omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Staber Industries. Staber Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of residential laundry home appliances, with headquarters in Groveport, Ohio. The products they currently manufacture include a washing machine, a clothes dryer, and a clothes drying cabinet.

History
Staber Industries, Inc. was founded in 1976 by James E. Staber.  For the first two decades, the company's specialization was the remanufacturing of washing machine transmissions for such companies as Whirlpool, G.E., Maytag, and Speed Queen.

Appliance manufacturing
In the 1990s, Staber Industries began to shift its resources to the development of its own line of residential laundry appliances. The current product line includes a high efficiency top-loading horizontal-axis washing machine, a clothes dryer, and a clothes drying cabinet.

Washing machine
The Staber washing machine is the only top loaded horizontal-axis washing machine to be manufactured in the United States. The horizontal-axis configuration uses approximately 60% less water for a wash cycle than a traditional top loading washer. Because of this, the Staber washing machine has earned an Energy Star rating for high efficiency.

The wash tub is hexagonal and constructed of laser-perforated stainless steel, spinning above a half-octagonal stainless steel base. Because the distance between the spinning tub and the base is in constant flux, water is force-injected through the perforations into the clothes. Staber Industries received a patent for this wash tub configuration in 1994.

Distribution
Staber appliances are available domestically and internationally to consumers by way of their online store, and also through a network of hundreds of authorized dealers throughout the United States and Canada.

Notes

References
 Williams, Brian (September 4, 1999) "New Plant Cleans Away Rusty Image:  Staber Industries’ Specialty Washers Add Modern Technology to a Staple Appliance". The Columbus Dispatch, p. 1G
 Clark, M.J. (September 23, 2005) "Family-Owned Firm is Ohio's Best Kept Secret in Washing Machines". Business First of Columbus 
 MacLaren, Mary Ann (January/February 2005) "Top Loading Front Loader Looking for Niche Market". Great Lakes & Ohio Valley Retail News, p. 1.  
 Brehm, Jeff (November 1994) "Washing Clothes: A Whole New Angle". Country Living, p. 8
 Hodl, James J. (July 2005) "When the Old Washer is Dead, Sell the Replacement". Marcone World, p. 11

External links

 Official website
 Produkttests von Waschmaschinen (unter anderem dieses Herstellers) (in German)

Companies based in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area
Home appliance manufacturers of the United States
Franklin County, Ohio
RETAS. RETAS (Revolutionary Engineering Total Animation System) is a 2D animation software bundle developed and sold by Celsys that is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It handles the entire animation production from digitally drawing or tracing to exporting in Flash and QuickTime, and is considered to be a leader in Japan's anime industry including Toei Animation. RETAS was later succeeded by Clip Studio Paint.

RETAS! PRO HD Series 
RETAS! PRO HD is the most current software being offered to the English-speaking community through Celsys. It is sold as four different pieces of software in which each handles a specific task in the animation process.

Stylos HD
Stylos is a vector and raster graphics editor used to draw the key frames and inbetweens of a scene. Designed to work with a graphics tablet as an alternative to paper, it is capable of multi-layer editing, onion skinning, and advanced vector editing.

TraceMan HD
TraceMan is scanning software which supports vector tracing and 48-bit image scanning. Created to convert hand drawings into line art, it is an alternative to the paperless Stylos editor.

PaintMan HD
PaintMan is a coloring utility designed to color images created in either Stylos or TraceMan.

CoreRETAS HD
CoreRETAS is a rendering utility which allows one to set up a scene and render it as an animation, following a process similar to the traditional shooting of cels and backgrounds with an animation camera. The software features various functionality such as panning, multiplane effects, moving images, and exporting. Some of the most commonly supported formats are Flash, QuickTime, and AVI (Windows Only).

RETAS Studio
On December 18, 2008, Celsys introduced a new version of RETAS entitled RETAS STUDIO to the Japanese-speaking audience. RETAS STUDIO is Celsys's latest and competitively-priced animation software that incorporates the entire RETAS suite (Stylos, TraceMan, PaintMan, and CoreRETAS) into a single package.

References

External links
 
Retas Homepage
Celsys Homepage 

2D animation software
Animation software
ATM controller. An ATM controller (ATMC) is a system used in financial institutions to route financial transactions between ATMs, core banking systems and other banks. An ATMC is sometimes referred to as an "EFTPOS Switch". An ATM controller is key infrastructure in an interbank network.

