omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
BPM Everywhere. BPM Everywhere (BPME) represents a strategy for coping, and possibly exploiting, the disruption that is anticipated as a result of structural changes due to technical progression known as the Internet of Things (IoT).  IoT will substantially increase the number of devices connected together  and will increase the complexity of those connections.

IoT is expected to cause the practitioners of Business Process Management (BPM), a well-established discipline concerned with management and optimizing an organizations processes, to face a number of critical issues.

In November 2014, IT Industry magazine, Information Age said that "Simply because they connect, communicate and analyse doesn’t make an IoT thing productive or useful. To be impactful, IoT technologies need to solve real problems that typically involve multiple collaborating activities that include people, systems, and 'things'."

According to Dr. Setrag Khoshafian, a leading expert in Business Process Management (BPM), "the real transformation of the IoT will occur through the 'end-to-end digitization of processes.'"

BPME is an approach that leverages traditional business process modeling techniques together with process mining and process analytics in order to automate and distribute the job of discovering, measuring, and improving the processes.   Nathaniel Palmer, leading analyst in the field of BPM and Director of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), sees BPME as a next-generation application development platform, combining the ability to quickly adapt processes with the ability to more cost-effectively design and build better applications   Palmer views this as one most significant shifts in the way applications are currently built, as well as shift for 3-tier to 4-tier architectures.

The impact of IoT on the business world in the coming decade has been compared to the impact of smart phones on the previous decade.   BPME is one among several potential resolution strategies, which includes Social internet of Things.

Surendra Reddy, CEO of Quantiply said "People, Things and Processes that run in this connected world leave behind vast digital footprints of these processes, things, people, interactions, and daily rhythms of the society. As a result, the Internet is a powerful tool to persuade, connect and engage humans and things alike serving as the common fabric of interconnection among everything". Whilst Nathaniel Palmer suggests "Not even the emergence of the Web and Internet-based “digital native” business models can compare with the level of intimacy now available with your customers".

See also 
 Business Process Management
 Workflow Management Coalition

References

External links 
 Workflow Management Coalition Organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM
 BPM.COM Destination for articles, news, research and white papers on Business Process Management, Process Modeling, Business Rules, and Case Management

Internet of things
Business process management
Neuroelectrics. Neuroelectrics is a Barcelona-based Spanish company which produces devices to stimulate and treat the brain. Founded in 2011, it is a spin-off of Starlab Neuroscience Research which was established in 2000. 

The company was founded by Ana Maiques, CEO, and her husband Giulio Ruffini, both of whom had originally worked in Barcelona for the Belgian research company Starlab until it declared bankruptcy.  

Neuroelectrics currently markets two medical devices: 
 Enobio is a wireless and wearable brain monitoring device that record electroencephalogram (EEG). 
 Starstim is a hybrid brain stimulator that combines EEG with the three types of non-invasive electric stimulation: direct current (tDCS), alternating current (tACS) and random-noise (tRNS) stimulation. 

Maiques believes they could find applications in monitoring the early development of Parkinson's or Alzheimer's in order to combat worsening conditions.

In February 2014, the company opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2014, Ana Maiques won third prize in the European Commission's Women Innovator Contest for her entrepreneurial vision. In April 2015, Neuroelectrics won the Bupa Startup Stage at Wired Health 2015.

Accreditations

Both Starstim and Enobio are CE certified medical devices targeted to the medical and research communities. The US Federal law classifies both Starstim and Enobio as investigational devices. Other accreditations include Health Canada Medical Device License Approval for both Starstim and Enobio. Starstim complies with the European legislation for medical devices for the treatment of pain, stroke, depression and addictive disorders.

References

Manufacturing companies based in Barcelona
Technology companies of Spain
Technology companies established in 2011
Brain–computer interface
Craig Chambers. Craig Chambers has been a computer scientist at Google since 2007. Prior to this, he was a Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from MIT in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1992. He is best known for the influential research language Self, which introduced prototypes as an alternative to classes, and code-splitting, a compilation technique that generates separate code paths for fast and general cases to speed execution of dynamically typed programs. He was the PhD advisor of Google's current chief scientist, Jeff Dean.

References

Living people
Programming language designers
Programming language researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Washington faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Stanford University alumni
Lock-on after launch. Lock-on after launch (LOAL) is the ability of missile systems to lock-on to a target after being launched from a carrier vehicle. The term is normally used in reference to airborne weapons, especially air-to-air missiles, though more modern Air-to-surface missiles and Surface-to-surface missiles are starting to display this capability as well. Most, if not all Loitering munitions are incapable of LOBL targeting (definition below), and thus use LOAL targeting. LOAL is an important part of modern weapon systems as it allows a weapon to be carried internally (onboard an aircraft) to increase stealth and then to acquire a target once it has been launched.

