omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Hermes protocol. Hermes is a machine-to-machine communication standard used in the SMT assembly industry.

It is a successor to the SMEMA standard, introducing improvements such as: simpler physical wiring (Ethernet), use of popular data transmission formats (TCP/IP and XML), reduced number of barcode scanners (required only once at the beginning of the line), transmission of board data (such as barcodes & dimensions) to downstream machines.

By the end of 2018 IPC has confirmed to recognize The Hermes Standard to be the successor to “the SMEMA Standard” IPC-SMEMA-9851, which has been the only globally accepted and broadly established standard for machine to machine communication in SMT with regards to PCB handover. Accordingly, The Hermes Standard was assigned an IPC naming code: It can now officially be referred to as IPC-HERMES-9852.

The actual version, IPC-HERMES-9852, version 1.5 version 1.2 provides an electrical SMEMA interface replacement and extends the interface to communicate such things as unique identifiers for handled printed boards, equipment identifiers of the first machine noticing a printed board, barcodes, conveyor speed and specific information about the product type.

Industry acceptance
The initiative was started by two companies: ASM and ASYS; by April 2017, 17 companies had joined. On November 14, 2017, Hermes received a Global SMT&Packaging Award in the category “Software Process Control” at Productronica in Munich, Germany. As of November 2021, 62 companies are members of the initiative.

Specification
 Munich, April 2017 release of Version 1.0
 Munich, November 2017 release of Version 1.0 Revision 1
 Shanghai, April 2018 release of Version 1.1
 San Diego, January 2019 release of Version 1.2
 Online, March 2021 release of Version 1.3
 Munich and Online, November 2021 release of Version 1.4
 Online, June 2022, release of version 1.5
 Anaheim and Online, April 2024, release of version 1.6
 Shenzhen and Online, November 2024, release of version 1.7

The specification is freely available for download from the project website. At the same time, the standard is available in the IPC Online Shop.

References 

Machine to machine
Emrax. Emrax d.o.o is a Slovenian electric aircraft engine manufacturer founded by Roman Sušnik and based in Kamnik. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of electric motors for light aircraft.

The company was founded in 2008 as Enstroj, to produce the Emrax line of engines, but the company name was later changed to Emrax. Initially located in Radomlje, the company was relocated to Kamnik.

The company is organized as a družba z omejeno odgovornostjo, a Slovenian private Limited Liability Company.

History
Sušnik conducted the first electric-powered aircraft flight in Slovenia and the third worldwide in 2005, but experienced an engine failure due to the design limitations of the commercial motor he used.  This led him to develop his own line of engines, the EMRAX (Electric Motor Roman Axial fluX) in 2008. This axial flux design became the basis for the production designs, built in different sizes and voltages for a range of aircraft installations.

Aircraft 
Summary of aircraft engines built by Emrax:

Emrax 2
Emrax 207
Emrax 228
Emrax 268
Emrax 348

References

External links

Aircraft engine manufacturers of Slovenia
Electric aircraft
Electric motor manufacturers
Slovenian brands
Ministry of Testing. Ministry of Testing, also referred to as the MoT, is a global software testing community that was founded by Rosie Sherry, who was longlisted for most influential woman in UK tech by Computer Weekly in 2017 and 2018, as well as listed in the Female Founders 101 list by BusinessCloud. MoT started out as a UK-based internet forum for software testers and quickly grew into an independent business that provides software testing conferences and Meetups around the world, and an online learning platform dedicated to the craft of software testing.

Members of the Ministry of Testing community consist of software testers and those working in software quality. The community created by Ministry of Testing aims to get its participants sharing innovative practises and ideas around software testing. Computer Scientists at the University of Maryland used Ministry of Testing (along with organisations) to recruit software testers for a study into identifying vulnerabilities in software.

The Ministry of Testing has teamed up with community members to run local meetups. There are 50 meetups across the world. According to Rosie Sherry, Brazil, and Greek meetups are some of the best meetups across the world. Specifically for the Greek meetup, she says, 'But our Athens group is just nuts and mad crazy. Their last meetup had 300 people attend. That's the size of a conference!'

