Abstract: An analysis and control device for glass furnaces is of the fuzzy-controller type and uses a control algorithm which receives information relating to the operation of the furnace coming from sensors and from detection means provided on this furnace, as well as set point values input manually by operators. This control algorithm delivers control signals to the various actuators and control means of the furnace. A predictive system, of the neural- and/or fuzzy-type is included which depends on the state of the furnace and on the information about the change in production over time. It defines the various set point values to be assigned to all the furnace actuators, so as to ensure optimum operation for each production phase. The set point values constitute input values for the fuzzy-logic algorithm which controls the furnace.

Abstract: Device for controlling the melting of the glass batch in a glass melting furnace, which automatically carries out all or some of the set of operations for controlling the operating parameters of the furnace as well as all or some of the set of operations for operating the furnace actuators, on the basis of the strategies that an operator carrying out these operations manually would employ, this device comprising: