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Timer class for HOST and DEVICE HOST timer: "HOST" (default) Wall (real) clock host time, "CPU" User time, "SYS" User/Kernel/System time "DEVICE" Wall clock device time.
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<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
With this action we enable the following actions in pager - add, edit, del, search, refresh, export to excel.
The view action is disabled.
To disable some action in navigator use setNavOptions method specifiyng the word navigator. If by example we want to disable adding of records do this
<?php ... // Create the jqGridRender instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('navigator',array('add'=>false)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To change a option in some module use the following methods
setNavOptions(...)
setNavEvent(...)
with first parameter refering to the desired module.
By example if we want to change the width and height of the form and want this to be constant in editing adding records do the following.
Editing by default is disabled when the grid is created. To enable set navigator variable to true.<?php ... // Create the jqGridRender instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('edit',array("width"=>500, "height"=>300, "recreateForm"=>true)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To disable a editing in already created navigator you should use navigator property to disable the method<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('navigator',araray("edit"=>false)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To set a particular option and event in the edit form use
setNavOptions(...)
setNavEvent(...)
with first parameter edit. i.e
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('edit',araray(...)); $grid->setNavEvent('edit',araray(...)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To call a method in custom java script code use the following convension.
WherejQuery("#grid_id").jqGrid('editGridRow', rowid, properties );
The method uses the following properties from language file:
$.jgrid = { ... edit : { addCaption: "Add Record", editCaption: "Edit Record", bSubmit: "Submit", bCancel: "Cancel", bClose: "Close", saveData: "Data has been changed! Save changes?", bYes : "Yes", bNo : "No", bExit : "Cancel", ... }, ... }
These options can be overwritten when passed as options to the method. When passed to the method we should use by example "bSubmit" => “Submit” and not "$.jgrid.edit.bSubmit" => “Submit”
Properties
|
Property |
Description |
Default |
|---|---|---|
|
top |
the initial top position of modal dialog. The default value of 0 mean the top position from the upper left corner of the grid. When jqModal option is true (see below) and jqModal plugin is present any value different from 0 mean the top position from upper left corner of the window. |
0 |
|
left |
the initial left position of modal dialog. The default value of 0 mean the left position from the upper left corner of the grid. When jqModal option is true (see below) and jqModal plugin is present any value different from 0 mean the left position from upper left corner of the window. |
0 |
|
width |
the width of confirmation dialog |
300 |
|
height |
the entry height of confirmation dialog |
auto |
|
dataheight |
the parameter control the scrolling content - i.e between the modal header and modal footer. |
auto |
|
modal |
determines if the dialog will be modal. Also works only if jqModal plugin is present |
false |
|
overlay |
Determines the overlay of the modal. Also works only if jqModal plugin is present |
10 |
|
drag |
Determines if the dialog is dragabale. Works only if jqDnR plugin is present or if the dragable widget is present from jQuery UI |
true |
|
resize |
determines if the dialog can be resized. Works only is jqDnR plugin is available or resizable widget is present from jQuery UI |
true |
|
url |
url where to post data. If set, replaces the editurl |
null |
|
mtype |
Defines the type of request to make (“POST” or “GET”) when data is sent to the server |
POST |
|
editData |
an array used to add content to the data posted to the server |
empty |
|
recreateForm |
when set to true the form is recreated every time the dialog is activeted with the new options from colModel (if they are changed) |
false |
|
jqModal |
If set to true uses jqModal plugin (if present) to creat the dialogs. If set to true and the plugin is not present jqGrid uses its internal function to create dialog |
true |
|
addedrow |
Controls where the row just added is placed: 'first' at the top of the gird, 'last' at the bottom. Where the new row is to appear in its natural sort order, set reloadAfterSubmit: true |
first |
|
topinfo |
When set this information is placed just after the modal header as additional row |
empty string |
|
bottominfo |
When set this information is placed just after the buttons of the form as additional row |
empty string |
|
saveicon |
array. Determines the icon of the submit button. The default value is [true,”left”,”ui-icon-disk”]. The first item enables/disables the icon. The second item tells where to put the icon to left or to right of the text. The third item corresponds to valid ui icon from theme roller |
|
|
closeicon |
Array. Determines the icon of the cancel button. The default values are [true,”left”,”ui-icon-close”]. For description of these see saveicon |