TestBash

Ministry of Testing's first conference, named TestBash, was first held in Cambridge. Events have been described as having a strong community atmosphere and using innovative conference engagement methods, such as The UnExpo and 99-Second Talks.
TestBash software testing conferences are largely informal events, with talks addressing areas of innovation across of testing, quality and working in software development. There are now multiple TestBash conferences taking place in 7 cities annually around the world. In 2018 the first TestBash focusing specifically on technical testing and automation will be held, and named Test.bash();.

Online learning platform
The Dojo is a learning platform dedicated to software testing. MoT co-create all the learning materials and courses on their learning platform with active software testers in their community.

References 

Information technology organizations
Software testing
Adobe Dimension. Adobe Dimension is a 3D rendering and design software developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows operating systems. It was founded as Project Felix on March 28, 2017, and became Dimension on October 18, 2017.

Overview 
Unlike with other modeling programs such as SketchUp, models are not created in Dimension. Instead, Dimension is a photo-based mockup editor where models, photos and textures need to be created in third-party software before being imported into Dimension. Once in Dimension, models and images can be composed into arrangements before being rendered to photorealistic 2D images.

History 
Originally relying on the V-Ray rendering engine, Adobe switched to its own 3D rendering engine called Adobe Rendering Engine (ARE) with the release of Dimension CC2.2 in April 2019, and stated that support for external rendering engines may be considered in the future.

On June 23, 2021, Adobe released Adobe Substance 3D Stager, which is part of the Adobe Substance 3D Collection and not included with the Creative Cloud All Apps subscription. Adobe Dimension is still available and included in the Creative Cloud All Apps plan. Adobe has committed to providing support for the original Dimension program.

Dimensions 
Historically, Adobe released a similar program called Adobe Dimensions from 1992 to 1997, intended as an easy way to turn vector artwork from Illustrator into simple 3D renders, similarly to Specular LogoMotion or Alias Sketch!. It was discontinued in 2004, with some of its features then merged into Illustrator CS as Live Effects.

References 

2017 software
Dimension
Compositing software
Ferroboron. Ferroboron (FeB) is a ferroalloy consisting of iron and boron. The metal usually contains 17.5% to 20% boron and is used to produce boron steels.

Description
Ferroboron (CAS Registry Number 11108–67-1) is a ferroalloy of iron and boron with boron content between 17.5 and 20%.

It is manufactured either by carbothermic reduction of boric acid in an electric arc furnace together with carbon steel, or by the aluminothermic reduction of boric acid in the presence of iron.

Ferroboron is added to C-Mn and other  low-alloy steels to improve hardenability (see boron steel), and can also act as a nitrogen scavenger in steel, and in the production of NdFeB magnets.

See also
Iron boride
Boriding

References

Ferroalloys
Boron
Bernard Lewis (scientist). Bernard Lewis (1899-1993) was a major figure in the field of combustion and a founding member of The Combustion Institute.

Biography 
Lewis was born in London and immigrated to United States when he was a child. He was awarded a degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1923 and a master's degree from Harvard University in 1924. He received his PhD degree from University of Cambridge in 1926. He served as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota from 1926 to 1928 and then as a research guest at the University of Berlin from 1928 to 1929, during which time he met Guenther von Elbe whom with he collaborated a lot. He joined as a physical chemist at U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1929 and retired in 1953. During World War II, he served for the United States Army Ordnance Corps and served as director of propellants and explosives research in the United States Army Corps from 1951 to 1952. In 1953, he started the Combustion and Explosives Research, Inc. and served as a President until 1986. The Combustion Institute awards a gold medal  and a fellowship biennially in honor of Bernard Lewis.

Books

References 

1993 deaths
Fluid dynamicists
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Harvard University alumni
1899 births
British emigrants to the United States
Ikarus 250. The Ikarus 250 is a high-floor bus used as a coach for long-distance service. It was made from 1968–1989, alongside the smaller Ikarus 256, by the Hungarian bus manufacturer Ikarus.

