METHOD FOR MONITORING A PRODUCTION PLANT FOR THE TREATMENT OF BEVERAGES AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION PLANT

The invention relates to a method for monitoring a production facility for processing beverages and a monitoring system for a production facility. The method comprises the following steps: selecting a category-dependent data set having initial characteristic data of the beverage to be processed and target state data of the production facility; ascertaining at least three batch-dependent data sets having actual characteristic data of the beverage and actual state data of the production facility during the processing of a batch of the beverage; based on a self-learning algorithm, performing electronic real-time evaluation on data sets determined according to types and batches in the prediction model; and outputting user information comprising a remaining production duration that will continue up to the end of the batch and/or up to an expected required intermediate or final cleaning for the production facility according to the real-time evaluation. Unpredictable production interruptions due to cleaning purposes can thus be avoided, and the treatment of the beverage is optimized with respect to the cleaning interval to be carried out while maintaining the desired product quality.