|
|
savekey |
array. Determines the possibility to save the form
with pressing a certain key.The first item enables/disables saving
with pressing certain key. The second item corresponds to key code
for saving. If enabled the default value for saving is [Enter]. |
[false,13] |
|
navkeys |
array. This option works only in edit mode and add keyboard navigation, which allow us to navigate through the records while in form editing pressing certain keys. The default state is disabled. The first item enables/disables the navigation. The second item corresponds to reccord up and by default is the the key code for Up key. The third item corresponds to reccord down and by default is the key code for Down key |
[false,38,40] |
|
checkOnSubmit |
This option work only in editing mode. If Set to true this option will work only when a submit button is clicked and if any data is changed in the form. If the data is changed a dilog message appear where the user is asked to confirm the changes or cancel it. Pressing cancel button of the new dialog will return to the form, but does not set the values to its original state. |
false |
|
checkOnUpdate |
This option is applicable in add and edit mode. When
this option is set to true the behaviour as follow: |
false |
|
closeAfterAdd |
when add mode, close the dialog after add record |
false |
|
clearAfterAdd |
when add mode, clear the data after adding data |
true |
|
closeAfterEdit |
when in edit mode, close the dialog after editing |
false |
|
reloadAfterSubmit |
reload grid data after posting |
true |
|
closeOnEscape |
When set to true the modal window can be closed with ESC key from the user. |
false |
|
ajaxEditOptions |
This option allow to set global ajax settings for the form editiing when we save the data to the server. Note that with this option is possible to overwrite all current ajax setting in the save request including the complete event. |
empty array |
|
viewPagerButtons |
This option enable or disable the appearing of the previous and next buttons (pager buttons) in the form |
true |
Events
|
Event |
Description |
|---|---|
|
afterclickPgButtons |
This event can be used only when we are in edit mode
and the navigator buttons are enabled; it fires after the data for
the new row is loaded from the grid, allowing modification of the
data or form before the form is redisplayed. |
|
afterComplete |
This event fires immediately after all actions and
events are completed and the row is inserted or updated in the
grid. |
|
afterShowForm |
fires after showing the form; receives as Parameter
the id of the constructed form. |
|
afterSubmit |
fires after response has been received from server.
Typically used to display status from server (e.g., the data is
successfully saved or the save cancelled for server-side editing
reasons). Receives as parameters the data returned from the
request and an array of the posted values of type
id=value1,value2. |
|
beforeCheckValues |
This event fires before checking the values (if
checking is defined in colModel via editrules option). |
|
beforeInitData |
fires before initialize the new form data. Receives,
as parameter, the id of the constructed form. |
|
beforeShowForm |
fires before showing the form with the new data;
receives as Parameter the id of the constructed form. |
|
beforeSubmit |
fires before the data is submitted to the server.
Recieves as parameter the posted data array and the formid. |
|
onclickPgButtons |
This event can be used only when we are in edit
mode; it fires immediately after the previous or next button is
clicked, before leaving the current row, allowing working with
(e.g., saving) the currently loaded values in the form. |
|
onclickSubmit |
fires after the submit button is clicked and the
postdata is constructed. Parameters passed to this event are: a
options array of the method and the posted data array. The event
should return array of type {} which extends the postdata array. |
|
onInitializeForm |
fires only once when creating the data for editing
and adding. Receives, as parameter, the id of the constructed
form. |
|
onClose |
This event is called just before closing the form and when a close icon is clicked, a cancel button is clicked, ESC key is pressed or click on overlay (if jqModal is present). The event can return (optionally) true or false. If the return value is true the form is closed, if false the form does not close. If nothing is returned the form is closed |
|
errorTextFormat |
The event (can) fire when error occurs from the ajax call and can be used for better formatting of the error messages. To this event is passed response from the server. The event should return single message (not array), which then is displayed to the user. |
|
serializeEditData |
If set this event can serialize the data passed to the ajax request when we save a form data. The function should return the serialized data. This event can be used when a custom data should be passed to the server - e.g - JSON string, XML string and etc. To this event is passed the data which will be posted to the server |
How is the form constructed
When the form is constructed we set the following rules:
This allow us to easily show or hide some table rows depending on conditions using beforeShowForm event<form ....>

  Caption	 edited element named, in colModel, as "myfield"
 ...
