METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING DEFECTS IN GLASS

A method and system for identifying defects in glass and generating an optimized cutting layout are provided. The method includes detecting the presence of defects in the sheets of glass by inspecting the sheets of glass or a glass ribbon before it is cut into said sheets of glass; identifying, using an identifier device, each of a plurality of sheets of glass (8) with an identifier (12); determining a severity criterion for each of said defects; generating, using a mapping device (6), a map of glass attributes for each of the plurality of sheets of glass (8), the attributes of a glass sheet comprising the position of the defects present in said glass sheet and the severity criterion of said defects; associating, using a computer system (21), the map of attributes of each of the plurality of sheets of glass (8) with the identifier (12) of a corresponding each of the plurality of sheets of glass; storing the map of glass attributes of each of the sheets of glass in a database (10); providing a customer with a level of access to information in the database (10) so as to allow the customer to retrieve at least part of the map of attributes of sheets of glass acquired by the customer, and generating, using a computer system, an optimized cutting layout for a glass sheet based on said at least part of the map of attributes.