Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Overview of this Blog

Recently downloaded my blog and imported into Scrivener, the statistics indicate there is over 200,000 words: therefore a lot of reading and writing to do to revise and improve.

Currently broken the posts down into the following broad areas:
  1. Technology and Society
    • Industry
    • Education
    • Professions
    • Politics
  2. Building and Construction
  3. Design and Engineering [Structures]
    • Regulations
    • Cold-Formed Steel Sheds
  4. Science
  5. Software [Structural]
    • Materials
    • Design Actions
    • Design Action-Effects
    • Other
  6. Computers
  7. Business and Management
  8. Journal
    • Journal: 2004
    • Journal :2008
    • Journal: 2010
    • Journal: 2011
    • Journal: 2012
    • Journal: 2013
    • Journal: 2014
    • Journal: 2015
  9. Miscellaneous

Most of this will now be rewritten and placed on the other blogs I have set up.


Related Posts

Revisions:
[30/09/2015] : Original

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

My Presence Around The Web

My presence around the web:

Blogs
NewsPapers (paper.li)
Groups created on LinkedIN
  1. Pre-Engineered Manufactured Building Systems Group
  2. Manufactured Structural Products and Technical Resources (deleted)
  3. Technical Praxis: The Art of getting things done. (deleted)
Other
  1. Twitter (@Metamorph96)
  2. Google+
  3. SEAint (Participation on email list server published : archives , blogger, google groups)
  4. ExcelCalcs
  5. Scribd
  6. FaceBook
  7. Klout
  8. Flickr
  9. Picasa
  10. YouTube
  11. Vizify
  12. DeviantArt
  13. Gravatar
  14. PearlTrees
  15. pinterest
  16. bitly
Business:
  1. MiScion Pty Ltd 
  2. (I can be contacted here if looking for software development, or structural design services. Use the contact form on the website, or email directly to sch at miscion.com.au.)

Related Posts

Revisions:
[16/09/2015] : Original
[30/09/2015] : Added business website

Monday, September 14, 2015

Suppliers and technical information,including software

{Previously posted in LinkedIn group I created: Pre-Engineered manufactured structural Building products, and have since shut down. It having a membership of 30 people. Most of these people also in my group Pre-Engineered Manufactured Building Systems Group which has over 2000 members.}

Ramset potentially represents a good example of technical information which manufacturers and suppliers should make available.

First off, the technical information is available to designers, in the form of printed manuals, with possibly an option for software. These design aids are available to people who typically do not ever buy the manufacturers product, but these people do otherwise specify and recommend the use of the product.

Secondly software is available for download free of charge with or without a registration requirement.

Thirdly can speak to technical people for support and advise. Not just to salespeople who for many companies typically know zip about their product.

Smaller manufacturers of structural products tend to focus on glossy brochures and no technical specifications nor design manuals. Further software is limited and restricted to agents of the company, and only used by salespeople whilst talking to the customer. They have poor information for customers and poor information for certifying authorities.

This latter approach tends to result in a relatively cumbersome and hassled approach to product supply for all persons involved.

It largely stems from paying no attention to the design and development of the structural product and hoping that the majority of the time they can get city council approval with the barest minimum of information.

Australia's timber framing code AS1684 should be used as an example for documenting a building system, and I suggest Ramset information resources should be used as an example for documenting structural components.

And given these examples do have deficiencies, the aim should be to surpass not equal them.

There are far too many suppliers who have inadequate information resources to assist customers to make informed decisions before buying.


For that matter consultants also need to be clearer about what they do. Of course with everyone under pressure fighting "bushfires" as it were, being able to tackle these issues suffers

Refining some definitions and changed the name of the group

{Previously posted in LinkedIn group I created: Pre-Engineered manufactured structural Building products, and have since shut down. It having a membership of 30 people. Most of these people also in my group Pre-Engineered Manufactured Building Systems Group which has over 2000 members.}


Pre-Engineered manufactured structural Building products, is the term I have adopted to refer to objects which are designed once and then made and installed many times. But this raises issues of suitability. The Australian standard for scaffolding identifies 2 issues (from memory) as follows:

  1. Systems
  2. Installation
I am adding components to this to bring to three situations:

  1. Components
  2. systems
  3. Installations
Components may be assembles or single part objects. A bolt is a component but typically used as part of an assembly comprising: bolts, nut and washers long with the items being clamped. Similarly a balustrade comprises of posts and rails, these are components, the balustrade is a system, and a specific application on a specific building project is an installation.

Whilst components and systems may be suitable in their own right they may not be suitable for a specific application. A balustrade for example may be suitable for a residential application but unsuitable for a public installation subject to crowd loading. Similarly a kit for a sail-shade may be suitable for one wind environment and unsuitable for another. Now several such sail-shade kits used to construct a larger area sail-shade represents a building system.

In-order to use a sail-shade kit as a component of a larger structure, need adequate information about the structure to make assessment of its suitability.

