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IDEX Corporation. IDEX Corporation, based in Northbrook, Illinois, is a publicly traded company engaged in the development, design, and manufacture of fluidics systems, optics systems, fire and rescue equipment, and other specialty engineered products.

History
IDEX was formed in 1988, when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts purchased several divisions of Houdaille Industries, which had recently been sold by KKR to Tube Instruments. Its first chairman and CEO was Donald N. Boyce. TI retained the John Crane seals business.

The company's name is an acronym of "Innovation, Diversity, and Excellence."

Divisions
Business units are divided into three segments:
 Fluid & Metering Technologies
 Health & Science Technologies
 Fire & Safety / Diversified Products

Products
IDEX Corporation's products, which include pumps, clamping systems, flow meters, optical filters, powder processing equipment, hydraulic rescue tools, and fire suppression equipment, are used in a variety of industries ranging from agriculture to semiconductor manufacturing.

Recent acquisitions
In May 1994, IDEX reached an agreement to acquire Hale Product, Inc., of Conshohocken, Pa., for $90 million.  Hale sells fire-trucks, portable pumps, ventilation systems, and the Hurst "Jaws of Life". 

In January 1998, IDEX agreed to buy Gast Manufacturing of Benton Harbor, Michigan, for $118 million. Gast manufactures compressors, vacuum pumps, air motors and other products. 

In 2011, IDEX Corporation acquired The Fitzpatrick Company. 

In June 2018, IDEX Corporation announced its acquisition of Phantom Controls, Incorporated.  

In February 2020, they company acquired Flow Management Devices LLC., a company that created a metering calibration device for measuring oil and gas volume. 

In March 2021, IDEX Corporation completed its acquisition of Abel Pumps, L.P., and certain of its affiliates.

In June 2021, IDEX Corporation completed its acquisition of Airtech Group, Inc., US Valve Corporation and related entities.

In March 2022, IDEX Corporation completed its acquisition of Nexsight, LLC and its businesses – Envirosight, WinCan, MyTana and Pipeline Renewal Technologies (PRT).

In November 2022,  IDEX Corporation completed its acquisition of Muon Group and its subsidiaries  LouwersHanique, Veco, Millux, Tecan and Atul.

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Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Companies based in Northbrook, Illinois
Tool manufacturing companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Illinois
American companies established in 1988
Companies formed by management buyout
Savoia-Marchetti S.71. 

The Savoia-Marchetti S.71 was an Italian eight-passenger light transport designed and built by Savoia-Marchetti. The S.71 was a three-engine, high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear. It had a crew of four and room for eight passengers. The first four aircraft were powered by three 190 kW (260 hp) Walter Castor II radial engines, but the last three had 276 kW (370 hp) Piaggio P.VII engines.

Specifications (Castor-powered)

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S.71
1930s Italian airliners
Trimotors
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Doppelganger (2003 film). is a 2003 Japanese black comedy fantasy film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku and Yūsuke Santamaria.

In the film, a robotic engineer frustrated with his life (Yakusho) suddenly encounters another version of himself (also played by Yakusho), who acts very differently than he does.

Plot
At a medical instrument manufacturing company, timid engineer Michio Hayasaki (Kōji Yakusho) struggles to develop a robotic chair that could mobilise a clinically paralysed person. He realises he's not getting anywhere with it—not while his company keeps making demands and issuing deadlines on him. Highly stressed, Michio bitterly realises he doesn't have the courage to bite back.

Whilst arriving home from work, Michio is startled to find himself waiting on his doorstep. He soon sees it's not him, but a man who's the spitting image of him. Fearing he's having a mental breakdown, Michio wonders whether a legend that says one is destined to die soon after seeing their own doppelganger may be true. His apparent twin smoothly assures him that he has nothing to fear. Bemused, Hayasaki invites him to his home.

Michio eventually notices that while his doppelganger is identical to his looks, mannerisms and speech, the doppelganger's personality and attitude are drastically different from his own. Where he's too timid to get what he wants, his doppelganger has no qualms in getting what it wants. Where he's too afraid to speak out, his doppelganger speaks its mind. Where he's moderate with drinking, the doppelganger indulges heavily. Where he's detail-oriented, it doesn't pay much attention to details as it is more concerned with the result.

