Challenges to hot iron by control engineers;Characterizing the inner structure of continuously cast sections by using a heat transfer model;Commissioning of a VIDP furnace linked to a horizontal casting machine for the manufacture of superalloy barstock;Constitutive models of steel under continuous casting conditions;Continuous casting of cylindrical blanks from nonferrous alloys;Continuous casting of semisolid AC4CH aluminum alloy produced using an inclined cooling plate。