The emphasis of this group is the design, or rather selection of structural building products that are supposed to be complete in their own right, no custom variations are permitted, but the products may be used as components in larger assemblies. (eg. structural sections are components, as are bolts)

What information and quality assurance is missing from the existing industry and what improvements are required?

A fixed size carport or garden shed is here considered a component, on condition that custom variations do not impose any structural changes. If want to install doors wider than the spacing of the frames, and have to remove columns to achieve, then no longer a finished product, it is now considered a building system and the specific building needs to be designed.

The garden shed as selection issues and installation issues to be resolved. Likewise the carport. Further more a carport attached to an existing building introduces requirements for assessing and strengthening of the existing structure. Which may be complicated by lack of information about the otherwise pre-engineered or proprietary building system: timber framing (AS1684) and cold-formed steel framing. The carport kit a component but the existing house a building system.

The issue for me is that the existence of these products doesn't remove the need for design or engineering assessment. Educated in mechanical and manufacturing I find the lack of quality in both design and manufacture in this sector of the building industry appalling. Production supposed to be moved off-site into a factory to improve quality not reduce it.

So more education and information required on manufactured buildings, and developing the industry that supplies.

-o0o-

A few weeks back was going to collapse back to one group to simplify where to put things, but discovered actually acquired some members, so change the name slightly instead. But not really any help to my thoughts. My perception been slightly distorted by concepts of PEMB/PMBS, and also the scaffolding code referring to systems and installations.

A product, is the end result of a production process, and usable in its own right. Thus a brick is a product, as is a structural steel section, and SIP's, and likewise a water tank and a garden shed.

The public typically doesn't want to waste time on design and engineering, and wants development approval and building permits to be issued as quickly as possible. They therefore go to manufacturers of sheds. But then start to introduce variations, imposing a need for custom design and engineering.

So have an industry that emerges based on selling a product, but otherwise is really selling a building system. However, given that I have a generic sense of product and process, the building system is also a product.

When I originally created the two groups, the idea was one be focused on cold-formed steel sheds and similar buildings, and this group here be for everything else. But there are too many generic issues across all the products and systems, that I don't want to repeat topics.

A SIP is a product in its own right, it may be used to construct a larger building assembly, which is also a product in its own right, or it may be included as a component in a building system.

The issue for this group is that the SIP is useless, and cannot become a part of larger assembly or building system, unless it has a proper technical specification. A stock standard building built from SIP's is also useless unless it has a proper technical specification. The technical specification is required in order to assess the suitability of the SIP for installation in some larger assembly. For the building a technical specification is required to assess the site specific and environmental parameters, along with actual building purpose and select an appropriate building fit-for-function.

So decided to return to original focus of structural products that are manufactured, also not overly concerned whether classed as building: since also relates to water tanks, scaffolding, industrial racking, bridges and multitude of other structures.

The issue is expect to buy off-the-shelf and put to use with no formal design input, no custom features are permitted which influence structural performance.

Apologies for any inconvenience, but this should be the last change for the name of this group.

Rationalising Some Social Networking

Recently deleted the following Linkedin Groups:
  1. Repetitive Manufactured Structural Products

  2. Previous names:
    • Pre-Engineered Manufactured Structural Products 

  3. Technical Praxis: The Art of getting things done

  4. Previous names:
    • Technical Praxis South Australia
    • Technical Praxis Bridge to The People
    • Technical Praxis: Technology, Evidence for Suitability of Purpose
Some of the posts I placed on these groups I will now post on my other blog: Metamorphs: Technical Praxis.

Whilst will otherwise put more focus on the remaining Linkedin group:

Also proposed to rename this group by removing the prefix, so that just called: engineered manufactured building systems. Whether I will keep this group, I'm not certain about at the moment, unlike the other two groups, it has developed a large membership, over 2500 members at present, whilst the other groups only had 30 and 1 member. However, my primary interest is informing buyers of such products and improving the information resources available to them from suppliers. So objective is to be able cover technical issues in a manner that the public will understand, rather than engineers. Though I do have an issue with the engineering supplied to manufacturers by consulting civil engineers: first their assessments are incomplete and not adequate for structures placed into the built environment at the rate of some 1000 units per year. Secondly the information resources they provide are not adequate to inform the suppliers and buyers. Unfortunately the consultants are partly handicapped by what the suppliers request and are willing to pay for.

I do not believe that professional associations or industry associations can solve the problems, as these organisations typically have agendas beyond the welfare of the community: such as legal reform so that they can grab monopolies. Monopolies are dangerous, they do not result in openness and sharing of knowledge, and thus a vast increase in the communities understanding. Rather such organisations create closed shops, and prevent sharing and in the long term result in loss of knowledge to the community: loss of knowledge both inside and outside the organisation. They seek monopoly because of desire to exercise power and authority over others, and use arguments about asymmetry of knowledge between suppliers and buyers, the contention is that through legislated monopoly for the profession they can protect the buyers. Its nonsense, licensing and registration schemes do not work when it comes to protecting the community. First the public need to be able to readily check the validity of license. But even if the license is valid, it does not mean the licensed individual or business is actually capable of performing the task required. Buyers need a more reliable system.