 </form>
When we are in editing mode the data that is posted to the server is object {} that contain:
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To disable a adding in already created navigator you should use navigator property to disable the method
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('navigator',araray("add"=>false)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To set a particular option and event in the add form use
setNavOptions(...)
setNavEvent(...)
with first parameter add. i.e
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('add',araray(...)); $grid->setNavEvent('add',araray(...)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
This method uses Common Editing Properties from colModel and editurl option from jqGrid
The editGridRow method is also used to add data to the server, by passing “new” as the rowid when called in custom JavaScript code
This method uses Common Editing Properties from colModel and editurl option from jqGrid.
Calling convention:
jQuery("#grid_id").jqGrid('editGridRow, "new", properties );
Where
The method uses the following properties from language file:
$.jgrid = { ... edit : { addCaption: "Add Record", editCaption: "Edit Record", bSubmit: "Submit", bCancel: "Cancel", bClose: "Close", saveData: "Data has been changed! Save changes?", bYes : "Yes", bNo : "No", bExit : "Cancel", ... }, ... }
The options are the same as those in editng row - See above.
How is the form constructed
When the form is constructed we set the following rules:
<form ....>

  Caption	 edited element named, in colModel, as "myfield"
 ...
 </form>
This allow us to easily show or hide some table rows depending on conditions using beforeShowForm event
What is posted to the server
When we are in add mode the data that is posted to the server is object {} that contain:
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('navigator',araray("view"=>true)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To set a particular option and event in the view form use
setNavOptions(...)
setNavEvent(...)
with first parameter view. i.e
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('view',araray(...)); $grid->setNavEvent('view',araray(...)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To call a method in custom java script code use the following convension.
WherejQuery("#grid_id").jqGrid('viewGridRow', rowid, properties );
The method uses the following properties from language file:
$.jgrid = { ... view : { caption: "View Record", bClose: "Close" }, ...
Properties
|
Property |
Description |
Default |
|---|---|---|
|
top |
the initial top position of modal dialog. The default value of 0 mean the top position from the upper left corner of the grid. When jqModal option is true (see below) and jqModal plugin is present any value different from 0 mean the top position from upper left corner of the window. |
0 |
|
left |
the initial left position of modal dialog. The default value of 0 mean the left position from the upper left corner of the grid. When jqModal option is true (see below) and jqModal plugin is present any value different from 0 mean the left position from upper left corner of the window. |
0 |
|
width |
the width of confirmation dialog |
300 |
|
height |
the entry height of confirmation dialog |
auto |
|
dataheight |
the parameter control the scrolling content - i.e between the modal header and modal footer. |
auto |
|
modal |
determines if the dialog will be modal. Also works only if jqModal plugin is present |
false |
|
drag |
Determines if the dialog is dragabale. Works only if jqDnR plugin is present or if the dragable widget is present from jQuery UI |
true |
|
resize |
determines if the dialog can be resized. Works only is jqDnR plugin is available or resizable widget is present from jQuery UI |
true |
|
jqModal |
If set to true uses jqModal plugin (if present) to creat the dialogs. If set to true and the plugin is not present jqGrid uses its internal function to create dialog |
true |
|
topinfo |
When set this information is placed just after the modal header as additional row |
empty string |
|
bottominfo |
When set this information is placed just after the buttons of the form as additional row |
empty string |
|
closeicon |
Array. Determines the icon of the cancel button. The default values are [true,”left”,”ui-icon-close”]. For description of these see saveicon |
|
|
navkeys |
array. This option works only in edit mode and add keyboard navigation, which allow us to navigate through the records while in form editing pressing certain keys. The default state is disabled. The first item enables/disables the navigation. The second item corresponds to reccord up and by default is the the key code for Up key. The third item corresponds to reccord down and by default is the key code for Down key |
[false,38,40] |
|
closeOnEscape |
When set to true the modal window can be closed with ESC key from the user. |
false |
|
labelswidth |
