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Leonard W. Moore. Leonard W. Moore (November 26, 1933 – September 6, 2019) was the founder of Moore Industries-International, a manufacturer for the process control, system integration, and factory automation industries.
  
At the age of 16, he graduated from high school and attended Iowa State University, where he obtained a BS in electrical engineering. After graduating, Moore joined the army in 1953 as a weapons guidance specialist and spent time at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Bliss, Texas.

After returning from the US Army anti-aircraft artillery, where he taught radar and mechanical analog computers, he worked at Hughes Aircraft, Swanson Engineering, Ronan Engineering and Waugh Controls Corporation. At these companies, he created industry-first, practical and instrumentation solutions.

Moore founded Moore Industries in 1968. Working from a friend's garage/shop, Moore designed and built the first Moore Industries SCT signal converter, which soon evolved into a product line of six signal interfaces. In 1974, the company built its current headquarters in North Hills, California, which employs hundreds of people today.

In 1996, he was elected an International Society of Automation (ISA) Fellow. The fellowship distinction recognized Moore's contributions to the advancement of signal conditioning instrumentation and monitoring systems, including radio frequency interference and electromagnetic interference protection. His contributions to these fields include Moore Industries' miniMOORE line of multichannel signal conditioners, which received an Engineer's Choice Award from Control Engineering in 2009. Under his leadership, Moore Industries applied for and was granted 19 patents relating to electronic instrument packaging, signal conditioning and instrumentation, and monitoring systems.

In 2009, Moore became an honorary member of the ISA, the highest honor bestowed by the society, for his "contributions in the advancement of the arts and sciences of automation over a 40-year career of innovation, product development, and business leadership at Moore Industries". He was also a State of California Registered Professional Engineer in Control Systems Engineering and had a State of California General and Electrical Contractors License.

The company remains in North Hills, Los Angeles. It has nine locations in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.

In addition to his professional developments and contributions to the automation industries, Moore was an avid fun-seeker. He was a professional racecar driver and received a pilot's license at 73.

References

External links 
 Company website

1933 births
2019 deaths
American chief executives of manufacturing companies
Businesspeople from California
20th-century American businesspeople
Air Force Flight Standards Agency. The Air Force Flight Standards Agency (AFFSA) operates as a U.S. Air Force Field Operating Agency operating under the direction of the Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force.  AFFSA maximizes the effectiveness of Air Force global air operations by ensuring access to worldwide airspace in all weather conditions. The agency does this by providing accurate, relevant, and timely flight information and support services to Department of Defense, national, and coalition aviators. It also acts as lead command for the creation and application of criteria, procedures, and precision equipment for worldwide instrument flight operations, air traffic control, airfield management, and air traffic control and landing systems for the Air Force. AFFSA evaluates and capitalizes on emerging technologies to ensure unrestricted access to domestic and international airspace. It partners with Federal Aviation Administration, sister services, major commands, coalition partners, and host nations to maintain the consistency and accuracy of more than 81 airfields, 1,092 navigation systems and 8,214 instrument approach procedures worldwide. It performs combat flight inspections, oversees the Air Force airfield operations standardization program and instructs the Air Force Advanced Instrument School.

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Air Force Historical Research Agency AFFSA Page

See also

Flight Standards Agency
Military in Oklahoma
Plastic Ingenuity. Plastic Ingenuity, headquartered in Cross Plains, WI is a custom thermoformer of plastic and biodegradable packages.

Green practices

Plastic Ingenuity has made various efforts to go green by providing renewable resource packaging as an option to petroleum based products.  Other materials include PLA, PSM, and wood pulp.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources acknowledged PI as a member of their Green Tier Program where qualified businesses make binding commitments to superior environmental performance.  Smart recycling and energy strategies also set a strong example for other businesses to follow by bringing business and environmental goals together.  Located next to Black Earth Creek, a Class I trout stream, PI's Cross Plains facility has implemented rain gardens, a rock weeper dam, runoff filters and grassed swales to remove pollutants from stormwater.  Also implemented was a stringent pellet loss program to prevent spills of the small plastic pellets that serve as raw material, and 99% of scrap plastic is either reused or sold.