The doppelganger removes all sources of Michio's stress, reorganises his life for better, acquires all things he's yielded for, does rebellious things Hayasaki couldn't do, and assists with building the robotic chair that frustrates him for so long. Meanwhile, Michio learns to enjoy his doppelganger's seemingly nihilistic actions. However, he soon wonders whether his doppelganger has an agenda when he realises he's being dragged into madness.

Cast
 Kōji Yakusho as Michio Hayasaki
 Hiromi Nagasaku as Yuka Nagai
 Yūsuke Santamaria as Kimishima
 Akira Emoto as Murakami
 Masahiro Toda as Aoki
 Hitomi Satō as Takano

Reception
Josh Ralske of AllMovie gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars. Mike Bracken of IGN praised Kōji Yakusho's performance for "the difficult task of playing two characters who are the same on the outside but totally opposite otherwise." Todd Brown of Twitch Film felt that the digital composites used to double Yakusho on screen are simply perfect.

Tom Mes of Midnight Eye noted that the film has many similarities in particular with Kurosawa's own 1996 V-Cinema Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche, saying: "The cyclical structure of recurring events that formed the basis of that film's plot is reused in the final 30 minutes of Doppelgänger".

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2003 films
Films directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2000s Japanese films
Thales Fulmar. The UAV Fulmar is a privately developed unmanned aerial vehicle system, its main application being to aid fishermen finding tuna banks, due to its ability to perform sea-landing.

An alternative version exists, which can be operated from ground. It is launched by means of a catapult and recovered by a net, easing operation and reducing costs.

Operators

References

External links
 Official Website

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Spain
Shinjuku Sumitomo Building. is a high-rise building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Design
The building's three-sided construction makes good use of available space, yet the building's design sacrifices valuable floor space by including a massive atrium running the entire height of the building. The building's most recognizable characteristic is its shape and structure. It is most simply described as triangular (a more apt description would be a triangle with all the corners cut off), hence why one of its nicknames is 'the Triangle'.  Also distinctive is the visible emergency elevator, which is used to transport cargo and not everyday passengers.

Development
Construction began in November 1971 and was finished on March 6, 1974. At the time of its completion, its elevators were the fastest in the world at 540 meters per minute. It was the tallest building in Japan and Asia from March to September 1974, when it was surpassed by the nearby Shinjuku Mitsui Building. It was developed by Sumitomo Realty & Development, the real estate arm of the Sumitomo Group, and previously housed Sumitomo Realty's headquarters.

A pioneering skyscraper in Shinjuku, many companies are tenants of the building, as well as several restaurants. The free observation deck on the 51st floor was closed on April 1, 2017.

Popular culture
In the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla, the Sumitomo Building was knocked over by Godzilla, crushing and breaking the Super X.  Also, in the Doraemon film , the building was accidentally destroyed in the World Inside the Mirror by the huge robot Zanda Claus.

See also
 List of tallest structures in Japan

References

External links
Official web site of the building (in Japanese)
Shinjuku Sumotomo Triangle Street (in Japanese)

Skyscrapers in Shinjuku
Skyscraper office buildings in Tokyo
Office buildings completed in 1974
1974 establishments in Japan
Triangular buildings
Edwards v National Coal Board. Edwards v. National Coal Board was an important case in English case law. The 1949 case revolved around whether it was "reasonably practicable" to prevent even the smallest possibility of a rock fall in a coal mine.

Underlying facts

Mr Edwards died in an accident after the supporting structure for the mine roadway gave way. The National Coal Board argued that it was too expensive to shore up every roadway in all of the mines.

The case turned when it was decided that it was not 'all of the roadways' that needed shoring up; just the ones that required it. In essence this established the need to carry out a risk assessment to establish the cost, time and trouble to mitigate a risk balanced against the risk of any harm it might cause.

