A method for producing packaging, in particular tubular bags, by means of a packaging machine having a PLC control , said packaging machine comprising several electronic drive units , which are capable of being controlled independently of each other, are controlled by the PLC control and can drive different functional elements of the packaging machine in a manner synchronous to a clock cycle when trailing predefined movement trajectories , and several setting parameters of the production process, in particular the number of objects to be packaged per time unit, the packaging dimensions, the sealing times, being predefined, the method comprising the following method steps: a) capturing the setting parameters at the PLC control which controls the drive units of the packaging machine ; b) transmitting the setting parameters from the PLC control to a PC control ; c) calculating the clock-cycle-dependent parameter profile curves for the clock-cycle-dependent movement profiles and/or the clock-cycle-dependent speed profiles and/or the clock-cycle acceleration profiles and/or the clock-cycle-dependent power profiles and/or the clock-cycle-dependent torque profiles for controlling the different drive units in the PC control , said parameter profile curves enabling the clock-cycle-synchronous control of the different drive units when trailing predefined movement trajectories by factoring in the predefined setting parameters of the production process and by factoring in the static and dynamic threshold values of the packaging machine ; d) discretizing the clock-cycle-dependent parameter profile curves into a plurality of interpolation points in the PC control , each interpolation point consisting of a clock-cycle point and at least one allocated parameter value; e) forming several interpolation-point data sets in the PC control , each interpolation-point data set containing at least a selection of the interpolation points and representing the clock-cycle-dependent parameter profile curve in a discrete form; f) transferring the interpolation-point data sets from the PC control to the PLC control . a) capturing the setting parameters at the PLC control which controls the drive units of the packaging machine ; b) transmitting the setting parameters from the PLC control to a PC control ; c) calculating the clock-cycle-dependent parameter profile curves for the clock-cycle-dependent movement profiles and/or the clock-cycle-dependent speed profiles and/or the clock-cycle acceleration profiles and/or the clock-cycle-dependent power profiles and/or the clock-cycle-dependent torque profiles for controlling the different drive units in the PC control , said parameter profile curves enabling the clock-cycle-synchronous control of the different drive units when trailing predefined movement trajectories by factoring in the predefined setting parameters of the production process and by factoring in the static and dynamic threshold values of the packaging machine ; d) discretizing the clock-cycle-dependent parameter profile curves into a plurality of interpolation points in the PC control , each interpolation point consisting of a clock-cycle point and at least one allocated parameter value; e) forming several interpolation-point data sets in the PC control , each interpolation-point data set containing at least a selection of the interpolation points and representing the clock-cycle-dependent parameter profile curve in a discrete form; f) transferring the interpolation-point data sets from the PC control to the PLC control . <EOS>