Patent ID: 7050863

Claim:
A process control configuration system for use in creating or viewing a control block having an integrated optimizer and a multiple-input/multiple-output control routine, comprising: a computer readable medium: a configuration routine stored on the computer readable medium and adapted to be executed on a processor, the configuration routine including: a storage routine that stores information pertaining to a plurality of control and auxiliary variables and to a plurality of manipulated variables used by one or both of the optimizer and the multiple-input/multiple-output control routine, the information pertaining to the plurality of control and auxiliary variables and to the plurality of manipulated variables including response information for each of at least some of the control and auxiliary variables, the response information indicative of respective responses of each of the at least some of the control and auxiliary variables to respective manipulated variables; and a display routine adapted to present a display to a user regarding one or more of the control, auxiliary and manipulated variables, the display including a subset of the response information, the subset of the response information including response information indicative of responses of each of the at least some of the control and auxiliary variables to at least one of the manipulated variables.