Operation 
A message may enter an ATMC from an ATM, another ATMC or a third party. When receiving a message, the ATMC will examine the message, validate the PIN block if present, and then route the message according to the leading digits of the account number referenced.

This routing may be to a core banking system to check the available balances and to authorise the transaction, or to another bank's ATMC. For example, if a customer of Bank A used their card at an ATM belonging to Bank B, the message would be forwarded to Bank B's ATMC. The ATMC would examine the message, and based upon the account number determine that the appropriate ATMC to contact would be Bank A. It would then forward the message to Bank A's ATMC for authorisation.

An important aspect of an ATMC system is its ability to perform stand-in processing when core banking systems are unavailable. This allows a bank's ATMs to operate (usually with reduced limits) during periods of outage or maintenance on core banking systems. ATMCs make use of a SAF (store and forward) queue to ensure transactions are not lost.

An ATMC will usually have at least one attached hardware security module to manage the keys relating to PIN validation and encryption of connections.

External links 
 Australian Payment Systems
  Software used to control ATM and EFTPoS networks at the Internet Archive

Automated teller machines
Banking technology
Construction plant fitting in the Republic of Ireland. The trade of construction plant fitting in the Republic of Ireland is essentially the training of mechanics who specialise in working on the type of machinery found on building sites. Bull-dozers, dump trucks, four-wheel drive vehicles, cement mixers and water pumps are all types of equipment worked on by construction plant fitters (cp fitters).

Since 1979, and up until its closure in December 2010, the Cabra Training Centre was the only place in Ireland to offer Phase 2 apprenticeship training. Since the Cabra closure, the section has moved to a rented workshops about 300 metres away from the FAS Baldoyle Training Centre. This was to have been a temporary move while the main training centre was modified to accommodate the course. The promised work never happened, and the CP Fitters' section have been running courses from this temporary premises since May 2011. Generally speaking, four courses per year are run-with 12 apprentices on each course. In recent years, as many as 10 courses (120 apprentices) and as few as 2 courses (24 apprentices) have been run in Cabra.

Apprenticeship Training in the trade was regulated by FÁS, Ireland's Industrial Training Authority]]. 
The name of that organisation was changed to SOLAS. At present, apprenticeship training is standards based, and broken into 7 phases, with the odd-numbered phases being conducted on-the-job, and the even numbered phases being conducted in a temporary industrial unit rented by the Dublin and Dun Laoighre Education and Training Board (DDLETB) in Baldoyle (Phase 2), or the Institute of Technology in Cork (Phases 4 and 6). Since February 2016, it has become apparent that the Institute of Technology in Cork are now also offering Phase 2 training.

Phase 2 training
Up until November 2010, the FÁS Training Centre in Cabra was the only training centre in the country to offer apprenticeship training at Phase 2 level. The Cabra Training Centre was closed down permanently on Christmas Eve, 2010, and no longer functions as a training centre. Since May 2011, Phase 2 apprenticeship training is being delivered in a satellite industrial unit close to the Baldoyle Training Centre. At present, two courses are running there concurrently. Since February 2016, Phase 2 training is also being offered in the Institute of Technology, Cork. 
During the 20 weeks allotted to Phase 2, apprentices will study 6 different modules:

External links
Log in as a guest to see more about the CP Fitters' Section, and the training facilities
Keep up with the latest site news about CP Fitters

Construction in the Republic of Ireland
Antimony tetroxide. Antimony tetroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula Sb2O4.  This material, which exists as the mineral cervantite, is white but reversibly yellows upon heating.  The material, with empirical formula SbO2, is called antimony tetroxide to signify the presence of two kinds of Sb centers.

Formation and structure
The material forms when Sb2O3 is heated in air:
Sb2O3  +  0.5 O2  →  Sb2O4  ΔH = −187 kJ/mol
At 800 °C, antimony(V) oxide loses oxygen to give the same material:
Sb2O5  →  Sb2O4  +  0.5 O2  ΔH = −64 kJ/mol

The material is mixed valence, containing both Sb(V) and Sb(III) centers.  Two polymorphs are known, one orthorhombic (shown in the infobox) and one monoclinic.  Both forms feature octahedral Sb(V) centers arranged in sheets with distorted Sb(III) centers bound to four oxides.

