A method is provided for providing process protocols for processes carried out by a number of physical devices. A sensor assigned to a physical device detects measured values. Time stamps are assigned to the detected measured values, and the process protocol is generated from the measured values detected by the sensor, from an assignment of the detected measured values to the sensor and/or to the at least one device, and from the time stamp assigned to the measured values. The process protocol has a number of data sets, and each data set of the process protocol has a first attribute, where a unique identification of a process is stored and by which the process step is assigned to the process, a second attribute, where an identification of the process step is stored, and a third attribute, where a sequence of the process steps within a process is stored.