Since we construct the view with table element it is difficult to calculate, in this case, how much width is needed for the labels. Depending on the needs this value can be increased or decreased |
30% |
|
viewPagerButtons |
This option enable or disable the appearing of the previous and next buttons (pager buttons) in the form |
true |
Events
|
Event |
Description |
|---|---|
|
onClose |
This event is called just before closing the form and when a close icon is clicked, a cancel button is clicked, ESC key is pressed or click on overlay (if jqModal is present). The event can return (optionally) true or false. If the return value is true the form is closed, if false the form does not close. If nothing is returned the form is closed |
|
beforeShowForm |
fires before showing the form with the new data;
receives as Parameter the id of the constructed form. |
When the form is constructed we set the following rules:
<form ....>

  Caption	 content of"myfield"
 ...
 </form>
Deleting by default is disabled when the grid is created. To enable set navigator variable to true.
To disable a deleting in already created navigator you should use navigator property to disable the method<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('navigator',araray("del"=>false)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To set a particular option and event in the delete form use
setNavOptions(...)
setNavEvent(...)
with first parameter del. i.e
<?php ... // Create the jqGrid instance $grid = new jqGridRender($conn); ... $grid->navigator = true; $grid->setNavOptions('del',araray(...)); $grid->setNavEvent('del',araray(...)); $grid->renderGrid(...); ?>
To call a method in custom java script code use the following convension.
jQuery("#grid_id").jqGrid('delGridRow', row_id_s, options );
Where:
The method uses the following properties from language file:
These options can be overwritten when passed as options to the method. When passed to the method we should use by example "bSubmit" => “Delete” and not "$.jgrid.del.bSubmit" => “Delete”$.jgrid = { ... del : { caption: "Delete", msg: "Delete selected record(s)?", bSubmit: "Delete", bCancel: "Cancel" }, ...
Properties
|
Property |
Description |
Default |
|---|---|---|
|
top |
the initial top position of modal dialog. The default value of 0 mean the top position from the upper left corner of the grid. When jqModal option is true (see below) and jqModal plugin is present any value different from 0 mean the top position from upper left corner of the window. |
0 |
|
left |
the initial left position of modal dialog. The default value of 0 mean the left position from the upper left corner of the grid. When jqModal option is true (see below) and jqModal plugin is present any value different from 0 mean the left position from upper left corner of the window. |
0 |
|
width |
the width of confirmation dialog |
300 |
|
height |
the entry height of confirmation dialog |
auto |
|
dataheight |
the parameter control the scrolling content - i.e between the modal header and modal footer. |
auto |
|
modal |
determines if the dialog will be modal. Also works only if jqModal plugin is present |
false |
|
drag |
Determines if the dialog is dragabale. Works only if jqDnR plugin is present or if the dragable widget is present from jQuery UI |
true |
|
resize |
determines if the dialog can be resized. Works only is jqDnR plugin is available or resizable widget is present from jQuery UI |
true |
|
url |
url where to post data. If set, replaces the editurl |
null |
|
mtype |
Defines the type of request to make (“POST” or “GET”) when data is sent to the server |
POST |
|
delData |
an array used to add content to the data posted to the server |
empty |
|
jqModal |
If set to true uses jqModal plugin (if present) to creat the dialogs. If set to true and the plugin is not present jqGrid uses its internal function to create dialog |
true |
|
delicon |
array. Determines the icon of the submit button. The default value is [true,”left”,”ui-icon-delete”]. The first item enables/disables the icon. The second item tells where to put the icon to left or to right of the text. The third item corresponds to valid ui icon from theme roller |
|
|
cancelicon |
Array. Determines the icon of the cancel button. The default values are [true,”left”,”ui-icon-cancel”]. For description of these see delicon |
|
|
reloadAfterSubmit |
reload grid data after posting |
true |
|
closeOnEscape |
When set to true the modal window can be closed with ESC key from the user. |
false |
|
ajaxDelOptions |
This option allow to set global ajax settings for the form editiing when we delete the data to the server. Note that with this option is possible to overwrite all current ajax setting in the delete request including the complete event. |
empty array |
Events
|
Event |
Description |
|---|---|
|
afterComplete |
This event fires immediately after all actions and
events are completed and the row is inserted or updated in the
grid. |
|
afterShowForm |
fires after showing the form; receives as Parameter
the id of the constructed form. |
|
afterSubmit |
fires after response has been received from server.
