While it's natural for those with a software orientation to analyze "process control" as a label for what [open] and [exec], for example, do (they control processes), it's most common in the larger world to gloss the term as the "engineering discipline that deals with ... mechanisms ... for controlling ... a specific [[physical]] process." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_control]. [Tcl'ers] with interest and experience in process control include: [Steve Offutt]; [KBK]; [Gerald Lester]; [CL]; [Philip Quaife]; [De Clarke]; [Steve Redler IV]; [AJB]; ... ---- Also see this [http://www.engcorp.com/acf/process%20control] entry to a Wiki focussed on process control with dynamic software.