Control Engineers
Our consultants concern ourselves with the measuring device, the control block structures and algorithms, the final control elements, the operator graphics, and the process dynamics. We generally leave the DCS to the control system engineers.
Ralph J. McCloskey
Senior process controls consultant
49 years of experience working in process controls, process startup support, process design, and advanced controls.
Specialist in process control troubleshooting and PID control tuning, including evaluation of field instrumentation.
37 years: Honeywell Chief Engineer process control center of excellence.
5 years: Pennzoil senior research engineer.
8 years: UOP startup engineer
Neal J. McCloskey
Process Quality Controls analyst
Product Quality engineer specializing in product quality deviation analysis, by evaluating process metrics, feedstock variability, and performing statistical analysis to determine probable quality deviation contributors. Development of database structures required for quality tracking.
6 years: Semiconductor chip quality engineer
4 years: Quality research engineer (Phenolic resins and Biotech chip facilities)
1 year: WPI unit operations teaching assistant
Sachi Dash
Co-founder, Robust Control & Sensor Solutions. Retired Honeywell fellow.
40 years of experience in Operations, Research and Development in Industry including 6 years in Academics. Expertise include Robust Controls, Simulation, Modelling, Systems Identification and Optimization. After retirement codeveloped various easy to use and technically superior control solutions.
35 years: Link Simulation Systems, and Honeywell
5 years: Robust Control & sensor solutions
J. Ward MacArthur
Co-founder, Robust Control & Sensor Solutions. Retired Honeywell fellow.
Patent co-holder of Honeywell’s Profit Controller. Principal developer of the Honeywell’s Profit Design Studio (PDS), and the developer of the Robust Identifiers used in RLSTuner.
Senior Control Systems Architect and Computational Engineer with a 38-year career at Honeywell, specializing in robust control, MPC, CFD, optimization, and industrial automation. Inventor with 20+ U.S. patents, author of 45+ publications, and a globally recognized technical contributor with 3,100+ citations. Recipient of multiple Honeywell Technical Achievement Awards including the prestigious H.W. Sweat Award, presented annually to a select group of the company’s most outstanding scientists.