¹⁰By “sequencing,” I mean the execution of all antecedent control functions prior to “downstream” functions requiring the processed data. If in a chain of function blocks we have some blocks lagging in their execution, other blocks relying on the output signals of those lagging blocks will be functioning on “old” data. This effectively adds dead time to the control system as a whole. The more antecedent blocks in the chain that lag in time behind the needs of their consequent blocks, the more dead time will be present in the entire system. To illustrate, if block A feeds data into block B which feeds data into block C, but the blocks are executed in reverse order (C, then B, then A) on the same period, a lag time of three whole execution periods will be manifest by the A-B-C algorithm.