A control device and method for state-transition-based processing of objects following a state-structured process flow with a plurality of process states. For each process state one or more tasks are selected in order to process the transition of a selected object from one process state to the subsequent process state. State parameters of the selected object are captured and the current process state of the object is determined based on the captured state parameters. The tasks are generated for a specific process state in dependence on assigned task parameters of a process task. Operating tags are assigned to a process task and include dynamically alterable operating parameters adding operational constraints to the processing of the process task. The state-structured process flow is dynamically generated and processed by triggering defined threshold and/or trigger values and/or steering the processing of the process tasks based on the operating parameters of the operating-tags.
