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An assessment of current plant status and know where you are is the first major step in building a profit maximization project. This chapter deals with the holistic approach to assess the current plant status. How to assess the performance of the base regulatory control layer and the advance process control layer of running a plant is discussed in detail in this chapter. A performance assessment of the major process equipment and an evaluation of the economic performance of the plant against a benchmark are two key focus areas discussed in this chapter. An assessment of profit suckers and identification of equipment for modeling and optimization and an assessment of process parameters having a high impact on profit are two takeaways in this chapter. Readers are enlightened with an assessment of various profit improvement opportunities.