Consultants emerged to help protect buyers from builders, who whilst skilled in construction, may not be skilled in design and thus what they build may not be fit for purpose. Unfortunately there is no guarantee that the consultant is competent at design or as adequate knowledge of the established technologies. The controlling factor in all cases is knowledge and part of that knowledge is proper procedure and suitable bench marks.

Any case the point is that a blog or public forum may be far better for my needs than a Linkedin group. The problem with Linkedin is that even though the group can be publicly visible on the internet, the groups typically do not attract the public: that is the groups are better for business to business, rather than business to consumer. However, the suppliers are one of the stakeholders, so will see what I can do to more effectively use a blog and my Linked group, along with the other groups I belong to. Though a lot of the groups take objection to posting own blog posts in the group discussions.

Friday, July 24, 2015

Metamorphs Product Ideas

Various Product Ideas had over the years. So yet another check list for determining what I have actually pursued and otherwise released.


ProjectID Title
M001 Shed Design Charts
M002 Shed Design Manual
M003 PreFabricated Buildings Manual
M004 Kleinlogel Spreadsheets & Applications
M005 Utility Disk
M006 Easy Calculators
M007 Generic Details
M008 Component Design Tables
M009 Soil Heave & Geotechnical
M010 Online Engineering Services
M011 Stock Management
M012 Project Manager
M013 Conveyor Design - Mechanical Handling
M014 Pipe Profiler
M015 Wind Loading Calculators
M016 Beam Analysis & Design
M017 Carport Design: Prescriptive Solutions
M018 Plane Frame Analysis & Design
M019 Drawing Office & Document Manager
M020 Personnel Manager
M021 Program Writer
M022 Metamorph Calculator
M023 Program Converter
M024 File Manager
M025 Cosmos - engineering data management engine
M026 CADD Tools
M027 IE Toolbox
M028 Standard Forms
M029 Architectural Details & Floor Plans
M030 Multiframe Applications
M031 Library Manager
M032 Civil Engineering Scriptwriter for AutoCAD LT
M033 Preprocessor/Postprocessor for Lights
M034 Microstran Preprocessor/Postprocessor
M035 Canopy Design: Software for Custom Design
M036 Excel Application Model
M037 Experimental Frame Design (Shelter)
M038 ColdFormed Steel Design
M039 HotRolled Steel Design
M040 Timber Design
M041 Concrete Design
M042 Masonry Design
M043 Civil Engineering Toolbox
M044 Structural Engineering Toolbox
M045 Mechanical Engineering Toolbox
M046 Enterprise Ideas

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Metamorphs Enterprise Goals 1996

Overly idealistic plans written back in 1996, and never really looked at since. Though thought it might be interesting to check what more practical things in it that I did actually do, especially the software ideas. Or check if someone else had similar ideas and actually pursued them to implementation.


ENTERPRISE

GOALS

29 April, 1996


TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 MISSION STATEMENT. 3
1.1 GOVERNANCE. 3
1.2 INFORMATION/EDUCATION. 3
1.3 CIVILISATION. 3
1.4 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. 3
1.5 INDUSTRY. 3

2 STRATEGIC GOALS(5 to 20 years) 5
2.1 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 5
2.2 INDUSTRY. 5
2.3 INFORMATION/EDUCATION/TRAINING.. 5
2.4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. 5
2.5 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS. 5

3 TACTICAL GOALS (3 to 5 years) 6
3.1 SERVICE ACTIVITIES. 6

4 OPERATIONAL GOALS(1 year) 8
4.1 GENERAL. 8

5 SOFTWARE PRODUCT LIST. 9
5.1 GENERAL. 9
5.2 MANAGEMENT. 9
5.3 ANALYTICAL MODELS. 9
5.4 PROCEDURE LIBRARIES. 9
5.5 INFORMATION/EDUCATION/TRAINING.. 9

6 MATERIAL GOODS. 11
6.1 GENERAL. 11
6.2 COMPUTING.. 11

7 PROPOSALS/ARTICLES/REPORTS. 12
7.1 SECURITY. 12
7.2 ENVIRONMENT. 12
7.3 EDUCATION. 12
7.4 INDUSTRY. 12
7.5 COMMUNITY INFORMATION. 13

A APPENDIX. 14
A.1 GLOSSARY. 14

1 MISSION STATEMENT

To design life support systems for individuals and communities to enable them to survive in any environment. At the extreme this requires that humans remain inside a building enclosure at all times or within a capsule as they travel from one building to another. The systems range in size from a suit, to a vehicle, to a dwelling to an entire city. The environments range from land, sea and air, from hot sandy deserts to cold ice and snow fields, to the bottom of the ocean floor, to the surface of the moon, to free floating space station beyond Pluto. To stretch the legs of humanity, to re-invigorate their pioneering spirit, to enable them to travel the universe and to extend the life of humanity beyond the lifespan of the planet earth. In the first instance however the task is simply to mobilize humanity on earth and provide the world population with the means of surviving with a reasonable amount of comfort.