Technical description 

Designed as a high-floor two-axle bus, the Ikarus 250 has a semi-self supporting body, with the engine installed under the floor at the back, following the configuration pioneered in West Germany by Setra in the 1950s and 1960s.  The body platform incorporates two airsprung beam axles, with the rear axle being a planetary axle. The axles have two hydraulic shock absorbers each. Twin tyres are fitted on the rear axle, whilst single tyres are fitted on the front axle. Their size is . The steering system is a hydraulically assisted ball-and-nut steering system. The bus has three different braking systems: A pneumatic dual-circuit braking system, an exhaust braking system and a spring-loaded parking brake.

An MAN D 2156 engine, built under licence by Rába, powers the bus. It is a straight six-cylinder, naturally aspirated, liquid-cooled, Diesel engine with direct injection, displacing . The rated power (DIN 70020) is , the rated torque (DIN 70020) . The torque is transmitted to a fully synchronised five-speed gearbox via a single-disc dry-clutch; a six-plus-one-speed gearbox was also available as a factory option. With the default five-speed gearbox, the bus can reach a top speed of . It seats between 42 and 46 passengers.

Bibliography 
Werner Oswald: Kraftfahrzeuge der DDR. 2nd edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, , p. 313

External links 

Ikarus buses
Coaches (bus)
Step-entrance buses
Vehicles introduced in 1968
Nikolay Buchholtz. Nikolay Nikolayevich Buchholtz (; 22 July 1881 — 14 December 1943) was a Soviet and Russian scientist and a specialist in the field of analytical mechanics. Major-General of the Engineering and Aviation Service, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Laureate of Stalin Prize.

Biography 
Nikolay Nikolayevich Buchholtz was born on 22 July 1881 in Ryazan. In 1914 he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University.

Head of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics of Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1930–1933. Professor (1931). In 1933—1938 — Head of the Department of Elasticity Theory of Moscow State University.

In 1938-1943 he was acting head of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics of Moscow State University (while the previous head of this department, Professor Aleksandr Nekrasov was imprisoned together with Andrei Tupolev). He also worked at Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.

Now he in the first place is remembered as the author of Basic course of theoretical mechanics textbook, which was first published in 1932 and for many years had been the primary book on the topic of theoretical mechanics for Soviet students.

He lived in Moscow, in Plotnikov Lane, 20. He was a parishioner and altarpiece of St. Nicholas Church of the Carpenters in Moscow.

Nikolay Buchholtz died on 13 December 1943 and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

References 

1881 births
1943 deaths
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Engineers from the Russian Empire
Soviet major generals
Soviet mechanical engineers
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Donald Nicoll. Donald Nicoll (25 April 1820 – 6 September 1891) was a British Liberal and Radical politician, businessman, inventor and author.

Inventions
Born in 1820, Nicoll started his career in trade, becoming the owner of sanitary works, as well as an inventor and maker of patented appliances for the interception and deodorization of sewage, and the filtration of water. Further, he developed improvements to fire escapes, fog signals for vessels, and electric and telegraph conductors.

In 1872, and in conjunction with Robert Sabine, ten miles of underground telegraph conductors were laid on a system he had secured a patent for. At the time of his death in 1891, he was also involved in bringing out a patent for paving roadways with hard Australian jarrah-wood, which he predicted to be cheap, clean and safe for horses.

Political career
Nicoll first stood for election was a Radical candidate at Frome at a by-election in 1854—caused by the death of the sitting Whig Robert Edward Boyle. However, Nicoll was defeated by Boyle's son and the Whig candidate, Richard, by 52 votes.

At another by-election in 1856—caused by the succession of Richard Boyle to 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery—Nicoll sought the seat once more. He was this time defeated by Boyle's younger brother, William George Boyle, a Whig candidate, by just one vote.

