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1. A process arrangement for carrying out a fully automatic setting process, in which a setting device drives a clip element into a component pilot hole, wherein the process arrangement has a transfer unit, a robot, to which the setting device is attached, and wherein the transfer unit is adjustable between a pickup position, in which the setting device grabs the clip element, and a setting position, in which the setting device drives the clip element into the component pilot hole; wherein the setting process starts after a transfer process, and, in order to carry out the setting process, the transfer unit is initially moved into its setting position and remains stationary there, and a setting piston with the clip element held thereon is moved from a retracted end position along a setting stroke into an extended end position in which the clip element is driven in by the setting piston, and, after the clip element has been driven into the component pilot hole, the setting piston is returned into its retracted end position, and the setting piston has a centering element by which a transverse movement of the clip element at a setting piston contact surface is prevented during the transfer process, and during the setting process in the course of the setting stroke, the centering element is brought out of centering engagement with the clip element, whereby the transverse movement of the clip element at the setting piston contact surface is allowed in order to realize a floating clip element support, by which a positional deviation between the component pilot hole and the clip element is compensated.
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