Method for monitoring and/or controlling a transport device, transport device for carrying out said method and clamp for detachably holding and transporting

A method for monitoring and/or controlling a high-speed transportation apparatus (10, 20) in which a multiplicity of like products (17), particularly printed products such as newspapers or magazines, are held detachably by means of individual clamps (12) arranged in a succession to one another and are transported along a transportation path (19) in succession, the method comprising:

• transporting the clamps (12) along a continuous transport chain (11) defining the transportation path (19);
• providing each of the clamps with at least one readable tag (T1, . . . , T5;
• Tn);
• bringing an element of a read in/out apparatus (30) within the transport path (19) and adjacent to a corresponding one of the clamps for the purpose of reading in and/or out prescribed volumes of data in the at least one tag (T1, . . . , T5;
• Tn) on the corresponding one of the clamps (12);
• and
• moving the element of the read in/out apparatus (3) within the transport path (19) along with the corresponding one of the clamps (12) over a selected section of the transport path (19).