Typically used to display status from server (e.g., the data is
successfully deleted or the delete cancelled for server-side
reasons). Receives as parameters the data returned from the
request and an array of the posted values of type
id=value1,value2. |
|
beforeShowForm |
fires before showing the form with the new data;
receives as Parameter the id of the constructed form. |
|
beforeSubmit |
fires before the data is submitted to the server.
Recieves as parameter the posted data array and the formid. |
|
onclickSubmit |
fires after the submit button is clicked and the
postdata is constructed. Parameters passed to this event is a
options array of the method. The event should return array of type
{} which extends the postdata array. |
|
onClose |
This event is called just before closing the form and when a close icon is clicked, a cancel button is clicked, ESC key is pressed or click on overlay (if jqModal is present). The event can return (optionally) true or false. If the return value is true the form is closed, if false the form does not close. If nothing is returned the form is closed |
What is posted to the server
When we are in delete mode the data that is posted to the server is object {} that contain:


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Company profile - Canadian Company Capabilities
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LJ Welding Automation
Mailing Address:
4747 76th Ave NWEDMONTON, Alberta
T6B 0A3
Location Address:
4747 76th Ave NWEDMONTON, Alberta
T6B 0A3
Tel.:<PHONE_NUMBER>
Fax:
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Company Profile
LJ manufactures welding automation and pipe fabrication equipment in our Edmonton facility and sell to 38 countries around the world. Equipment includes pipe and vessel rollers, along with pipeline and rigging rollers. We do sales, rentals and customized projects.
Full profile
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Contact information
Company description
333990 - All Other General-Purpose Machinery Manufacturing
417210 - Construction and Forestry Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
417220 - Mining and Oil and Gas Well Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
417230 - Industrial Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
417990 - All Other Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
532490 - Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing
Product / Service / Licensing
Welding positioners are used for diverse applications ranging from pipe spooling to positioning of very large cumbersome parts such as chassis components or structural steel.
