The objectives of the research project is the development of a general framework based on state of the art object oriented CASE technologies, allowing the modell based description and mathematical optimalization of industrial production processes. This objected will be achieved by extending the UML modelling paradigm with the elements needed for modelling industrial processes, by elaborating an interface to the typical computer engineering tasks, and by developing the theoretical foundations and experimental implementation of an automatic transformation generating a mathematical optimization problem from the UML based process modell.