The Springer Verlag London has just published the book “Manufacturing Systems Control Design: A Matrix-based Approach”, coauthored by Stjepan Bogdan, Frank.L. Lewis, Zdenko Kovačić, and J. Mireles. The book is the result of more than 10 years of collaboration between LARICS and Prof. Lewis in the discrete events systems control area. The book contains valuable contributions from several LARICS students.