LOAL systems normally rely on cuing from a helmet-mounted sight or onboard sensors such as radar or forward-looking infrared (FLIR) and use a simple strapdown inertial guidance system to know where to look after launch. Examples of LOAL weapons include the Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM), later versions of the AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missile as well as the LR, LR2, ER, ER2 and NLOS variants of the Spike anti-tank missile.

The older method of launch has retroactively become known as lock-on before launch (LOBL), although this term is not commonly used and is a "backronym" that distinguishes it from the LOAL method.

See also
Index of aviation articles

References

External links

Aerial warfare strategy
Air-to-air missiles
Air-to-surface missiles
Military radars
Space Ranger (device). The Space Ranger was a propane-fueled vertical take off personal transporter, similar to a platform jet pack, developed by Richard Timewell, a Canadian sheet metal worker based in a small office at Boeing Field. The transporter was advertised in several issues of Popular Science magazine during 1977–1978. United Press International's Seattle bureau on April 10, 1978, issued an article including an interview with Timewell, who stated that only one completed Space Ranger had been sold, and that he was "working out a few bugs" after hitting trees and starting fires.

References

Science fiction themes
Aircraft configurations
Ultralight aircraft
Technic'air Fly Roller. The Technic'air Fly Roller is a French powered parachute that was designed by Pierre Allet and produced by Technic'air of Belvès. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

The aircraft was introduced about 1999 and production ended when the company went out of business in 2003.

Design and development
The Fly Roller was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category and the U.S. FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. It features a parachute-style wing, single-place accommodation, tricycle landing gear and a single  JPX D-320 engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft carriage is a simple frame design, built from steel tubing. In flight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw. On the ground the aircraft has no nosewheel steering. The main landing gear incorporates spring rod suspension.

A two-seat version, the Technic'air Flyroller Magnum Biplace, was also developed.

Operational history
The designer, Pierre Allet, flew an example of the Fly Roller across the Mediterranean Sea.

Specifications (Fly Roller)

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Fly Roller
1990s French sport aircraft
1990s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Powered parachutes
List of equipment of the Malaysian Army. The equipment of the Malaysian Army can be subdivided into: ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, radar, air defence, infantry weapons and attire.

Ground vehicles

Unmanned aerial vehicles

Aircraft

Watercraft

Radar

Air defence

Infantry weapons

Attire

Historical equipment

Ground vehicles
FV101 Scorpion
Alvis Stormer
 SIBMAS
 Condor APC
Cadillac Gage Commando
Panhard AML
Panhard M3
Ferret
 Daimler

Artillery
FH-70 Field Howitzer

Procurement
Since the recovery from the 1997 economic crisis, Malaysian Army, along with other branches of the Malaysian Armed Forces, has regained momentum in its modernising programs.

See also
 List of equipment of the Royal Malaysian Navy
 List of equipment of the Royal Malaysian Air Force
 List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces
 List of equipment of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
 List of vehicles of the Royal Malaysian Police
 List of police firearms in Malaysia

References

 
 

Army equipment
Equipment
Malaysian
Army
Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering. The Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE; ) is a professional organization for electrical engineers in China. It was founded in 1934 in Shanghai, as the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineers. , its members include over 120,000 individual engineers and over 1000 organizations.

The CSEE is a member of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
It includes 33 provincial societies, 56 study committees on subtopics within electrical engineering, and 12 working committees. Together with the electrical engineering organizations of several other Asian countries, it is a sponsor of the annual International Conference of Electrical Engineering. Its flagship academic journal, founded in 1964 and produced in cooperation with CAST and the China Electric Power Research Institute, is the Proceedings of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering.

See also
List of engineering societies

References

External links

Scientific organizations established in 1934
Engineering societies based in China
CSEE. CSEE is an initialism that may stand for:
Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering, a predecessor of the Canadian Society of Electrical and Computer Engineering and IEEE Canada
Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (Tanzania) 
Certificate of Secondary Education Examination in the United Kingdom
Certified Sport Event Executive, an accreditation offered by the National Association of Sports Commissions
Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering
Civil, structural and environmental engineering
Compagnie de Signaux et d'Entreprises Electriques, a division of Ansaldo STS
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura. The Administración de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias Sociedad del Estado (ADIFSE), trading as Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura, is an Argentine state-owned company created in 2008 to manage rail construction and maintenance in Argentina. It is a division of the Ferrocarriles Argentinos S.E. holding company.

