to the stage 1 position see fig3 a it is an important aspect of the present invention that the stage 1 position be selected for the particular object being moved such that commanding the object to the stage 1 position will move the object close to its stop but taking into account any potential over travel or overshoot the object will not engage its stop at this stage of the control process as a result of such overshoot after the operation block 108 the control logic then proceeds to a decision block 110 in which the control logic determines if the valve 24 is at the stage 1 position plus or minus some predetermined tolerance t if the result of the decision block 110 is negative the control logic then proceeds to an operation block 112 which merely performs a u201c waiting u201d operation i e as the logic timer is incremented the operation block 112 senses that the timer has been incremented and permits the control logic to loop back as shown in fig3 to a location upstream of the decision block 110 when eventually the result of the decision block 110 is positive the logic then proceeds to an operation block 114 in the operation block 114 the control logic again performs a u201c waiting u201d operation in which the control logic now recognizes the likelihood that the position of the valve 24 has engaged in u201c overshoot u201d of its intended position i e the stage 1 position and the logic simply waits for the overshoot to u201c settle u201d i.