However, at the next general election in 1857, Nicoll successfully gained the seat, defeating Boyle and the Conservative candidate, Edward Thynne, with a majority of 70 votes, or 21.5%. However, standing as a Liberal in 1859, Nicoll was unseated by Thynne with a 34.8% swing against the Liberals.

Works
Nicoll was also the author of a number of books and pamphlets, including:
 Health and its Appliances (1884)
 Underground versus Overhead Wires (1887)
 The Telegraph and Telephone, considered in relation to Economy and Efficiency (1887)

Other activities
Nicoll was involved in numerous areas of public life, and he was awarded for being so. He was the Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1849, and became captain of the 29th North Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1864. He was appointed Commissioner for the City of London to the 1867 Paris Exhibition, receiving a medal and an honourable mention for an exhibit showing the properties of bitumen as an insulating material. The 1872 Moscow Exhibition and 1873 Vienna Exhibition also awarded him medals.

He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster, chairman of the Poor Law Amendment Society, and a life governor of many London charitable institutions. He was a member of each of the Society of Arts, the Inventors' Institute, the Spectacle-makers' Company, and the united Grand Lodge of Freemasons. In 1884, he was elected an Associate of the Institution.

References

External links
 

UK MPs 1857–1859
1820 births
1891 deaths
British inventors
English justices of the peace
London Regiment officers
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Sheriffs of the City of London
Georgy Butkevich. Georgy (Yuri) Vladimirovich Butkevich (; 24 August 1903 — August 1974) was a Soviet and Russian power engineer and a specialist in the field of high-voltage electrical equipment. Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences. Laureate of Stalin and Lenin Prize.

Biography 
Georgy Vladimirovich Butkevich was born in the village of Rusanovo, Odoyevsky District of Tula Governorate in the family of Vladimir Sergeyevich Butkevich, who was a professor of Moscow Agricultural Institute.

In 1927 he graduated from the Electrotechnical Faculty of Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Since 1926 he worked at Lenin Institute of Economics, and since 1934 he was the head of the Design and Construction Department of the first laboratory of explosive capacity in the Soviet Union, then was appointed head of this laboratory. Since 1946, he was also the head of the Special Design Bureau for High-Voltage Apparatus Engineering.

In 1927 he began working at Moscow Power Engineering Institute. In the late 1950s he was Deputy Director. In 1961—1972 he was the head of Department of Electrical Apparatus.

He was Doctor of Technical Sciences since 1938 (thesis topic "Ion-mechanical high voltage switch"), and a professor since 1939. In 1949 he was awarded the Stalin Prize of the third degree for the development and implementation of a new series of devices for high voltage switchgears; in 1962 he was also awarded Lenin Prize for participation in the creation of a complex of high voltage equipment with a voltage of 500 kV AC.

Butkevich was the author of 9 textbooks. He also played the violin and was a painter.

He died in August 1974.

Literature 

 МЭИ: история, люди, годы: сборник воспоминаний. В 3 томах, 2010, Москва. «Издательский дом МЭИ» с. 131.
 Доктор технических наук Георгий Владимирович Буткевич. (К 70-летию со дня рожд. и 45-летию науч.-пед. деят-сти) «Электричество», 1973, No 11

References 

1903 births
1974 deaths
Engineers from Moscow
Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni
Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Lenin Prize
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Soviet engineers
Viktor Brodyanskiy. Viktor Mikhailovich Brodyanskiy (; 16 March 1919, Rostov-on-Don — 21 March 2009, Moscow) was a Russian chemist and a specialist in the field of thermodynamics and cryogenic technology. Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences. Honoured Worker of Science of the Russian Federation.

Biography 
In July 1941, as a fourth-year student at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, he volunteered to serve in Red Army. He fought in tank forces and in motorized infantry — in Smolensk region, near Moscow, in Belarus; was twice wounded.

In October 1945 he continued his studies at Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, wrote his thesis under the guidance of Petr Kapitsa. Having graduated from the Institute with a degree in mechanical engineer, he worked at the All-Union Research Institute of Oxygen Engineering in 1949—1952, where he developed technological schemes for air separation plants. In 1952—1957 he was the head of the Gas Department of the 1st Moscow autogenic plant.