1.1 GOVERNANCE

To encourage the individual members of humanity to participate and contribute towards specifying and determining their own destiny. That they be involved in organizing the development of the nations, managing the world resources, and the development of their own communities. To discuss, design and produce written material documenting :
  1. A global ideology for democracy.
  2. Specify Land Usage.
    • The locations of all wildlife sanctuaries. (fauna and flora)
    • Specify location of industrialised city states.
  3. The functional design of cities.
  4. The organized provision for population expansion.

1.2 INFORMATION/EDUCATION

  1. Promote an understanding of technology.
  2. Introduce a commercial information study system.
  3. Improve the presentation, availability, speed of access, and ease of application of appropiate information.

1.3 CIVILISATION

  1. To benefit humanity by providing a secure and comfortable artificial environment in which to live. Thus implying provision of adequate access to food, clothing, shelter, and essential services.
  2. To contribute to world development. Making food, clothing and shelter readily available to all persons.
  3. Construct and develop industrialized city states.

1.4 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

  1. To develop new products and services which improve the processes of informing, educating and qualifying persons for a rewarding life.
  2. Produce design concepts, analysis in the form of published books. Thus diminishing dependence on professionals and one off designs.
  3. Publish design manuals and analysis reports.
  4. Pursue research and development inorder to produce innovative product designs which can be licensed or sold to manufacturers.

1.5 INDUSTRY

  1. Promote the use of appropriate and more diversified energy sources, and the efficient use of fuels.
    • Increase application of alternative energy sources.
    • Decrease fuel consumption.
  2. Compact the industrial function of our cities into the smallest space possible.
    • Increase the use of materials handling equipment.
    • Reduce space consumed by transportation networks.
  3. Increase the viability of materials reclamation and recycling. And consequently the application of such
  4. Increase the application of technology for pollution control.
  5. Simplify the complexity of our technologically advanced society.
  6. Increase speed of access to and ease of application of information.

2 STRATEGIC GOALS(5 to 20 years)

2.1 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  1. Constrain Industrial Cities to a 50km radial perimeter. With all important internal and external centres spaced on an hexagonal grid. {cities spaced 100Km c/c}
  2. To collapse industry into the smallest space possible, localising industry and recovering land from the road network for more beneficial purposes.

2.2 INDUSTRY

  1. Construction of Industrialised City States.
  2. Build Industrial Integrated Estates and Buildings.
  3. Build Used Goods HyperMarket.
  4. Convince industry that there are benefits to be obtained from smaller production facilities.
  5. Increase the viability of materials reclamation and recycling, and consequently the application of such technology.
  6. Avoid pollution and environmental destruction by designing products which are easy to maintain, repair and/or alter the function of without the need to recycle the materials.
  7. Develop products and services which can help achieve sustainable lifestyles in the south, most notably with respect to the rural thirdworld.

2.3 INFORMATION/EDUCATION/TRAINING

  1. To sponsor and found an international engineering scouts association.
  2. To sponsor and found an international institute of science engineering and technology.

2.4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  1. Promote the use of, and understanding of analytical modeling, and simulation.
  2. Educating the public about global management concepts
  3. Assisting the fight for human rights and equality.
  4. Promoting the learning of second languages.
  5. Promoting goodwill between the peoples of the world.

2.5 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

  1. Given that 2/3 of the answer lies in putting the question clearly.
  2. Produce pre-printed reports that assist persons from all backgrounds to specify their design requirements clearly.

