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Vacuum Arc Remelting as the work horse for materials used in aviation industry including titanium materials have needs for superior process control to serve for better material quality. The last five years show an increasing order intake of furnaces using the vacuum arc technology. Besides the vacuum, two main process characteristics namely the melt rate control and the electrode feed control of the consumable electrode are the driven factors in product quality. The melt rate control was extended in time to serve for better hot topping practice designed for the application of non top shrinkage in ingot produced. The basics in electrode feed control were seldom changed besides add on developments like compensation of melting events on the controls. Today new ideas are coming up to expand the state of the art technology to serve for a better view into the process. The digital examination and the storage of data due to no limits in storage capacity and increasing working speed of computers allows an online examination of a wider range of process units and consequently the implementation into the controls.