References

Antimony compounds
Oxides
Mixed valence compounds
China National Heavy Duty Truck Group. China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd., CNHTC or Sinotruk Group is a Chinese state-owned truck manufacturer headquartered in Jinan, Shandong province. It is currently the third largest truck manufacturer in Mainland China. It is known for developing and manufacturing China's first heavy duty truck - "Huanghe" (黄河, lit. Yellow River) JN150.

History 

CNHTC was founded in 1935 by Kuomintang Government of the Republic of China era on the basis of Jinan Automobile Works. It started developing heavy-duty trucks in 1956, with its first truck modeled after Škoda 706 RT. In 1984, Jinan Automobile Works began to produce Steyr 91 with technology imported from Steyr-Daimler-Puch. Since the reform and restructure in 2001, the company has got rid of the operating losses for previous years.

Most of the group assets was now listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in 2007, as a Hong Kong-incorporated company, Sinotruk (Hong Kong). Another subsidiary (subsidiary of Sinotruk (Hong Kong)), Sinotruk Jinan Truck (SZSE:000951), was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

After the collaboration with Steyr, Sinotruk had done collaboration with Volvo Trucks (which terminated around 2009), sold under the Howo nameplate, and later, collaboration with MAN AG, sold under Sitrak nameplate.

Some Howo model like Howo 7 series uses Volvo FL10 derived cabin, others like Howo A7 uses Volvo FH derived cabin. Sitrak models on the other hand, uses MAN TGA derived technology.

Sinotruk sells trucks in various South American countries. They came to Brazil in response to a group of businessmen with experience in the transportation industry. Sinotruk has sold 2,000 vehicles thus far. Sinotruk began building their first plant outside China in 2013 with an initial investment of more than 300 million dollars. Its location will be in Lages, Brazil.

Sinotruk also produces trucks in Pakistan through a joint venture with Dysin Automobiles.

They are also active in the Philippines as well since 2011 through dealership, selling light and heavy trucks.

In October 2019, Shandong Heavy Industry became the controlling shareholder of "China National Heavy Duty Truck Group", acquiring a 45% stake.

Current Models
Howo S6 commercial - mid-size pickup truck
Howo S7 city - mid-size pickup truck
Howo S9 offroad - mid-size pickup truck
Howo EV - mid-size pickup truck

References

External links

Truck manufacturers of China
Government-owned companies of China
Companies based in Jinan
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1935
Chinese brands
Chinese companies established in 1935
1935 in Jinan
Asmi. ASMI may refer to:
ASM International, a world leading Dutch company in the semiconductor industry
ASM International (society), American Society for Metals
American Sports Medicine Institute
Association for the Study of Modern Italy
Advanced System Management Interface, found in some IBM POWER microprocessors based IBM servers
Asmi Shrestha (born 1993), Nepalese model
ASMI, 9mm Machine Pistol developed by India.
Fritz Fischer (physicist). Fritz Fischer (9 February 1898 – 28 December 1947) was a technical physicist, engineer and inventor. He was married to Maud Schätti.

Biography
Fritz Fischer was born on 9 February 1898 in Oberdiessbach. He studied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich from 1917 till 1921 and graduated as Dr. sc. tech in 1924. Working at the Telephonwerke Albisrieden he improved the transmission quality of speech, whereupon he was called to the central laboratories of the mother company Siemens & Halske in Berlin. There he built the first remotely controlled ships and airplanes and investigated the physical properties of colour film. Over 70 patent applications resulted from his work at Siemens. He was lecturer at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin).

1932 he received a call to the ETH Zurich, where he became professor and founded the Institute of Technical Physics. He developed and patented the Eidophor technique of displaying television pictures the size of cinema screens. Edgar Gretener, his chief assistant at the ETH, was project leader for the development of Eidophor. This project was transferred to a company founded by Gretener, which later became Gretag AG. After years of development, Eidophor achieved commercial success until Liquid Crystal Display LCD (another invention with important Swiss contributors) and Digital Light Processing DLP video projectors became available.

