ABSTRACT
The corollary of 'garbage in; garbage out' is 'great stuff in; great stuff out'. If we feed our mind with good ideas for controls then, when we need to design a control system, good, creative ideas will flow more easily. The control ideas in this part are organized into bite-sized chunks so that we can dip in where you like or just cram everything in, whichever you prefer. Doing so will change the ideas you consider first in a design situation, almost certainly towards higher-value mechanisms. Each idea is presented in a standard format called a design pattern that links the solutions presented with the situations where they are useful and the reasons why. The ideas are also grouped and linked together to make it easier to combine the ideas to solve specific problems. A summary of the ideas: controls generation applications, generic control design library, control patterns, process control framework and project control framework.