3 TACTICAL GOALS (3 to 5 years)

3.1 SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Provide the following services:
  1. INNOVATION, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
    • Development of new products.
    • Designing, writing & Documenting computer software
  2. ADMINISTRATION
    • Financial Management & Accounting (excluding Taxation)
    • Records & Information Management, Document Control
  3. DESIGN
    • Presentation/Documentation
  4. Drawings, Calculations, Specifications, Contracts, Tenders.
  5. Office/Factory/General Facilities Layout
  6. Tubular Profiles, Sheet Material Layouts & Developments
  7. Engineering Graphics, Drafting Design
  8. Design for Production : Dimensioning for Tolerancing for length & geometric control.
  9. ANALYSIS
    • GENERAL
      • Determinate structures
      • Bolted & Welded connections
      • Manufacture of new sections
    • STRUCTURAL
      • Analysis of civil structures : buildings, tanks, bridges.
    • CIVIL
      • Water supply, irrigation.
    • MECHANICAL
      • Shafts, connections, springs, clutches, motor, gearbox, coupling selection. stress analysis fatigue and impact loads. Heat transfer. (Tool cutting forces ?)
      • Heating & air conditioning & ventilation
      • Construction robots
      • lifts & elevators
  10. solar hot water & passive/active solar heating
  11. INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT/PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
    • Site location, plant layout, method improvement, resource allocation & scheduling, control systems.
    • Quality Assurance, Total Quality Mangement
    • Systems Analysis (effort reduction, product improvement)
    • Mechanical handling & Automation
  12. COMPUTING
    • Development of tailored software for engineering analysis & design and technical drafting.
    • Systems analysis
  13. Technical advise
  14. Industrial improvement
  15. Pollution control
    • Waste management
  16. Production management
  17. Total materials management (energy alternatives included)
    • Resource Management
    • Information management
  18. Technical computing
  19. Regional planning
  20. Promoting and implementing alternative systems in the areas of :
    • Transportation
    • Building construction
    • Manufacturing machinery and processes
    • Information technology and education
  21. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
  22. Emphasize that technical designs are not merely guidelines for the production of the real thing, but that they are models. Models that can be used for analysis and optimization of the real thing. That the models do not have to be mathematical or computer generated.
    • Promotion of analytic modeling.
    • Set default standards in the presentation of engineering reports, most notably engineering calculations.
    • Produce standard designs for common product series, thus providing standard design-reports at low cost
    • Develop computer software that :
    • Standardises report formats.
    • Provides for rapid and accurate analysis & assessment of designs.
      • Designs a product series.
      • Encourages standardisation of product components and product sizing.
  23. Publish a short technical and idealistic news letter which is distributed to select organisations. The purpose being to indirectly advertise the expertise we have by providing free advice and innovative suggestions.
  24. Encourage South Australian industry to reduce the size of its production plant, increase the distribution of its facilities, and to share sites with its suppliers. Thus reducing its dependence on road transportation, enabling it to operate a variety of production methods in its local facilities. Reducing the potential for large scale regional unemployment. Further reducing the regional concentration of industrial pollutants. And with products better adapted to local markets.
  25. Assist the restructuring of industry by designing the new site and plant layouts and the structural modifications of the buildings which house them.
  26. Promote the establishment of a large scale used goods and materials warehouse come supermarket. Especially on the basis of quality controller consumer protection, and alternative uses of discarded materials.
  27. Promote the construction of integrated industrial complexes providing common business and employee services.
  28. Promote the development of industrial communities.
  29. Develop a home management programme
    • General Energy usage : solar hot water, Solar heating/cooling, Car/transport fuel consumption,
    • Resources
    • Funds

4 OPERATIONAL GOALS(1 year)

4.1 GENERAL

  1. Produce Standard Operating Procedures(SOP) Manuals.
    • Administration
    • Computing (General)
    • Programming
    • CAD/CAE
  2. Document programs written.
    • List programs with brief description
    • List procedures with brief description of functions, parameter and output.
  3. Develop and document a methodical approach to problem solving. Along with style for presentation of : Handbooks, formulae sheets, standard calculation sheets, computer programs, spreadsheets, databases.
  4. Collect functions & procedures together into standard files.
  5. Recompile all programs using the standard libraries.
  6. Develop product and service ideas which have the potential for earning a living wage.
  7. Conduct some broad based market research.
  8. Determine and acquire the resources necessary to set up and operate the
  9. Get University of SA to setup student innovation groups, which have the potential to develop into new business enterprises.
  10. Integrate domestic and business plans. That means also produce domestic plans. (ie. alterations/improvements around house, retirement plans, holidays{trip to Egypt, China, England}, working for pleasure, )
  11. Nominate leader/motivator/manager.
  12. Prepare 12 month budget. (business & domestic)

5 SOFTWARE PRODUCT LIST

5.1 GENERAL

  1. PROGRAM WRITER
  2. PROGRAM FORMATTER/STYLE
  3. PROGRAM CONVERSION (including *.BAS to spreadsheets)

5.2 MANAGEMENT

  1. ENGINEERING OFFICE MANAGEMENT
  2. PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
  3. VEHICLE FLEET MANAGEMENT
  4. STOCK & INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
  5. PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS

5.3 ANALYTICAL MODELS

  1. BRANCHED PIPE PROFILE
  2. Calculates development lengths for a given angle of pipe intersection.
  3. BELT CONVEYOR DESIGN
  4. Calculates the power requirements, and the belt tensions for a belt conveyor.
  5. TANKWALL
  6. Analyses the stresses in a reinforced concrete tank wall.
  7. PIPE FLANGE ANALYSIS
  8. Analyses the stresses in a bolted pipe flange.
  9. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
  10. Calculation of forces in plane frames.
  11. FOOTING DESIGN
  12. Soil surface movement computations.

5.4 PROCEDURE LIBRARIES

  1. GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)
Routines for pop up menus, and data input.
  1. MATRIX & VECTOR OPERATIONS
Functions and procedures for performing matrix and vector arithmetic.
  1. EQUATION SOLVERS
Gaussian elimination, simplex algorithm and other equation solving techniques.
  1. MECHANICS & MATERIALS
Create a Material Object and descend all other components from this. Force & Stress Evaluation.
  1. DATA TRANSLATION & PROCESSING
  2. SDF to CDF and CDF to SDF.
    • DXF data extraction.
    • DBF data extraction.

