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Kiln Schedule Designer

Plan, visualize, and explain kiln firing schedules for fused glass work.

Build a readable firing plan with ramp rates, target temperatures, holds, and a visual curve you can explain before you program the kiln.

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Finished kiln schedule generated in the Kiln Schedule Designer app.

What it does

Plan the firing before you touch the controller.

Kiln Schedule Designer turns a firing goal into a studio-friendly schedule sheet. It keeps the segment table, heat curve, project context, and notes together so a schedule is easier to review, adapt, and repeat.

Three useful ways to use it

Turn a studio question into a next step.

  1. Turn a firing goal into a readable ramp/hold schedule.
  2. Show the firing curve beside the segment table.
  3. Create a clearer studio record for notes, tests, and repeat firings.

Where it fits

Part of the My Glass Cookbook family.

The Portal is the free learning layer. This tool is part of the practical bench that helps you move from reference material into glass choices, schedules, templates, notes, and repeatable studio decisions.

Keep going

Hand-drawn kiln schedule notebook diagram with a kiln, sample tiles, and a heat curve.

Article

What Is a Kiln Schedule?

A plain-language foundation for reading a firing schedule as a map of heat over time — not just a peak temperature.
Hand-drawn studio notebook diagram showing three schedule building blocks with glass samples and a heat line.

Article

Rate, Target, Hold: The Three Building Blocks of a Kiln Schedule

How to read each segment of a kiln schedule and understand what the kiln is being asked to do next.
Hand-drawn five-phase firing notebook diagram with kiln samples progressing along a heat curve.

Article

The Five Phases of a Fused-Glass Firing

A practical map of heat-up, bubble squeeze, forming, cooling toward anneal, and annealing/cooling.

Source reference

Writing Firing Schedules for Fusing & Slumping

bullseye · Studio Tips

Source reference

Basic Kiln Firing (°F)

oceanside · Basic Firing Schedules