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Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wieland, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, and R. M. Fujimoto, eds. A GLASS FLOAT LINE SIMULATION: MODELING METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS Scott R. Schultz Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mercer University 1400 Coleman Ave. Macon, GA 31207 ABSTRACT The cutting schedule also contains the standard removal rate for each glass panel. The velocity for each spurline is A glass float line begins as a continuous process, liquid set as a function of the removal rate for panels routed to glass in a furnace, being pulled down a cooling conveyor that spurline. Because each glass panel may contain a dif- in a continuous ribbon of glass. The process then becomes ferent removal rate, every spurline can be running a differ- discrete as the ribbon is scored and broken into individual ent velocity. This factor complicates the development of streams. Using some insight, a simulation model is devel- efficient cutting schedules. oped that is strictly discrete. Four applications of the Another complicating factor for developing efficient model are presented. The first demonstrates how the schedules is the cutting algorithm. The cutting algorithm model assists with the