Asquith stated in his judgement:

Significance
This case established the concept of "reasonable practicability." The Court of Appeal decided that "reasonably practicable" was a more narrowly defined phrase than what was "physically possible." This allowed for the creation of equations that measured the risk present in a given situation against the reasonable practicability of mitigating that risk. In other words, the equation asked if averting the risk was worth the effort it took to negate that risk. In addition, the court in Edwards determined that the size and wealth of the company should have no bearing on such decisions.

See also 
 ALARP
 National Coal Board

References

1949 in British law
1949 in case law
1949 in the environment
Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases
English case law
Object Oriented Input System. OIS (Object-Oriented Input System) is a code library for constructing a human-computer interface with input devices such as a keyboard, mouse or game controller. OIS is designed so that software developers can easily use input from these devices with a computer application.

General information
The Object-Oriented Input Library is a mostly C++ library for handling input. Input types include mouse, keyboard, joystick and Wii remote.

OIS is meant to be cross-platform, supporting Windows and Linux systems. OS X and FreeBSD are only partially supported.

Features
OIS uses an Object-oriented design.

Various types of input including mouse, keyboard, joystick and Wii Remote are supported.

OIS can handle force feedback devices.

References

External links
 Project Homepage
 Project Repository (GitHub)
 Source-Forge project page (legacy)
 Ohloh project page

Free software programmed in C++
Software quality assurance analyst. A software quality assurance (QA) analyst, also referred to as a software quality analyst or simply a quality assurance (QA) analyst, is an individual who is responsible for applying the principles and practices of software quality assurance throughout the software development life cycle.

Software testing is one of many parts of the larger process of QA. Testing is used to detect errors in a product, while QA also fixes the processes that resulted in those errors.

Software QA analysts may have professional certification from a software testing certification board, like the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB).

References 

Software quality
Computer occupations
Systems analysis
LI-900. LI-900 is a type of reusable surface insulation tile developed and manufactured by Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, California. It was designed for use on the Space Shuttle orbiter as part of its thermal protection system to minimize thermal conductivity while providing maximum thermal shock resistance.

Statistics

LI-900 has a bulk density of 144.2 kg/m3, or 9 lb/ft3. Due to this material’s density being 9 lb/ft3 it was called the LI-900. It is made from 99.9% pure silica glass fibres, and is 94% air by volume. An LI-900 tile can be heated to  and then immediately plunged into cold water and suffer no damage.

Black and white tiles were used on the Space Shuttle to control the temperature of the vehicle while in orbit.

 White tiles (known as low temperature reusable surface insulation or LRSI) were used mainly on the upper surface and have higher thermal reflectivity. These are therefore pointed towards the sun in order to minimize solar gain.
 Black tiles (known as high temperature reusable surface insulation or HRSI) are optimized for maximum emissivity, which means they lose heat faster than white tiles. This property is required in order to maximise heat rejection during re-entry.

There are typically 20,000 HRSI LI-900 tiles on a Space Shuttle, and 725 LRSI LI-900 tiles.

Problems

Strength
As a result of optimizing its thermal properties, overall strength was reduced. The tile was therefore not suitable to be used in high-stress areas such as around the landing gear doors and windows. To solve this, a higher strength version of the LI-900 material was produced, with a bulk density of 352.4 kg/m3 (22 lb/ft3), which was called the LI-2200. This tile provided the strength and insulating properties, but with a considerable weight penalty.

See also
 Space Shuttle thermal protection system
 Atmospheric reentry

References

Sources
 NASA facts on the Orbiter Thermal Protection System
 Research and technology report on shuttle materials resistant to MMOD

Space Shuttle program
Thermal protection
Lockheed Corporation
Eurobot. Eurobot is an international robotics contest dedicated to universities and robotics clubs.