From 1957 to 2001 he taught at Moscow Power Engineering Institute at the Department of Industrial Heat and Power Plants, then — at the Department of Cryogenic Engineering.

In 1954 he defended his candidate, in 1968 — doctoral dissertation. Professor (1970). Member of the International Institute of Refrigeration.

Brodyanskiy was the author of more than 200 scientific works, including 15 monographs and manuals, some of which have been translated into German, French, Chinese and Korean.

References 

1919 births
2009 deaths
Scientists from Rostov-on-Don
Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering alumni
Soviet chemical engineers
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Rotron Power. Rotron Power Limited is a British aircraft engine manufacturer based in Semley, Wiltshire. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of Wankel engines for unmanned aerial vehicles, light aircraft and helicopters.

The company was founded in 2008 by Gilo Cardozo, who designed the company's first Wankel engine to power a paramotor flight over Mount Everest on 14 May 2007.

The company's RT300 is a Wankel single-rotor design that produces , while the twin-rotor RT600 produces .

Products 
Summary of aircraft engines built by Rotron Power:

Rotron RT300
Rotron RT600

References

External links

Aircraft engine manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Manufacturing companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in the United Kingdom
Companies based in Wiltshire
Henry Adolph Salvesen. Henry Adolph Salvesen  FRSE DL JP (5 June 1860–13 May 1924) was a 19th-century Scottish mechanical engineer and naval architect of Norwegian descent.

Life
He was born at Weedingshall in Polmont near Falkirk on 5 June 1860 one of at least nine children of Anna Nathalia and Johannis Theodore Salvesen who had come to Scotland from Norway in 1846.

He was educated at Blairlodge School in Polmont the Stirling Collegiate School. He then studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh training as a naval architect. He appears to have detached himself wholly from the family firm of Christian Salvesen but was perhaps involved in ship design for them. From 1882 he joined his father's firm of J T Salvesen & Co, shipowners, timber importers and coal exporters, based in Grangemouth. He also operated for many years from Greenock.

He was a keen car enthusiast, owning a 6 hp Daimler, a 10 hp steam-car of his own design, and a 12 hp Benz.

In 1923 (aged 63) he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Theodore Salvesen, William Archer Tait,  Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker and Sir Robert Blyth Greig.

He died at Lathallan House near Falkirk on 13 May 1924. The company of J T Salvesen & Co was dissolved following his death.

Family

His uncle was Christian Salvesen.

He was cousin to Edward Theodore Salvesen and Theodore Emile Salvesen.

He married Dagmar Marie Becker around 1880, and they had at least seven children, including Meta Natalie Salvesen (1883-1959).

References

1860 births
1924 deaths
People from Polmont
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
British naval architects
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish people of Norwegian descent
Harri Kulovaara. Harri U. Kulovaara is a Finnish naval architect and the Executive Vice President for Maritime & Newbulding for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Early life

Kulovaara was raised in Turku. He received a Master of Science Degree in civil engineering from the Technical University of Helsinki.

Career
Kulovaara designed two ferries for Silja Line, including the MS Silja Serenade. He was the Senior Vice President of Eff John International.

In 1995, Kulovaara and Njål Eide were hired by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd to run the company's shipbuilding. They oversaw the development of the MS Voyager of the Seas. Since 1995, Kulovaara has designed ten ships which were the largest passenger ship when launched.

He won the Elmer A. Sperry Award in 2016.

He is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde.

Personal life
Kulovaara lives in Miami, Florida.

References

Living people
Naval architects
Finnish expatriates in the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Enrique De Jongh Caula. Enrique Marcelo De Jongh Caula (January 16, 1931 – October 23, 2020) was a Cuban architect and civil engineer, and a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He received an architecture degree in 1955 from the University of Havana, and in 1987 a PhD in Technical Sciences with specialization in construction.

References 

Cuban civil engineers
Cuban architects
1931 births
2020 deaths