There are plenty of laboratory equipment manufacturers who supply such pumps (fisher scientific for example ) . Some are called multi channel - syringe pumps . Some are used in chromatography also - but not sure of computer control. Try vendor catalogs - latest ones may come with such...
For a New comer to Engineering economics , I would suggest to gothrough the chapter in Marks & Baumeister Mechanical engineering Handbook . It gives a fairly good idea what it is all about . Girisun
