an intelligent control and regulating device , especially for use in the process technology for flowable substances and media , which is built into the housing of an adjusting drive mechanism or into the drive mechanism itself and which has an adjustment arrangement controlling an adjusting member via an auxiliary energy device depending on sensor signals . the inventive control and adjusting device , which reacts reliably and rapidly to changing ambient conditions , includes a parameterable process regulator which receives adjustment input signals from the external sensors .