Due to the heat generated by compressors and vacuum pumps in the thermoforming process, Plastic Ingenuity has engineered a system to capture the heat from this process and utilize it to heat the warehouse during the winter months, thus reducing natural gas usage and capturing a potentially wasted heat source.

PI Installed 50 200-watt photovoltaic solar panels on the Cross Plains, WI roof top, which produce about 13,262 kilowatt hours of electricity per year.  Producing that amount of energy from non-renewable sources would dump 29,176 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Locations 
The company has seven locations.
Cross Plains, WI- Corporate Headquarters and Manufacturing Plant
Mazomanie, WI- Manufacturing Plant
Oxford, NC- Manufacturing Plant
Little Rock, AR- Manufacturing Plant
Tooele, UT - Manufacturing Plant
Monterrey, Mexico- Manufacturing Plant
Guadalupe, Mexico Manufacturing Plant

References 

Companies based in Wisconsin
Simulation-based acquisition. In the USA the Director for Test Systems Engineering and Evaluation (DTSE&E) commissioned in 1995 a one-year study to assess the effectiveness of the use of M&S in weapon systems acquisition and support processes.

The DTSE&E study developed an approach to acquisition which was named simulation-based acquisition (SBA).

DTSE&E was disestablished  by the US Secretary of Defense on 7 June 1999; some functions were transferred to the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E).

See also
 Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office
 Modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center
 NDIA

References

Military technology
Military terminology
Military simulation
Driggs Dart. The Driggs Dart was an American-built light sporting aircraft of the late 1920s.

Development

Ivan Driggs designed the Dart I single-seat high-wing monoplane in 1926. In 1927 he developed the design into the two-seat Dart II, which was a sesquiplane - a biplane whose lower wing area is less than 50% of the area of the upper wing.

Operational history

Three examples of the Dart I monoplane were constructed and the type won the 1926 Ford Air Tour category for light planes. One was tested by the U.S. Army Air Corps as an observation aircraft, but no orders were received.

The Dart II sesquiplane followed in 1927, at least four examples being built by Driggs and some further planes by amateur constructors from plans during the early 1930s. A Dart II is maintained in airworthy condition by the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum at Dauster Field Creve Coeur, Missouri near St Louis.

Variants

Dart I  Single-seat parasol monoplane powered by a  Anzani 3 air-cooled radial engine.

Dart II  Two-seat sesquiplane powered by a  Anzani 3 or Salmson AD.9 air-cooled radial piston engine.

Specifications (Dart II Anzani engine)

References

External links
Aerofiles.com

1920s United States sport aircraft
Sesquiplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1926
High-wing aircraft
Saxon III. The Saxon Class III were early, four-coupled, tender locomotives operated by the Royal Saxon State Railways for express services. The Deutsche Reichsbahn grouped these engines in 1925 into their DRG Class 34.76.

History 
The Saxon III was built in 1871 and 1872 by the Hartmann (66 examples) and the  Maschinenfabrik Esslingen (21 examples). Fourteen of the Esslingen engines were subsequently given a Nowotny-Klien bogie instead of the original fixed leading wheels and were then reclassified as the IIIb.

The Reichsbahn only took over one of the unmodified engines - no. 274 BRÜNN and number her as locomotive 34 7611.

See also 
Royal Saxon State Railways
List of Saxon locomotives and railbuses

References 

 
 
 

2-4-0 locomotives
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Sächsische Maschinenfabrik locomotives
Esslingen locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1871
1B n2 locomotives

Passenger locomotives
Aprovecho. Aprovecho is the name of two non-profit organizations located in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Aprovecho Sustainability Education Center is a not-for-profit organization based in the vicinity of Cottage Grove, Oregon.  Its focus is on sustainable living, including permaculture and renewable energy. Its sister organization, Aprovecho Research Center, develops efficient cook stoves for use in developing countries.

