“…This kind of systems can be found in several industrial fields such as robot manipulation (Tan, Huang, Lee & Tay, 2003), injection molding (Yao, Gao & Allgöwer, 2008), batch processes (Bonvin et al, 2006;Lee & Lee, 1999; and semiconductor processes (Moyne, Castillo, & Hurwitz, 2003). Because of the repetitive characteristic, these systems have two count indexes or time scales: one for the time running within the interval each operation lasts, and the other for the number of operations or repetitions in the continuous sequence.…”