History 
Eurobot, whose first edition took place in May 1998 in Paris was created by Nicolas Goldzahl (president of VM Productions) with the help of the association Planet Science, 4 years after the creation of the French cup of Robotics. To achieve this, in early 1997, Nicolas Goldzahl and Rachid Ait Mansour (Planet Science robotics manager) traveled across Europe to convince universities to participate in this new event. They met university leaders and showed them the videos and TV reports of the first editions of the French Robotics Cup, which already had a great success in France. A first tour in 1997 made it possible to recruit universities from Finland, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium. Many other countries joined the competition in the following years. Eurobot takes place in Europe but regularly hosts countries outside Europe (Tunisia, Algeria, Russia, Iran, Kuwait...).

Video of the beginning of the competition: VIDEO The first years of EUROBOT 1994-2000

In May 2018, 1500 students from 15 countries were involved in this science and technology contest, through its national qualifications and the international final that took place in La-Roche-Sur-Yon () > Video

From 2008 to 2011, Eurobot was organized in parallel with the International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics. Four books of proceedings were published, during those years, under the editorial supervision of David Obdrzálek, Achim Gottscheber, Stefan Enderle and Colin T. Schmidt.

Summary of locations, results and themes

See also
 Robot

References

External links
 
 SwissEurobot : Swiss Robotic Cup 
 French Robotic Cup 

 
Recurring events established in 1998
Chafery. A chafery is a variety of hearth used in ironmaking for reheating a bloom of iron, in the course of its being drawn out into a bar of wrought iron.   

The equivalent term for a bloomery was string hearth, except in 17th century Cumbria, where the terminology was that of the finery forge.  

A finery forge for the Walloon process would typically have one chafery to work two fineries (but sometimes one or three fineries).  

Chaferies were also used in the potting and stamping forges of the Industrial Revolution.  

Metallurgy

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Induced gas flotation. Induced gas flotation (IGF) is a water treatment process that clarifies wastewater (or other waters) by removing suspended matter such as oil or solids. The removal is achieved by injecting gas bubbles into the water or wastewater in a flotation tank or basin. The small bubbles adhere to the suspended matter causing the suspended matter to float to the surface of the water where it may then be removed by a skimming device.

Induced gas flotation is very widely used in treating the industrial wastewater effluents from oil refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants, natural gas processing plants and similar industrial facilities. A very similar process known as dissolved air flotation is also used for waste water treatment. Froth flotation is commonly used in the processing of mineral ores.

IGF units in the oil industry do not use air as the flotation medium due to the explosion risk. These IGF units use natural gas or nitrogen to create the bubbles.


Process description
The feed water to the IGF float tank is often (but not always) dosed with a coagulant (such as ferric chloride or aluminum sulfate) to flocculate the suspended matter.

The bubbles may be generated by an impeller, eductors or a sparger. The bubbles adhere to the suspended matter, causing the suspended matter to float to the surface and form a froth layer which is then removed by a skimmer. The froth-free water exits the float tank as the clarified effluent from the IGF unit.

Some IGF unit designs utilize parallel plate packing material to provide more separation surface and therefore to enhance the separation efficiency of the unit.

See also
 API oil-water separator
 Flotation process
 Industrial water treatment
 Industrial wastewater treatment
 List of waste-water treatment technologies

References

 

Environmental engineering
Oil refining
Flotation processes
Water treatment
Waste treatment technology
ALCO 300. The ALCO 300 was an early diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York between 1931 and 1938.

Following purchase of the engine manufacturer McIntosh & Seymour in 1929, ALCO built a  box cab locomotive. This was the #300, an ALCO demonstrator. The engine used was the Model 330 and GE electrical transmission was used. Another demonstrator #300 was built as an end cab switcher in July 1931 also using General Electric electrical equipment. This unit was sold to the Lehigh Valley Railroad as its #102. A subsequent  end cab switcher was sold to the Lehigh Valley as its #103 in December 1931. A McIntosh and Seymour Box cab Lehigh Valley #125 was rebuilt with an ALCO 330 engine in 1931 and then renumbered Lehigh Valley #101.

Three more end cab  switchers were built in 1932 for stock demonstrators, but they were not sold until 1935. An additional two  end cab switchers were built in 1935. All these stock units and the two new end cab switchers were sold to the US Navy in 1935. The final two  end cab switchers were built in 1938 for the United Fruit Company's narrow gauge railroad in Panama.