Cook stove designs
Since 2001, Aprovecho Research Center has worked on designs for cook stoves, primarily for use in developing countries. They are best known for the Rocket stove, developed by Ianto Evans and their technical director Dr. Larry Winiarski. A number of variations on these stoves have been created over the years, often designed specifically to suit the country in which they are being used. Aprovecho also helps other designers by testing their stoves for emissions of different gases and particulates.

For 29 years, Aprovecho Research Center (ARC) consultants have been designing and implementing improved biomass cooking and heating technologies in more than 60 countries worldwide. The Center was formally established in 1976, and is dedicated to researching, developing and disseminating clean cookstove technologies for meeting the basic needs of refugees, impoverished people, and communities in the developing world. For decades, ARC has been the world's leader in open source development of all aspects of improved cooking stoves.

Sustainability education
Aprovecho Sustainability Education Center is a land-based education center focused on the practice and education of sustainable living skills. Twice a year the non-profit teaches internships in the area of organic farming, appropriate technologies and sustainable forestry. There is also a focus on, local food networks, food preservation, whole foods and nutrition, wild edibles and food foraging, bread baking, fermentation, seaweed and salt harvesting, seed saving and more.

Awards
In 2006, Aprovecho Research Center won an Ashden Award for their work with the Programme for Biomass Energy Conservation in Southern Africa (ProBEC) on efficient biomass stoves for institutional cooking, and again in 2009 for their work with Shengzhou Stove Manufacturer in China, for work to mass-produce efficient stoves for use in developing countries.

See also

 Renewable energy
 List of stoves

References

Further reading
Bilger, Burkhard. “Hearth Surgery - The quest for a stove that can save the world”. The New Yorker, 21 and 28 December 2009.  Pages 84 to 97.

External links
 Aprovecho Research Center
 Aprovecho Research Center Email Newsletter Signup
 Aprovecho Sustainability Education Center
Renewable energy organizations based in the United States
Stoves
ECAMI. ECAMI (Empresa de Comunicaciones, S.A.) is a renewable energy business based in Nicaragua, focusing on solar photovoltaics, wind power and hydroelectric system.

History 
ECAMI was founded in 1982 by Luis Lacayo Lacayo, to supply radio communications equipment in rural areas of Nicaragua where infrastructure had been destroyed during the prolonged civil conflict and revolution. Photovoltaics (PV) were the ideal way of powering this equipment, because there was no grid electricity. Many other opportunities for PV became apparent to Lacayo, like home lighting, battery charging, water pumping and refrigeration.

Over time, the provision of renewable energy systems became the main activity of ECAMI.

Work 
ECAMI routinely supplies and installs solar-homes PV systems in rural areas. ECAMI designs and installs PV-powered mini-grids to provide power for homes, hotels, museums and planned health centers in small communities.  Underground distribution systems connect all the users to the supply, with individual current limits to each facility. ECAMI installs PV supply systems for mobile phone masts, with considerable savings in fuel diesel.

In Managua, six hotels have been supplied with solar water heating systems by ECAMI. One with 50 m2 of panel area supplies 100 rooms each of which had previously required a 6 kW immersion heater, another with 16 m2 of panels supplies 40 rooms. About 150 domestic solar water heaters have also been installed.

ECAMI supplies and installs small wind turbines of between 400 W and 5 kW output, and can also install hydroelectric systems.

Impact 
Renewable energy systems installed by ECAMI have decreased the use of CO2 emitting fuels for more than 100,000 people in Nicaragua. ECAMI's systems provide longer hours of emergency service in health centers, the installations of water pumps that bring drinking water to distant communities, access to satellite internet, land irrigation, and longer and more efficient working hours.

Memberships 
ECAMI is a GVEP (Global Village Energy Partnership] partner. Other memberships include International Solar Energy Society (ISES), ANPPER Nicaraguan Association of Renewable Energy Promoters and Products, and ANPPER Nicaraguan Association of Renewable Energy Promoters and Products. ECAMI has work agreements with similar foreign companies, including Curin Corporation (United States), Isratec (Guatemala) Energy and Systems (Canada).

Awards 
On June 11, 2009, in London, Charles, Prince of Wales presented Max Lacayo the Ashden Energy Enterprise Award for ECAMI's achievements, particularly for the installation of high-quality photovoltaic systems in rural and off-grid areas. The Ashden Awards are an internationally recognised yardstick for excellence in the field of sustainable energy.

