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The development of smart hydraulic press that allows rapid adaptation to high-volume variant production is a major challenge. Besides tool management, setting the control parameters, which can be considered as a correct press cycle, is an important part to achieve agile production. This paper presents a new approach to automatically generate a hydraulic press cycle where the important data of the production plan is known, such as the data or setting of the forming tool and the data of the product. In this case, RFID tracking system is used to read the tool/product data, which is input data for the mathematical algorithm for calculating the characteristic points of the hydraulic press cycle. The characteristic points are sent to the local PLC and stored as a matrix. The Beckhoff TwinCat platform is used for process control. Finally, a simple bending process is shown as a use case for concept verification.