1. A control 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 and presented as a computerized model comprising a computer for analyzing the computerized model as a constrained optimization problem to determine an optimized schedule of process event times, and for determining a plurality of sequential intermediate schedules of process event times.