5.5 INFORMATION/EDUCATION/TRAINING

  1. SPREADSHEET TEXTBOOK
Introduction to spreadsheets involving technical calculations, aimed at school students.
  1. SPREADSHEET COURSE
Introduction to spreadsheets involving technical calculations, aimed at practicing engineers.
  1. HOUSEHOLD INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Energy usage, water usage, financial management, maintenance. Common sense advice, expert systems.
  1. SHOPPING LIST ON DISK
    • Goods and prices available from local stores available on disk. Shopping list and store can be printed out. Disk available from individual stores, or for all stores.

6 MATERIAL GOODS

6.1 GENERAL

  1. COVER SEPARATOR FOR LEVER ARCH FILES
Bridge that keeps covers of lever arch files a separated by a constant distance.
  1. ELECTRONIC DATE/TIME STAMP
Date stamp (possibly dot matrix) which automatically changes date and time. No two documents likely to get the same date stamp on it. Automatic incremented document numbers could also be included.
  1. HOME LABORATORY KITS
Chemistry, physics, electronics and construction kits provided in aluminium or plastic carry cases.
  1. BICYCLE PANNIERS COME FRAMED RUCKSACK
Side and top pannier bags and frame removable from bike and can be folded from U into a flat backpack.

6.2 COMPUTING

  1. DISKETTE MANAGER
Self contained diskette manger, for formatting, naming, cataloguing, and generally managing computer diskettes.
  1. DOMESTIC
    • CLOTHES AIRER
Suspended old fashioned clothes airer.
  • PREFABRICATED CONCRETE GARAGES
Garages made from prefabricated concrete panels.
  • FURNITURE COME PACKING CASES
Household furniture, bookshelves, desks etc. that can be modified to become storage cases for transporting.
  1. WALL MODULES INTERIOR/EXTERIOR.
Cladding changeable (ie. coloured plastic for interior), movable. With preinstalled flush mounted appliances : GPO's, switches, lights, clocks, bookshelves.

7 PROPOSALS/ARTICLES/REPORTS

7.1 SECURITY

  1. FOURTH DEFENSIVE = 20%Military + 80%Civil Defence
  2. Public service constrained to administration & contract management.
  3. Land use strategy
  4. SUBMARINE RESCUE HATCH
Promote development of space shuttle type linkup, for bell to submarine rescue hatch.
  1. FIRE FIGHTING VEHICLE
Promote conversion of military type vehicles and equipment for fire fighting. (ie. personnel carriers, cruise missiles and cameras, space shuttle heat tiles, dozer blades)
  1. REMOTE VEHICLES
Remote ATV's, and submarines, for hazardous situations. (ie. fire fighting)

7.2 ENVIRONMENT

  1. AGRICULTURE
    • Containment of agricultural run-off and its reuse, thus decreasing purchases of fertiliser.
    • Mobile hydroponics laboratory. Also containerised soil suitable for transfer to other locations.
  2. Construction of seawater canals across deserts to alter climate.
  3. Placement of steel or concrete panels across deserts as sand breaks, to alter dune formation.
  4. Placement of steel or concrete panels through forest land to act as ground fire breaks.
  5. GARBAGE
    • Determine alternative uses for garbage. (ie. car tyres for construction, bicycle inner tubes for exercise)

7.3 EDUCATION

  1. ENGINEERING CUBS & CADETS ASSOCIATION
  2. U-SA STUDENT & GRADUATE HANDBOOK
  3. STUDENT INNOVATION GROUPS
  4. STUDENT & CITIZEN HANDBOOK (GRADE 1-10)
  5. TECH (5 YEARS)
  6. TECH (DRAFTING DESIGN)
  7. UNIVERSITY VS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  8. TEAMWORK & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING (U-SA a programme)
  9. old machinery to become childrens toys.

7.4 INDUSTRY

  1. INTEGRATED INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES
  2. USED GOODS HYPERMARKET
  3. PRODUCTION/UPGRADING CYCLES
  4. MATERIALS RECYCLING & WASTE MANAGEMENT
  5. ENERGY AUDITING
  6. ISO STANDARD FOR PROGRAM ALGORITHMS & OBJECTS
  7. FUTURE PURPOSE OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
  8. COMPUTER MANAGEMENT
  9. FACTORIES open to DIY enthusiasts (ie. carpentry shops)

