A method for building a model-based control solution is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, via a model-based control definition sub-unit, a first set of component models from a component model library and defining, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, a system model by interconnecting the first set of component models. Also, the method includes obtaining, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, a first model-based analytic algorithm from a model-based analytic algorithm library and associating, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, the first model-based analytic algorithm with the system model to generate the model-based control solution.