Patent Document ID: 7489983
Application ID: 11202993
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A control system for a glass forming machine which includes a number of displaceable mechanisms and processes which are operated at discrete times within a machine cycle, wherein an event angle table defines the times in a machine cycle when each mechanism or process is operated, wherein the glass forming machine will transform a gob of molten glass into a bottle in a glass process that takes more than two machine cycles to complete, and wherein the machine cycle event angles are unwrapped into glass process event times of an initial schedule of the complete machine cycle and presented as a computerized model, the control system comprising: a computer configured to analyze the computerized model as a constrained optimization problem to determine an optimized schedule of process event times, and to determine a plurality of sequential intermediate schedules of the process event times, wherein a gradual transition of the control system from the initial schedule of the complete machine cycle to the optimized schedule of the complete machine cycle is determined, and wherein the glass forming machine is controlled based on the optimized schedule.