History 
Before railway privatisation in Argentina, railway infrastructure was managed by the original Ferrocarriles Argentinos. After FA was formally declared in liquidation, railway infrastructure administration was left in the hands of a new organism called Ente Nacional de Administración de Bienes Ferroviarios (ENABIEF, in English: National Entity for the Administration of Railway Assets), created in 1996.

In 2000 ENABIEF was fused with the Dirección Nacional de Bienes del Estado, as part of the National Organism for the Administration of Assets (ONABE), which was formed to administrate all state assets, including the railways.

Throughout the period of private management of the railways, it was the contractual obligation of the operators (assigned through competitive bidding) to maintain the railway infrastructure they were operating, rather than the state, which simply allocated parts of the railways to different companies. However, the vast majority of private companies failed in their contractual obligations to maintain the infrastructure. This was one of the reasons for the eventual renationalisation of the railways.

On 25 March 2008, ADIF was formed, taking over the management all railway assets which had been under ONABE. As a whole, ADIFSE tends to assign infrastructure projects through public bidding for different projects. In May 2015, the  new Ferrocarriles Argentinos holding company was created, and ADIFSE became one of its three subsidiaries, along with SOFSE (passenger services) and TACyL (freight). The budget of ADIFSE in 2015 was AR$ 9 billion.

The company is a minority (49%) shareholder in a joint venture with the German company Vossloh called Vossloh Cogifer Argentina SA, with a production plant located near the city of La Plata.

References

External links
 

Railway infrastructure managers
Railway companies of Argentina
Railway companies established in 2008
Government-owned railway companies
Government-owned companies of Argentina
Technic'air. Technic'air was a French aircraft manufacturer based in Belvès. The company was founded by Pierre Allet, a paraglider pilot who had been on the 1991 French national team. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight categories.

The company seems to have been founded about 1998 and gone out of business in 2003.

During its time in business the company designed and produced a range of very simple and inexpensive powered parachute designs. These included the Technic'air Fly Roller which Allet flew across the Mediterranean Sea on one demonstration flight. Other designs were the Strato Light, Strato Micro, the Fly Roller Light and the two-place Flyroller Magnum Biplace.

Company designs were used to set three world records and were the aircraft of choice of Jacky Moussy, when he became French Microlight Champion in 1998.

The business included a paraglider dealership and CFR Périgord, an ultralight flight training school.

Aircraft

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France
Ultralight aircraft
Powered parachutes
PRM TSI. The Technical Specifications of Interoperability relating to "persons with reduced mobility" (PRM TSI) is a set of supranational technical standards designed to ensure accessibility for individuals with disabilities and reduced mobility within the rail systems of Europe (including United Kingdom). A part of the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) framework, it was established by the European Union initially as a decision in 2007, and subsequently as a regulation, in 2014.

The PRM TSI aims to enhance accessibility by addressing various aspects of rail infrastructure and rolling stock, including platform heights, platform gaps, accessibility of passenger train toilets and other facilities, and provision of assistance and information for passengers. In the United Kingdom, it superseded the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations (RVAR) for main line passenger rail but not for light rail such as trams.

To ensure effective implementation, the European Railway Agency (ERA) has published a guide outlining the PRM TSI requirements and recommendations for compliance. After Brexit, United Kingdom's Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) established the National Technical Specification Notice Mirror Group (PRM TSI/NTSN MG) to continuously review the standards and advise the Department for Transport on their implementation. The PRM TSI is subject to periodic updates, with the most recent revision in 2023. As the standards are being heightened, railways operators are obligated to periodically make significant expenditures to ensure compliance.

References 

Rail transport in Europe
Accessible transportation
European Union regulations
Sperry Land and Sea Triplane. The Sperry Land and Sea Triplane was an American three seat amphibious aircraft designed as a coastal reconnaissance/bomber. Two examples were built and tested for the U.S. Navy towards the end of the First World War. The machine performed well on land and water, but no orders were placed.

Design and development 
Aircraft designer and aviation pioneer Alfred Verville working with Lawrence Sperry, conceived the aircraft to perform a similar role as the Curtiss HS series of flying boats, with the added ability to operate from land bases. The machine was an equal span two bay triplane with N-type interplane struts of all wood construction.
Power was provided by a  Liberty L-12 water cooled engine turning a four bladed fixed wooden propeller in a pusher configuration.

