A production method for glass bodies, or for hollow glass bodies, in a section machine with a further plurality of production sections, wherein a production section of the production sections of the section machine is respectively assigned at least one glass mold of a plurality of glass molds, and a cooling of the plurality of glass molds with a cooling medium is controlled, and
- for cooling the plurality of glass molds, the cooling medium is supplied on a jointly shared basis, wherein the supplying of the shared cooling medium for the plurality of glass molds is jointly controlled and the shared cooling medium is assigned a plurality of absolute cooling medium parameters and the absolute cooling medium parameters are determined as cooling medium parameters that are shared by the plurality of glass molds,
- wherein the cooling medium is assigned as absolute cooling medium parameters that can be set jointly for the plurality of glass molds at least one cooling capability and a cooling pressure, which are set and subjected to closed-loop and/or open-loop control, wherein:
- on the basis of a desired cooling capability of the cooling medium, a cooling capability variable is determined by a primary actuating device, and the cooling capability variable is prescribed to a secondary actuating device,
- depending on the prescribed cooling capability variable, a cooling pressure variable is prescribed by the secondary actuating device on the basis of the cooling pressure of the cooling medium in such a way that a cooling capability of the cooling medium is made to approximate to the desired cooling capability of the cooling medium,
- a variable describing the cooling capability is a defined cooling output taking into account a mass and/or volume flow of the cooling medium, a temperature of the cooling medium and a humidity of the cooling medium, and/or
- a variable describing the cooling capability is a temperature of the cooling medium and/or a humidity of the cooling medium, taking into account a mass and/or volume flow of the cooling medium.