Abstract: A method and control apparatus are disclosed for providing incremental position regulation of industrial apparatus, and for synchronizing movement of the apparatus, where an illustration of such industrial apparatus could be a coke transfer hot car, moving along a track at the coke side of a coke oven chamber, in conjunction with the forward advancement of a pusher ram, in the direction of proceeding through a coking chamber from the pusher machine side thereof. The present method and control apparatus are characterized by generating pulses that are encoded to represent actual incremental position displacements of the pusher ram. These pulses are used in a feedback control loop for positioning and speed control for the ram, and the pulses are used by a central controller to produce signal pulses representing the desired displacement for the associated hot coke transfer car.