The invention relates to a device (102) and a computer-implemented method for analyzing, in particular for optimizing or controlling, a process at a
station (14-1,..., 104-n) of a work
system (103), in particular of a production site, in order to determine a
bottleneck, characterized in that the process is carried out using a
data structure and is controlled in particular according to the
data structure, the
data structure comprising components, each component comprising at least one component, wherein the components each
encode a
process type (200) in a
data field and associate with a duration for a part of the process, the
process type (200) defining a process at or on a
station (104-1,..., 104-n), wherein the process can be executed cyclically and manually and is time-decisive (204) for the user of the
machine and the flow of the
machine, or can be executed cyclically and manually and is non-decisive for the flow of the
machine, while the flow of the user is time-decisive (206), the method is characterized in that the method can be executed cyclically and automatically, or can be executed cyclically and automatically, and the process for the machine is time-decisive, and the process for the user is non-time-decisive (208), or can be executed cyclically and automatically after a plurality of cyclic processes, and the process for the user is non-time-decisive (210), or can be executed cyclically and automatically after a plurality of cyclic processes, and the process for the user is non-time-decisive (208). The process for the machine and the user is time-decisive (212), or is executed periodically and manually after a plurality of loop processes, and the process for the machine and the user is time-decisive (212), or is executed periodically and manually after a plurality of loop processes, and the process for the machine is non-time-decisive (214), wherein a
bottleneck is determined or a
bottleneck modified with an additional amount or factor is determined depending on a duration associated with a component for a time-decisive process.