Other early assistants at his Institute were Hugo Thiemann (founding member of the Club of Rome), Gustav Guanella, Werner Lindecker and Erna Hamburger, who became famous on their own.

Fritz Fischer was one of the important technical scientists of his day. He was co-founder together with Max Lattmann, his first Ph.D. graduate, of Contraves AG, a Swiss defence and aerospace company, now part of Rheinmetall Air Defence AG, Zürich.

Fischer died on 28 December 1947 in Zürich, at the age of 49.

References

1898 births
1947 deaths
People from the canton of Bern
20th-century Swiss physicists
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich alumni
20th-century Swiss inventors
20th-century Swiss engineers
Stress shielding. Stress shielding is the reduction in bone density (osteopenia) as a result of removal of typical stress from the bone by an implant (for instance, the femoral component of a hip prosthesis). This is because by Wolff's law, bone in a healthy person or animal remodels in response to the loads it is placed under. It is possible to mention the elastic modulus of magnesium (41–45 GPa) compared to titanium (110–127 GPa), stainless steel (189–205 GPa), iron  (211.4 GPa), or zinc (78–121 GPa), which makes it further analogous to the natural bone of the body (3–20 GPa) and prevents stress shielding phenomena. Porous implantation is one typical alleviation method.

References

Orthopedic surgical procedures
Skeletal disorders
Schematic-driven layout. Schematic driven layout is the concept in integrated circuit layout or PCB layout where the EDA software links the schematic and layout databases. It was one of the first big steps forward in layout software from the days when editing tools were simply handling drawn polygons.

Features 
Schematic-driven layout allows for several features that make the layout designer's job easier and faster. One of the most important is that changes to the circuit schematic are easily translated to the layout. Another is that the connections between components in the schematic are graphically displayed in the layout ensuring work is correct by construction.

References 
 Clein, Dan. (2000). CMOS IC Layout. Newnes. 

Electrical diagrams
Electronic design

de:Layoutentwurf (Elektrotechnik)
HOSTAC. Helicopter Operations from Ships other Than Aircraft Carriers (HOSTAC) is a military international standardization program made up of 4 regional HOSTAC Conferences/Working Groups. These regional groups include the NATO HOSTAC, SIANC HOSTAC, Pacific HOSTAC and Middle East HOSTAC. The primary focus of this international forum is to generate the appropriate standards  and maintain up-to-date national information in order to successfully and safely conduct cross-deck helicopter operations between over 50 navies and coast guards.

The first combined "Global" HOSTAC working group was held in April 2008 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and included the participation of 34 nations. Since then "Global" HOSTAC working groups have been held at Pearl Harbor, USA (2011); Paris, France (2014) and London, UK (2017). The 2020 "Global" HOSTAC was cancelled due to Covid-19.

The HOSTAC publications (MPP-02 Volume I, MPP-02.1, MPP-02.2, MPP-02.3, and MPP-02.1.1) are part of the Multinational Publications Electronic Library MPEL. National data is kept updated and current through updated versions.

In 2013, The NATO Multinational Through-deck and Aircraft Carrier Cross-deck Operations (MTACCOPS) Working Group joined the HOSTAC program to cover rotary wing and fixed wing cross operations involving large deck aviation ships.

References

NATO Standardization Agreements
Harley Ellis Devereaux. HED (formerly Harley Ellis Devereaux) is an architecture and engineering firm based in Royal Oak, Michigan with offices in Royal Oak, Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, Sacramento, California, San Diego, Denver, Colorado, Dallas, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.  The firm was founded in 1908 by architects Alvin E. Harley and Norman S. Atcheson.

Activities
HED is one of the 200 largest design firms in the United States, employing more than 400 professionals including architects; mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers; landscape architects; interior designers; graphics, signage, and equipment designers; and laboratory design specialists. The firm specializes in multiple practices including healthcare, workplaces, mixed-use and residential, Pre K-12 schools, higher education, civic and cultural, mission critical, science and advanced manufacturing, community, and federal and transportation.

