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36 Chapter Two
2-7 Summary
Well, the party is basically over. The next chapter will start with the
heavy lifting, the mathematical stuff.
This chapter presented the SMILH concept, which you as a man-
ager probably used (perhaps unaware) to get promoted to your cur-
rent position. The pedestrian approach, which I advocate will be
tough to sell but in the long run, provides measurable benefits.
The road map to process analysis is another tough sell but it can
yield great rewards and it is a lot of fun to do.
If, in fact you or your group does develop a control algorithm, it
can be a painful experience unless you spend the extra money up front
and develop your system to be extremely flexible and accessible for
debugging.
OK, on to the math.