References

External links
ECAMI home page

Companies established in 1982
Companies of Nicaragua
Nicaraguan brands
Photovoltaics manufacturers
Renewable energy technology companies
Eichleay Engineers. Eichleay Engineers is a United States engineering firm.

History
In 1875, an innovative building inspector named John P. Eichleay, Jr. founded a structural moving business that would soon become renowned for completing projects believed by many to be impossible. The advent of the industrial age brought with it profound changes in urban landscapes of America. This transformation was perhaps no more evident than in John's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As the preeminent center of industry and technology at the time, small houses and buildings were being torn down to make room for larger ones, industrial plants were pushing residential neighborhoods outward from the rivers and railroads, and street railways permitted people to live further from their places of work. Believing that structures could be moved for only a fraction of the cost of demolishing and rebuilding them, John felt that all of these factors made for a lucrative business. They did! Although the projects undertaken during the early years were quite modest, they became increasingly bold and impressive as techniques were perfected and the reputation of the company grew. 

In 2002, the firm was placed into receivership due to financial problems. Split into two divisions, the assets of the firm were purchased by SNC-Lavalin and Pittsburgh-based S/D Engineers.

Eichleay Formula

The Eichleay company is noted for being the namesake of a formula used for pricing federal change orders and/or dispute claims.  In 1954, Eichleay was under contract for the construction of three NIKE missile sites in Pennsylvania.  The government changed the scope of work, resulting in change orders.  The process of delaying the work, however, resulted in losses for Eichleay due in part to maintained overhead costs during the suspension period.  The resultant ruling recognized that (1) a contractor should be entitled to compensation for unabsorbed overhead resulting from owner caused delay, and (2) there was, at the time, no accepted method of allocating home office overhead to a particular contract to determine the amount of compensation.

Notable employees
The firm at one time employed Andy Warhol's father.  
It also provided a day job to the cartoonist Scott McDaniel, prior to his full-time work in cartooning.

References

Companies based in Pittsburgh
Defunct engineering companies of the United States
American companies established in 1875
1875 establishments in Pennsylvania
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1875 
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
American companies disestablished in 2002
Model–test–model. Model–test–model (MTM) is a process that intends to use high-fidelity/high-resolution combat models to simulate and replicate field operational tests. The MTM Process is divided into 5 phases:

 Long-term planning – Identify the responsibility among interested organizations
 Pretest modeling – Modeler creates a model of a subject under test
 Field test – Modeler performs data gathering of subject under test
 Post-test modeling – Subject under test model input parameters are matched with subject under test–field–test output values
 Model validation/accreditation – Modeler provides sufficient evidence to a tester that a simulation adequately replicates field testing

See also
 Simulation-based acquisition
 United States Army Test and Evaluation Command
 United States Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

References

Military technology
Military terminology
Military simulation
Steyr 100. The Steyr 100 and 200 were a series of medium-sized cars built by the Austrian manufacturer Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG from 1934 to 1940. The four-door streamlined body designed by engineer Karl Jenschke was manufactured in Steyr, a 1933 prototype was assembled by Gläser-Karosserie GmbH in Dresden, Germany.

Design 

The cars had a four-cylinder straight engine and a four-speed manual gearbox driving the rear wheels on a leaf spring swing axle suspension, a layout already introduced by Steyr on larger cars. The independent front suspension, however, was a first for the company. The four-speed transmission had synchronizations on the top two gears, while the 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine received five main bearings. A four-door saloon, two-door convertible, and a bare chassis were available, in addition to a light commercial model called the Steyr 110.

The 100 could reach a maximum speed of about . Though not high-powered they could easily climb the Austrian Alpine mountain passes, demonstrated by the Salzburg governor Franz Rehrl, when on 22 September 1934 he and engineer Franz Wallack travelled the Grossglockner High Alpine Road driving a Steyr 100, about one year before the official opening. In 1935-36 the Austrian travel writer Max Reisch crossed Farther India (Burma, Thailand, and Laos) in a Steyr 100 and continued his journey through the United States.

