the startup phase of the pressing device has finished, the startup phase being a phase during which the final operating temperatures and operating pressures of the apparatus have not yet been reached. - provision of comminuted wood material, in particular wood chips and/or wood fibres, - forming of the wood material to form material for pressing, and - pressing of the material for pressing to form a wood-based material body in the pressing device, wherein - before the step of pressing, at least one setpoint value for at least one physical state variable of the material for pressing is stored, - at least one sensor is integrated into the material for pressing, - the at least one sensor determines at least one actual value for the at least one physical state variable, - the at least one actual value is compared with the at least one setpoint value, wherein at least one parameter of the pressing device can be regulated based on the comparison of the actual value and the setpoint value, - a direct regulation of pressing pressure, pressing temperature, pressing duration and/or pressing speed takes place in such a manner that any difference between the actual value and the setpoint value is equalised still during the pressing process, - the pressing pressure and/or the pressing temperature are regulated depending on the detected measurement data at different distances of the pressing device independently of the adjacent sections, and - monitoring and/or regulation of the parameters of the pressing device is only begun after the startup phase of the pressing device has finished, the startup phase being a phase during which the final operating temperatures and operating pressures of the apparatus have not yet been reached.