Patent ID: 8825198

Claim:
A control device for a processing installation for the production of collections of printed products, wherein the processing installation includes at least two installation sections and each of the installation sections is set up to produce an output stream of collections of part products as output products, from several input streams of these part products as input products, and wherein an output stream of at least one first installation section is an input stream of a second installation section arranged downstream of the first installation section, wherein the control device comprises: several programmable control units, wherein: each control unit is assigned to an associated one of said first and second installation sections and controls and monitors said associated installation section, and each control unit, on the basis of a predefined production definition of output products, hereinafter called product requirement, and of a predefined product definition of input products, called product specification, is configured to activate the associated installation section such that the output stream of the associated installation section consists of collections of the part products and corresponds to the product requirement, wherein first and second control units are assigned to the first and second installation sections, respectively, wherein the second control unit is set up to receive product requirements from a master control or from another control unit, wherein the second control unit is set up to produce further product requirements for the first control unit, and wherein the first control unit is set up to receive these further product requirements from the second control unit.