The outrigger style empennage consisted of a single large vertical stabilizer and tailplane connected to the center main wing with two horizontal tubular spars. Two vertical struts were attached to the aft end of each tube spar and met at the extreme rear of the fuselage forming a very robust triangular  structure.
The high mounting of the tail was designed to prevent damage in heavy seas. When operating on the water with the engine off, the craft was much more seaworthy running "backwards" into the wind due to its hull design. Because of this, a unique tailskid could be folded down into a vertical drag position to make the machine lie tail into the wind.

The retractable hand-operated main landing gear pivoted upward to allow take offs and landings on water and the  wheel assemblies could also be jettisoned after takeoff, increasing range and performance, but necessitating a water landing. The Sperry Land and Sea Triplane was one of the first American aircraft to make use of retractable landing gear, developed by Sperry in 1915.

Specifications

See also
 List of flying boats and floatplanes
 Flying boat

References

External links
Sperry Amphibious Triplane images

Sperry aircraft
Verville aircraft
Amphibious aircraft
Triplanes
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1918
List of equipment of the Royal Malaysian Air Force. The equipment of the Royal Malaysian Air Force can be subdivided into: aircraft, munition, tactical decoy, pod, radar, air defence and firearm.

Aircraft

Munition

Tactical decoy

Pod

Radar

Air defence

Firearm

See also
 List of equipment of the Malaysian Army
 List of equipment of the Royal Malaysian Navy
 List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces
 List of equipment of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
 List of vehicles of the Royal Malaysian Police
 List of police firearms in Malaysia

Notes

References

 
Royal Malaysian Air Force
Malaysian Air Force
Air Force equipment
Barber Snark. The Barber Snark is a two-seater kit-plane, designed and built in New Zealand by Bill Barber.  It first flew in late 1987. Only some five aircraft have been built.

Design and development
The Snark is a tricycle aircraft of composite construction.  Its glider-like cockpit accommodates a pilot and passenger in tandem, the passenger sitting behind and higher than the pilot. The centrally mounted shoulder-wing lies behind the pilot, who has unrestricted visibility. The  Suzuki engine is sited behind the cockpit, driving a pusher propeller.  Wing control surfaces on the third Snark were flaperons, while the fourth aircraft had conventional ailerons and flaps.  Above the propeller, and aft of the cockpit is a slender boom to the empennage comprising a T-tail with a high-mounted tailplane.

The Snark's tandem layout, its small frontal area, and its low wetted area mean that the aircraft has excellent performance, being able to cruise at over 110 knots despite having an engine output of only 80 bhp.

Reception

The Snark received positive reviews in the UK and NZ press.  Former RNZAF Squadron Leader and aviation journalist Tim Cripps wrote in Pilot magazine, "this is the most enjoyable of the many aircraft I have flown - and that includes the Hunter".  Similarly, David Laing, a former WWII pilot who built the fourth Snark, declared it to be "one of the nicest planes I've ever flown".

Specifications (Barber Snark)

References

External links 

Barber Snark
Background and images

Homebuilt aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Aircraft manufactured in New Zealand
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1987
Charles F. Haglin. Charles F. Haglin (April 7, 1849 – February 23, 1921) was an architect, engineer, and contractor notable for his work in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Life and career
Haglin was born in Hastings, New York to a farming family. He attended local schools before finding work as a draftsman with a Syracuse, New York architect. He spent several more years working in Chicago, Illinois before moving to Minneapolis in 1873. He formed a partnership with Franklin B. Long for three years, doing business as Long & Haglin. After parting ways, Haglin briefly partnered with Charles Morse before embarking on a solo career. In 1909, he partnered again with B. H. Stahr. In 1920, he formed a company with his sons Charles Jr., Edward, and Preston called C. F. Haglin & Sons. Among the buildings Haglin was involved in are Minneapolis City Hall (1888-1909), the Peavey–Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator (1899–1900), Rand Tower (1929), and Old Main at Augsburg University (1901). Haglin died in Long Beach, California in 1921.

References

19th-century American architects
1849 births
1921 deaths
People from Hastings, New York
20th-century American architects
Soho TMD. Soho TMD is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. It is located in Smethwick's industrial area of Soho on the boundary with Birmingham, its depot code is SO. The depot is approximately  west of Birmingham New Street station. The Depot serves the Cross-City Line.

Operations
Soho was purpose built as a depot for maintaining the former West Midlands based  EMU fleet.

Soho is operated by West Midlands Trains having been transferred over from the former London Midland franchise in 2017. Before that it was operated by Central Trains until 11 November 2007. 

It is the home depot for WMT's Class 730/0 EMU fleet, where most maintenance of the units takes place, it is also used to stable  EMUs.

References

Sources

Railway depots in England
Rail transport in Birmingham, West Midlands