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.

Thirty-seven years: Honeywell senior control engineer.
Five years: Pennzoil senior research engineer.
Eight 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