The high temperature air combustion system can effectively recover the energy of high-temperature exhaust gas, emitted by industrial furnaces, by heating up fresh air to achieve the benefit of saving fuel. The focus of this study is to establish a three-dimensional industrial continuous furnace model and to simulate the thermal flow field and the temperature variation of the workpiece in the continuous furnace. In this study, we discussed the operation logic of burners and the switching time for the furnace without workpieces. In addition, a set of operating conditions and was chosen to investigate the heating effect on workpieces by varying the moving speed of workpiece and the switching time of burners.