HED buildings 

 Horace Rackham Education Memorial Building, Detroit, 1941.
 City-County Building, Detroit, 1954 
 U.S. State Department Building, Washington, D.C., 1960
 211 West Fort Street, Detroit, 1963
 Union Bank Office Tower, San Jose, California, 1976
Wharton Center for Performing Arts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1982
 University of Michigan Chemical Sciences Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988
 General Motors Truck Product Center, Pontiac, Michigan, 1996
 VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998
 Wentworth Commons, Chicago, 2005
 Millennium Park Program Management, Chicago, 2006
 Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center, Los Angeles, 2007
 USC Village, Los Angeles, 2017
 The Archdiocese of Detroit buildings, 1970.

Office locations 
 Royal Oak, Michigan
 Chicago, Illinois
 Los Angeles, California
 Sacramento, California
 San Diego, California
 San Francisco, California
 Dallas, Texas
 Denver, Colorado
 Boston, Massachusetts

History of firm names 

Since its inception in 1908, the firm has existed as:
 Harley and Atcheson (1908–1912)
 Alvin E. Harley, Architect (1912–1932)
 Harley and Ellington (1933–1942)
 Harley, Ellington and Day (1943–1960)
 Harley, Ellington, Cowin and Stirton (1961–1968)
 Harley Ellington Associates (1969–1972)
 Harley Ellington Pierce Yee Associates (1973–1994)
 Harley Ellington Design (1995–1999)
 HarleyEllis (2000–2005)
 HED (Harley Ellis Devereaux) (2006–Present)

Awards 

 Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For, 2005 - 2021 
 ZweigWhite, Hot Firm List, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
 Top Ten Green Projects, AIA COTE, West Branch of the Berkeley Public Library, 2016
 Top Ten Green Projects, AIA COTE, Lake View Terrace Library, 2004
 Metropolitan Detroit 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For, 2001 - 2021  
 AIA Michigan Firm of the Year, 2000

References

External links 
HED's website
Duggan, Daniel. (2008, February 18). "", Crain's Detroit Business, February 18, 2008.

Architecture firms based in Michigan
Engineering companies of the United States
Companies based in Southfield, Michigan
Design companies established in 1908
1908 establishments in Michigan
Architects from Detroit
Piezo switch. A piezo switch is an electrical switch based on the piezoelectric effect.

The charge generated by the piezoelectric element in the switch is typically used to turn on an integrated semiconductor device such as a field effect transistor (FET), causing the switch assembly's output to be active, or "on". When the FET is on, current can flow through it as with a conventional metal contact-based switch. After the voltage pulse is dissipated in the gate resistor, the FET turns back "off", its normal high impedance state. The piezoelectric effect is the generation of electric charge when certain materials are under stress. In the case of piezo switches, the force could be compressive pressure that causes the (typically disc-shaped) piezo element to bend very slightly like a drumhead.

Thus piezo switches produce a single, brief "on" pulse. This pulse can vary with the amount of pressure which is applied, since higher pressures generate higher voltages which take longer to dissipate. A capacitor may be used to store the charge to lengthen the time constant of the gate circuit and therefore the width of the pulse. With additional circuitry this pulse can be extended further or used to change the state of an output from steady "Off" to steady "On" by toggling a flip-flop.
Piezo switches have some interesting advantages over their conventional mechanical counterparts. One is that there are no (significantly) moving parts, just the small deformation on the front plate and the piezo element (typically a few micrometers). This means the lifetime of such a switch can be ensured to be tens of millions of operations, since there is no wear involved. Another advantage is that they may easily be completely sealed from the environment and thus made weatherproof. They are often constructed with stainless steel housings such that they are resistant to damage by vandals or heavy use.

See also
 Piezoresistive
 Piezo ignition
 Piezoelectric sensor
 Touch switch types: capacitance, resistance, and piezo

References

Switches
Aluminized cloth. Aluminized cloth is a material designed to reflect thermal radiation. Applications include fire proximity suits, emergency space blankets, protection in molten metal handling, and insulation for building and containers.

Aluminium powder was added to aircraft dope which was then used to give a shiny finish to fabric-covered aircraft, so protecting them from sunlight.  The Hindenburg airship was treated in this way and it has been suggested that the aluminium powder made the skin more combustible and so caused or contributed to the Hindenburg disaster.  This theory is controversial and experiments have been conducted to test the hypothesis.

See also

 Reflectivity
 Thermal insulation
 MythBusters (2007 season)#Hindenburg Mystery

References

Safety clothing