7.5 COMMUNITY INFORMATION

  1. GUIDELINES FOR SPECIFYING OWN HOUSE DESIGN
  2. HOME OWNERS CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE MANUAL
  3. JOB SELECTION (arcade video game)
  4. PRODUCT & SERVICE ADVERTISING (arcade video game)
  5. Autobanks : social welfare credit cards
  6. STATISTICS COLLECTION, DEMAND MONITORING (arcade video games)
  7. EXTENDED USES FOR RESOURCE CARDS
    • photocopying (existing use)
    • stationary vending machines
  8. Traveling technology museum.
A APPENDIX
A.1 GLOSSARY
  1. Technician : Is a specialist responsible for proliferating, operating, maintaining, and refining engineered systems. (APPLY)
  2. Technologist : Is a creative leader responsible for the integration, harmonising and improvement of engineered systems. So that the proliferation of such systems continues to benefit humanity. (ADAPT)
  3. Engineer : Is a creative leader, implementing unique and original systems for the benefit of humanity. (ORIGINATE)
  4. Scientist : Is responsible for extending our understanding of the universe through unique and original thought.
  5. Engineering : The art and science devoted to getting the best results from available resources, provided always that quality and human satisfaction are met.
  6. Technology : Tools & Techniques, not necessarily having material form. (ie. Language is an abstract tool).
  7. Civilisation : A human society with extensive dependence on advanced material and abstract technologies. {is technology that is a conglomerate}
  8. Society : An organised and coordinated cooperative of humans. (ie. Language and communication are the only essential technologies). {is a technology}
  9. Craft Tools : those tools that an independent individual is capable of producing without assistance.
  10. Industrial Tools : those tools that require two or more persons to produce or operate.
  11. Technique : organised, coordinated methodical behaviour.
  12. Machine : a tool intended to magnify operator effort, and/or simplify the required technique to accomplish a task.


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PLAN200: Regular Activities

{Some overly idealistic goals, plans and objectives I wrote up in the early 1990's, and otherwise based on ideas I had in the 1980's and possibly as far back as the 1970's.}

Regular Activities For Timetabling
  1. Research & Development
    • Go To Library
      • Read
      • Take Notes
    • Writing
      • Letters
      • Articles
  2. Health & Fitness
    • Cycle Ride
    • Jogging
  3. Tidy
    • Bedroom
  4. Studies
    • Work On Correspondence Course
    • Industrial Engineering
      • Business Logistics
      • Business Statistics
      • Business Psychology
      • Production & Operations Management
      • Financial Reporting & Analysis
  5. Check Market For New Products & New Services
  6. Computing
    • Programming
    • Update Databases
      • Books
        • Non-Fiction
        • Fiction
      • Tool Inventry
      • Electrical Inventry
      • Records, Cassettes, Cd's, Videos
      • Drafting Equipment Inventry
      • Camping Equipment Inventry
      • Miscellaneous Inventry
  7. Job Search Plan
    • Visit To Ces
    • Buy Newspaper
      • Read Newspaper
      • * Count Jobs Available In The Various Categories
      • Engineering & Design
      • Draughting
      • Technical & Trades
      • Business & Commerce
      • Medical
      • Agricultural
      • Management
      • * Calculate Percentage Of Total For Each
      • * Produce An Histogram
      • * For Engineering Divide Into
        • Electrical
        • Electronic
        • Mechanical
        • Chemical
        • Mining
        • Civil
        • And Any Others Ie. Quality Control,
        • Industrial, Structural
      • * Produce An Histogram Of Numbers Of Jobs Types (Engineering)
      • * Calculate Percentage Of Total For Each Engineering Discipline
      • Compile Database Of Available Jobs Applied For
      • Produce Histogram Of Available Jobs Types
      • Write Job Applications To Local Companies
      • Send "Employer Survey" Forms To Employers Has Found In The Telephone Directory
      • * Use Such Information To Determine
      • Next Course Of Action. Such As Further Formal Education.
      • Which Of The Following :
        • Assoc. Dip. Business Industrial Eng.
        • B.Tech (Manufacturing)
        • Grad. Dip Computer Science
        • M.Sc Environmental Studies
        • B.Eng Mech Eng.
        • Assoc. Dip. Civil
        • Assoc. Dip. Computer Studies
        • Assoc. Dip. Electrical Eng.
        • Assoc. Dip. Electronic Eng.
        • B.A. Philosophy




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PLAN190: Materials List

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MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT PURCHASE LIST
  1. SPORT & CAMPING
    • Cycling Shirt
    • Sun Glasses (for cycling)
    • Pannier Bags & Frame
    • Running Shoes
    • LightWeight Boots
    • Hatchet
  2. CLOTHING
    • Casual/Formal Shoes
    • Casual Trousers
    • Jeans
  3. HYGIENE & GROOMING
  4. TOOLS & SAFETY
    • Steel Tape
    • Steel Rule
    • Ear Protectors
    • Safety Helmet
    • power ScrewDriver
  5. STATIONERY
    • Cash Box
    • DAILY PLANNER
    • WALL MAP ADELAIDE & SUBURBS
    • COLOURED MAP PINS :
      • ENGINEERING
      • DRAUGHTING
      • TECHNICAL & TRADE
      • BUSINESS/COMMERCE
      • MEDICAL
      • AGRICULTURAL
      • MANAGEMENT
    • FILES
      • JOB APPLICATION
      • EMPLOYER INFORMATION
      • EMPLOYMENT MARKET SURVEY
      • JOB DEFINITION INCOMPATIBILITY
  6. COMPUTING
    • * HARDWARE
      • (see computer specification)
    • * SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
      • # LANGUAGES
        • TURBO PASCAL
        • TURBO C
        • TURBO PROLOG
      • QUATTRO PRO
      • REFLEX
      • PARADOX
      • SPRINT
      • XEROX VENTURA
      • AUTOCAD