None have been preserved.

See also 
 List of ALCO diesel locomotives
 List of MLW diesel locomotives

References
 
 Steinbrenner, Richard (2003) The American Locomotive Company A Centennial Remembrance. Chapter VI subchapter "ALCO's First Production Diesels".

External links

ALCO locomotives
B-B locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1931
Standard gauge locomotives of Panama
Scrapped locomotives
Shunting locomotives
Lublin R-XI. The Lublin R-XI was the Polish passenger plane for 4 passengers, designed in 1930 in the Plage i Laśkiewicz factory in Lublin, that remained a prototype.

Development
The aircraft was developed for a contest for a successor of Junkers F-13 as a light passenger and mail plane in LOT Polish Airlines, announced by the Ministry of Communication. The design was partly modeled on a construction of Fokker F.VII, produced under license by Plage i Laśkiewicz, especially in a wing design. The main designer was Jerzy Rudlicki. The prototype was first flown on 8 February 1930 in Lublin (registration: SP-ACC). From June 1930 it was evaluated by the LOT Airlines. The prototype was damaged during take-off in July 1931, and was not repaired.

The aircraft was not successful, because its weight appeared 250 kg more, than designed, it also had worse speed, range and ceiling, than expected (its competitor, the PWS-21, was not successful either). Its improved development became Lublin R-XVI, built in a small series, although not as a passenger plane.

Description
The R-XI was a mixed construction cantilever high-wing monoplane, single-engine, conventional in layout. It had a steel-framed, canvas-covered fuselage (engine part covered with duralumin) and a single-piece, plywood-covered, three-spar elliptical wing of wooden construction. The empennage was of steel construction, canvas covered. It had a conventional fixed landing gear, with a rear skid, base 2.7 m. The main gear was joined with a wing by struts. The closed cabin had a capacity of six: a pilot, a mechanic and 4 passengers. Two crewmen had twin controls and individual doors on either side, the fifth passenger could be carried instead of the mechanic. The passenger cabin had height 1.5 m and width 1.3 m and two triangular doors on the left side. Behind it there was a place for a baggage.

Single engine in front: 9-cylinder air-cooled Polish Skoda Works Wright Whirlwind J-5 radial engine delivering 240 hp (179 kW) take-off power and 220 hp (164 kW) nominal power, with a NACA cowling, driving a two-blade metal propeller of a fixed pitch. A 300-litre fuel tank was fitted in wing and 150-litre under the cab (normal capacity was 200 L). The cruise fuel consumption was 40–50 L/h.

Specifications

See also

References

External links

Photos and drawings at Ugolok Neba page

1930s Polish airliners
R11
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Factory Physics. Factory Physics is a book written by Wallace Hopp and Mark Spearman, which introduces a science of operations for manufacturing management.  According to the book's preface, Factory Physics is "a systematic description of the underlying behavior of manufacturing systems.  Understanding it enables managers and engineers to work with the natural tendencies of manufacturing systems to:

 Identify opportunities for improving existing systems
 Design effective new systems
 Make the trade-offs needed to coordinate policies from disparate areas

The book is used both in industry and in academia for reference and teaching on operations management. It describes a new approach to manufacturing management based on the laws of Factory Physics science. The fundamental Factory Physics framework states that the essential components of all value streams or production processes or service processes are demand and transformation which are described by structural elements of flows and stocks. There are very specific practical, mathematical relationships that enable one to describe and control the performance of flows and stocks. The book states that, in the presence of variability, there are only three buffers available to synchronize demand and transformation with lowest cost and highest service level:

Capacity
Inventory
Response time

The book states that its approach enables practical, predictive understanding of flows and stocks and how to best use the three levers to optimally synchronize demand and transformation.

This work won the 1996 Institute of Industrial Engineers IIE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award.

Editions
Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management, first edition, 1996. 668pp. 
Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management, second edition, 2000. 698pp. 
Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management, third edition, 2008. 720pp.

See also
 CONWIP
 Supply chain management

References

1996 non-fiction books
Business books
Operations research
Collaborative non-fiction books