DESCRIZIONE
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a meat processing machine having a meat processing unit for processing input meat products which are fed therein into output meat products, an input sensor unit and a control unit for controlling the meat processing unit, wherein the control unit is connected to the input sensor unit comprising the steps: feeding in input meat products to the meat processing unit, sensing input product data, in particular geometry data and/or weight data, of the input meat products which have been fed into the meat processing unit, by means of the input sensor unit, and determining a tolerance variable for a yield-relevant processing variable by means of a mathematical model or a database, in each case as a function of the sensed input product data. The invention also relates to a meat processing machine for carrying out the method.