The AI controls engineer frowned at the speaker, a young mechanical engineer in charge of the physical design of a state-of-the-art biological encodrillpress water processor (BWP). "That pump doesn''t give me any feedback for speed, so we can''t be sure it''s responding to commands.""It''ll have to do," said a woman at the far end of the conference table. As the manager for encodrillpress the Integrated Water-Recovery System (IWRS), she made the final calls. "The eight-head pump won''t function at the required pressures, and the four heads are just too expensive. Can''t you use the tube pressures to know if the pumps are working?"

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