A method for controlling a continuous casting system for producing slabs from a predetermined material, the continuous casting system comprising a plurality of molds for creating corresponding cast strands, the method comprising: - receiving a plurality of casting orders , each casting order including a required quantity of the material, an associated slab width, and tolerance specifications with respect to the casting orders ; - determining for each of the casting orders , from the respective required quantities and the respective slab widths, a set of slabs to be cast with associated slab weights and slab widths; - sorting all slabs to be cast of all sets of all casting orders according to a sorting criterion to obtain a sorted base sequence of slabs to be cast, the sorting criterion including the slab widths; - uniformly partitioning the sorted base sequence into a number of subsequences, the number of subsequences corresponding to the number of molds ; - adjusting, for each of the subsequences, the slab widths of the slabs to be cast of the subsequence, taking the tolerance specifications into consideration, the jumps in widths between two slabs to be cast immediately following one another in the subsequence not exceeding a predetermined jump value as a result of the adjustment, adjusted subsequences resulting from the adjusted slab widths; and - transmitting control data to the continuous casting system for producing the slabs to be cast determined in the adjusted subsequences, the order of production of the slabs in the control data for each of the subsequences corresponding to the order in which the slabs to be cast are determined in the respective adjusted subsequence, wherein the sorting criterion includes the slab widths in descending order. - receiving a plurality of casting orders , each casting order including a required quantity of the material, an associated slab width, and tolerance specifications with respect to the casting orders ; - determining for each of the casting orders , from the respective required quantities and the respective slab widths, a set of slabs to be cast with associated slab weights and slab widths; - sorting all slabs to be cast of all sets of all casting orders according to a sorting criterion to obtain a sorted base sequence of slabs to be cast, the sorting criterion including the slab widths; - uniformly partitioning the sorted base sequence into a number of subsequences, the number of subsequences corresponding to the number of molds ; - adjusting, for each of the subsequences, the slab widths of the slabs to be cast of the subsequence, taking the tolerance specifications into consideration, the jumps in widths between two slabs to be cast immediately following one another in the subsequence not exceeding a predetermined jump value as a result of the adjustment, adjusted subsequences resulting from the adjusted slab widths; and - transmitting control data to the continuous casting system for producing the slabs to be cast determined in the adjusted subsequences, the order of production of the slabs in the control data for each of the subsequences corresponding to the order in which the slabs to be cast are determined in the respective adjusted subsequence, <EOS>