Modeling serves a variety of industrial purposes, from predicting properties of new materials to providing cost estimations for different production scenarios. It can also provide information about the physical and chemical changes that occur during materials processing, which is particularly useful for opaque processes that cannot be easily measured in situ—such as glass manufacturing.

Glass products have been manufactured for millennia, but there are still many unknowns surrounding their fabrication given the material’s complexity. As a result, many in the glass community have embraced modeling to help answer some of these questions.