“…Harris (1989) showed that the minimum variance achievable, with a MVC, can be computed from routine operating data if the process time delay is known. Since then, there has been a multitude of research articles that consider important extensions (Desborough and Harris, 1992;Stanfelj et al, 1993;Huang et al, 1997), alternate benchmarks (Tyler and Morari, 1996;Kendra and Cinar, 1997;Swanda and Seborg, 1999), applications (Thornhill et al, 1999) and industrial perspectives (Kozub, 1996;Desborough and Miller, 2001) on this topic. The user is also referred to the exceptional coverage provided by Huang and Shah (1999) and Qin (1998) to this topic.…”