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PLAN181: Computer Specification

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OPTIONS FOR SPECIFICATION OF COMPUTER (Early 1990's)
PROCESSOR 386 or 386SX
  • 20MHz
  • 25MHz
  • 33MHz
MEMORY 
  • 2 Mb RAM
  • 4 Mb RAM
  • 8 Mb RAM
FIXED STORAGE 
  • 80 Mb HDD
REMOVABLE STORAGE 
  •  1.2 Mb FDD
  • 1.4 Mb FDD
PORTS : 2 SERIAL
  • 1 PARALLEL (PRN)
  • 1 GAMES
OS : MS-DOS 5 or UNIX
KEYBRD : 101 ext
MONITOR super VGA
Maths Coprocessor

Not sure when I wrote this specification. Possibly wrote as text file on old Microbee computer in a book, before getting computer that could run Quattro Pro for windows version 1. This was extracted from Qpro file, and the computer I was running QPro on was faster [40 MHz] than the desired specification given above.

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PLAN180: Computing

{Some overly idealistic goals, plans and objectives I wrote up in the early 1990's, and otherwise based on ideas I had in the 1980's and possibly as far back as the 1970's.}


 FUNCTIONS & PROCEDURES
  • All functions and procedures should be written in Pascal and/or C and such that there is little difference between the look of the source code. So that there is programmers style, and such that conversion from one language to another is a breeze.
  • # OpenFiles :
    • input
    • output
  • # ReadFile :
    • strings :
      • SDF
      • CDF
      • DXF
      • records
      • values
  • # WriteFile
    • strings :
      • SDF
      • CDF
      • DXF
      • DBase
      • StrucDes
        • node points
        • members, node connections
        • member, node names
        • member type
      • Microstran
  • # Menus :
    • input screen
    • prompted input
    • value
    • units
  • # SingleScreen SpreadSheet
  • # Printer Formatting
    • SuperScript
    • SubScript
    • Compressed
    • PageLength
    • Margins
  • # Disk Management & DOS utilities
    • LIMIT.EXE
    • limited access to DOS commands for USERS
    • of own computer. Executed by Autoexec.BAT
    • logged onto drive D: in TMP directory. Only
    • access to commands :
    • dir
    • del (except del *.*)
    • md
    • rd
    • -{copy, format a:, print} ?
    • everything in TMP directory deleted, on exit
    • from LIMIT, and/or at boot up of computer
    • "SU" command to be provided to exit from
    • LIMIT and goto DOS proper. To do so is to
    • require USERNAME and PASSWORD.
    • Also to provide :
    • ed {small text editor}
    • mail {user messages}
    • assist {menu assistance}
    • Menu assisted Diskette formatting
    • Program listing management
    • Program File management
    • Diskette covers labels
  • * ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE BASE
    • # Engineering Notation
      • UnitPrefixes
    • # Calculator
      • HP-32E Simulator
    • # Mathematics Library
      • Matrices
        • general operations
        • row reduction
        • solution of systems of equations
        • homogeneous
        • non-homgeneous
      • Vectors
        • R2 definitions & operations
        • R3 definitions & operations
        • Rn definitions & operations
      • Coordinate forms
        • Rectangular to Polar
        • Polar to Rectangular
        • Complex to Rectangular
        • Complex number arithmetic
    • # Project Management
      • Precedence Chart program
      • Staff list program
    • # Mechanics Library
      • Kinematics
        • linear motion functions
        • rotational motion functions
      • Kinectics
        • force & moment{torques}
        • vector summation
        • rotor balance
        • impulse & momentum
        • work
          • Kinectic energy
          • Potential energy
    • # Strength of Materials Library
      • stress & strain functions
        • biaxial
        • triaxial
      • section properties
        • functions
        • tables
    • # Machinery Library
      • Shaft Design
        • static design
        • fatigue design
      • Beam design
        • variable loadings
      • Column design
      • Bolted joint analysis
      • Welded joint analysis
      • Spring design
      • Gear Design
      • Branched pipe profile plotter
      • Cam profile plotter
      • Venturi design
      • Vibration analysis
      • Modify/upgrade Conveyor Design Program
      • Tolerance Evaluation
    • # ThermoDynamics Library
      • Pipe Temperature Program
      • mass energy flow balance
    • # Electrical Library
      • electricity functions
      • DC circuit analysis
      • AC circuit analysis
    • # Physics Library
      • planetary motion
      • electrostatics
    • # Chemistry Library
      • Chemical ThermoDynamics
      • ElectroChemistry
    • # Procedures for AutoCAD
      • Schedule Builder
      • Gantt Chart plotter
      • Change layer names
      • Change &/or Eliminate Text styles




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