After 2850 vehicles built the design underwent improvements in 1936, creating the more powerful Steyr 200. An additional 150 examples of a light commercial Steyr 110 had also been built. One technical novelty for the 200 model was the starter motor, which also doubled as an alternator. The 200 also received an updated body, with a somewhat larger (still split) rear windshield. In late 1937 the grille was redesigned to match the larger 220 model, losing the central bar but gaining a "200" script, and of a convex rather than concave shape. 5040 such vehicles were produced until 1940.

See also
Steyr 120

References

Steyr-Puch vehicles
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Sedans
1930s cars
Robai. Robai is a company that develops robotics products for the consumer, research, and educational communities. Robai’s primary product is the line of Cyton robotic arms.  These robot arms have seven degrees of freedom and are kinematically redundant with a structural layout similar to that of the human arm.  They are able to reach around obstacles and reconfigure while manipulating objects.  Robai uses Actin robot-control software developed by Energid Technologies Corporation but, also provides an interface through Robot Operating System (ROS).  The Robai Cyton Gamma arm is being investigated for next generation light-duty manufacturing.

References

External links
 Official Website
 Recent News

Robotics companies of the United States
Companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Companies with year of establishment missing
UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger. is a 1976 animated short film that crosses over Go Nagai's super robots Grendizer and Great Mazinger. The movie features alternate versions of events from both series, and, as with the rest of the Vs. films, is not canonical to either one. The film was released in almost all countries where the original Grendizer and Great Mazinger series were also shown, most prominently in Italy, France and the Middle East.

Plot

After many attempts to destroy Grendizer and conquer Earth, King Vega sends General Barendos and his troops in a special mission. Before landing, Barendos stops at moonbase and warns the two officials there that in case of his success they will be both dismissed and killed. Barendos arrives on earth and captures Duke Fleed's closest ally, Koji Kabuto. While under a mind control in captivity, Koji reveals the history and location of both Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger. King Vega seizes the opportunity to capture the Great Mazinger, and then forces Duke Fleed and his Grendizer to do battle against Great Mazinger. Grendizer and Great Mazinger clash in battle until Grendizer manages to deactivate Great Mazinger using a special shot, suggested by Koji. In the forth chapter (titled Terror of the Two Demons) of one of the Grendizer manga adaptations,  Koji Kabuto and Tetsuya Tsurugi are mind controlled by a brain wave machine created by Vegan Commander Depel. This attempt was countered thanks to Boss Borot damaging Gepel's base and destroying the brain wave machine, ending the Mazingers from going on a rampage and destroying the city. The chapter ends in a battle between Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and Grendizer against Saucer Beast Zardan, with the heroes claiming victory.

Staff
Production Studio: Toei Doga, Dynamic Planning
Original work: Go Nagai, Dynamic Planning
Director: Osamu Kasai
Assistant director: Johei Matsura
Animation director: Kazuo Komatsubara
Scenario: Keisuke Fujikawa
Planning: Ken Ariga, Toshio Katsuta
Producer: Chiaki Imada
Art director: Iwamitsu Ito
Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi, Michiaki Watanabe
Theme Song: "Uchuu no Yuusha Grendizer" by Isao Sasaki
Cast: Kei Tomiyama (Duke Fleed / Daisuke Umon), Hiroya Ishimaru (Koji Kabuto), Joji Yanami (Dr. Umon), Chiyoko Kawashima (Hikaru Makiba), Kazuko Sawada (Goro Makiba), Kenichi Ogata (Blacky), Kosei Tomita (Gandal Shirei), Junji Yamada

See also
UFO Robot Grendizer
Great Mazinger

External links
UFO Robot Grendizer tai Great Mazinger  at Toei's corporate website

UFO Robot Grendizer tai Great Mazinger at allcinema 
UFO Robot Grendizer tai Great Mazinger at Animemorial

1976 anime films
1976 films
1976 manga
Mazinger
Super robot anime and manga
Anime short films
1976 animated short films
Kodansha manga
Toei Animation films
Films scored by Chumei Watanabe