Choosing the most fitting manufacturing principle largely depends on the technical divisibility of jobs and the quantity to be produced. In most cases, a high quantity causes a higher degree of automation. What to do, however, if the production programme is evolving into various product modifications in the long run, thus developing from monolithic flow lines to a quasi-continuous batch production by means of bottleneck machines?Classic push-controlled routines are failing here, since the batchwise manufacturing in combination with performance-reducing parameters within production systems will cause discontinuous outputs that are difficult to control and, moreover, feature an increased creation of work in process (WIP).This problem is intensified by a combined influence of necessary setup activities, which often lead to sporadic machine failures. As a matter of fact, this invariably causes a dramatic delay in delivery times, not least because of the extension of the throughput times.In this paper, we will introduce a manufacturing control that is based on dynamic WIP-oriented bottleneck planning, which will allow to maintain the automatically regulated output optimum by means of a self-controlling system.