Summary: The paper deals with a control of cyclic discrete production processes. The main aim of the paper is to present a new method to scheduling such processes. The method is based on so called pattern scheduling devised by the authors. The method is applied for control of a coke battery in steelworks. The generated presently schedule is not good enough because the normative coke burn time cannot be kept for particular chambers of the coke battery. A description of the coke battery and an analysis of the process are given in the paper. Then a mathematical model of the process that is worked out by the authors is presented. The main part of the paper deals with control of the process in presence of disturbances. Some classes of disturbances are differentiated and their influence on the process is analyzed. The control algorithm based on the devised method for control coke battery is proposed and analyzed.