Patent ID: 8655477

Claim:
A method for cutting raw glass slabs into a multiplicity of glass cuttings, comprising the steps: (a) determining a supply of uncut and partially cut raw glass slabs, (b) continuously detecting incoming new cutting orders in real-time, (c) continuously detecting processed cutting orders in real-time, (d) continuously determining an optimised processing sequence and optimised cutting patterns of raw glass slabs based on values determined in steps (a) to (c) in real-time, (e) processing the cutting orders of step (b) according to the determined optimised processing sequence and the optimised cutting patterns, (f) storing and buffering the glass cuttings in dynamically assigned compartments of an intermediate storage unit by means of a calculating device controlled as a function of the optimised processing sequence determined in step (d), and (g) sequenced removal of the glass cuttings from the intermediate storage unit, the compartments of the intermediate storage unit being charged with and emptied of glass cuttings simultaneously.