Method and apparatus for shaping a production process for producing a product made up of multiple subproducts

A device for shaping a production process for producing a product made up of a plurality of subproducts in a production system having a plurality of production modules, having:

• a generating unit for generating a process model using data about production steps to be carried out for the product and the subproducts thereof,
• from which process model data about at least one production step can be read out and a respective production module that is available and associated therewith for carrying out the respective production step can be identified, and
• a deployment unit for deploying instructions via a signal connection that correspond to the respective production step for the production module,
• wherein
• the process model is represented by a graph that comprises a plurality of nodes connected by edges, each node describing a process step and the nodes being directly and/or indirectly connected to one another by the edges in such a way that the dependencies that exist between the production steps are expressed by the edges.