“…Examples of these processes include friction retard paper feeding (Fowlkes & Creveling, 1995;Samuel & LaValle, 1990), sheet metal stamping (Doolan et al 2001;Herron et al, 1998), injection molding (Krehwinkel & Schneider, 1988), wave soldering (Bechet et al, 1990), batch processing (Samsatli et al, 2001), thermonuclear fusion (Pacher et al, 1999), coal milling (Arauzo & Cortés, 1995), blast furnace combustion ("Aerodynamic Control of the Blast Furnace," 1981) and wastewater treatment (Masende et al, 2003;Smith et al, 1997). In each case, use of the concept as a performance optimization tool has involved the experimental determination of the upper and lower operational limits for critical engineered variables between which the performance of a functional parameter is optimized.…”