Following up from last month’s column [“Automatic Pumpdown Systems,” Nov. 5], author John Tomczyk discusses different types of automatic pumpdown control systems.

By Andrew Masuda, UCSB UC Santa Barbara professor James B. Rawlingshas been named the 2025 recipient of the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the nation’s top recognition for career ...

The blocks are Manufacturing Systems and Operations, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes, and Product Tooling and Assembly Engineering, with Manufacturing Competitiveness at the hub. Build ...

The engineering center "Automated Control Systems" (Moscow) in 2023 increased production by 28% to 5.5 thousand products. This is stated in the message of the Department of Investment and Industrial ...

Furthermore, 46 CFR Part 62 outlines the standards for vital system automation, which mandate that such systems must be designed to ensure safe vessel operation even under adverse conditions.

Human control over technology was a concern thousands of years ago when early humans sought to ensure safe use of fire. Later, control over horse-drawn wagons and eventually steam engines led to ...

Topcon Positioning Systems has announced 2D-MC, an automatic grade control solution for compact track loaders. Now available in North America, 2D-MC is a 2D machine control system that is designed ...

Dr Sean Anderson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield; He received the MEng degree in Control Systems Engineering from the ...