Careful monitoring is essential for safe furnace operation. Advanced monitoring is concerned with the global aspects of furnaces including the on-line heat balance ( the energy lost through various component of the furnace in comparison to the energy supplied), furnace wall integrity (preventing run-outs and costly maintenance) and in some cases complex or difficult to assess monitoring, such as uncovered-arc explosion risk.

Controls are an important part of all processes. Today's processes must be as efficient as possible and need to be adaptive to unexpected changes, relying on experienced professionals and advanced controls. Reduced process variability inevitably leads to increases in throughput. Hatch provides the tool to control complex and non-linear systems including neural networks, expert systems and fuzzy logic. In addition, Hatch has extensive expertise in metal process, including instrumentation.