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Preface
The genesis of this book lies in the history of process control achievements of
several aluminum smelting plants, in particular, New Zealand Aluminium
Smelters Ltd and Boyne Smelters Ltd. Many of the people who worked at
these plants in the 1990s have contributed since to the events and hard-won
insights about control that the authors have set out here for the production
and materials processing industries.
From 2002 until the present day, the authors have been engaged in indus-
trial plant improvements with many companies in Australia, the United
States, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Norway, Netherlands,
Germany, France, Ma ...