Model Predictive Control Wins Over Professional Football

Katherine Bonfante is senior digital editor for Control and ControlDesign. You can email her at [email protected] or check out her Google+ profile.Did you know that one of our Hall of Fame inductees could have been running for the Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl in 1967 but instead he chose chemical engineering as a career?

This same automation professional graduated from college and saved the petrochemical industry millions of dollars with his dynamic matrix control (DMC) algorithm.

Clearly, Charlie Cutler was born to be a star. Read the article "Dynamic Controller" and find out why Cutler put aside his professional football career  and instead joined the automation industry.