* Contract lost: After $250-million investment, Hughes loses air traffic control system project to IBM.
During her internship, she worked on a control systems project, which was her first opportunity to apply what she had learned in her undergraduate coursework in a real world setting.
"Big industrial companies [have been] spending tens of thousands of dollars developing 3D printers specific to their applications, and if we use our control systems (Project Escher), it allows them to have a more compelling product to sell [more quickly]," she said.
Microsoft is going to launch its motion-control system Project Natal this year for the Xbox 360, and PlayStation is also planning to add a motion-control system to its PlayStation 3 hardware.
De Bedout, who joined the lab in 2000 with a freshly minted Ph.D., spent his first several years at GE working on a series of control-systems projects: for diesel engines, a robotic vision system for automating gantry cranes, and leading a small team working on the Department of Defense's Joint Strike Fighter Advanced Engine program.
A power plant Distributed Control System training project is described which forms part of a course on plant control systems.
The correct configuration of the control code is a critical part of every process control system engineering project.
For doing so, an efficient project control system needs to be used in which a negative (or even positive) signal is generated when the project starts to deflect significantly from the baseline.
However, extending the construction project control system to job sites is considered inefficient since construction sites are unconventional practice.
Roto, headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, has augmented its project control system with a formal help process that encourages workers to seek and provide mutual assistance.