LJ provides top quality welding positioners for a diverse range of weld positioning applications including:
automated gear tilt positioners
Gear Tilt Positioners – gear tilt positioners are used for powered variable speed tilting and rotation, used to automate and increase welding productivity of cumbersome, heavy work pieces
Pipe Turning Positioners – pipe turning positioners are used for extremely cost effective pipe spooling and turning of heavy pipe, elbows and fittings
Powered Height, Tilt & Rotate Positioners
Powered Headstock / Tailstock Positioners
Benchtop Positioners – Small positioners are typically referred to as bench top or table top positioners, used for turning of small pipe or fittings when powerful turning torque, tilting functions are required in a lightweight package
Manual Welding Positioners – ideal for use in applications where power source is not available or limited
specialty positioners
Hard Surfacing Positioners – custom welding positioners for applications ranging from overlay hard surfacing applications and more
Turning rolls are used for rolling and positioning for applications including small oil and gas pipe, wind towers, enormous pressure vessels and more. All LJ turning rolls can be customized with track mount wheels, or any other custom accessories:
Tank Fit-Up Rolls
Tank Fit-Up Rolls – used for fit-up of vessel shells or to roll thin walled tanks as an alternative to turning rolls
Vessel Turning Rolls
Vessel Turning Rolls – used for turning and rolling large vessels, typically in tandem with boom and column manipulators housing subarc welding equipment
rollers for large pipe
Pipe Alignment Rollers – LJ alignment rolls are designed for specialty applications where pipe or vessels require precise, fast alignment and fine leveling for fit-up and welding
Pipe Turning Rolls
Pipe Rollers – for pipe welding applications ranging from light tubes to extra-heavy walled pipe
Pipe rigging rollers are used for a variety of applications, in particular for installation of pipe into racks at refineries, power plants, and other industrial facilities. All LJ pipe rigging rollers are designed to be lightweight, with beam clamps for quick installation and various roller head options so that pipe can be easily, safely, and efficiently be installed.
There are three main styles of pipe rigging rollers:
Multi-directional rollers for pipe rolling in all directions
Conical beam clamp rigging rollers for rolling pipe into racks
Powered rigging rollers- for rolling pipe into racks, equipped with self-locking
geared wheel spacing features and powered roller/driver
Beam clamp rigging rollers are used for installation of pipe in racks and modules where space is limited and cranes cannot access, using rolling elements to enhance productivity and safety.
LJ pipe rigging rollers are designed to clamp onto a range of structural beams for any pipe installation application such as refineries, modules, and many others.
Welding Pipe Stands are used for rolling pipe, supporting pipe, and handling pipe safely and efficiently. LJ pipe roller stands are typically used as rolling pipe supports for welding positioning applications. LJ offers a wide range of roller stand options for any pipe diameter and weight.
Pipe stands are available in various models and styles, and are a necessary piece of equipment utilized in many applications including:
Shutdown Maintenance Programs
Gas Plant Construction
Pipeline Construction
Fabrication Shops and Module Construction
Rig Welding
LJ offers a large variety of roller and collapsible stands that will satisfy virtually any application.
LJ has built a variety of spreader beams for many custom applications, designed to match our customer's material handling requirements. Specific examples of spreader beam applications to our credit include:
spreader beams1 Ton Pipe Rolling Spreader Beam - used to haul defective pipe out of an oilsands facility in Fort McMurray. Designed, built, inspected, certified, and delivered to site in less than 4 weeks.
1 Ton Pipe Rigging Beam with Transverse hoist - used for similar application as above but supplied with hoist and trolley to allow for transverse motion.
Ton Gantry Crane - fabricated for a large utility company to spread load for heavy lifting application.
Ton Custom Load Beam - fabricated for a large utility company to spread load for heavy lifting application.
Cylinder Storage Capacity: Stores up to 20 cylinders (9 5/8 diameter bottles)
Additional Features: Fork pockets and lift eye for ease of movement, lockable door, fully engineered and certified for overhead lifting
Load Capacity: 6,000 lbs
Shipping Dimensions: 112" x 52.5" x 29"
Turning Torque: 40,000 in-lbs
Power Requirements: 208 V, 3-ph
Rotation Speed: 0.2–2 RPM
Height Adjustability: 23"-66" (hydraulically actuated height adjustability)
Range of Operation: 0°-135°
Ground Capacity: 800
Equipment Mass: 4,650 lbs Amps
3432-Electric Resistance Welding Equipment
3433-Gas Welding, Heat Cutting, and Metallizing Equipment
3436-Welding Positioners and Manipulators
3438-Miscellaneous Welding Equipment
3439-Miscellaneous Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Supplies and Accessories
3650-Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products Manufacturing Machinery
3685-Specialized Metal Container Manufacturing Machinery and Related Equipment
Market profile
Alliances:
- Sales/Marketing
Strategic alliances:
Interested in finding resellers that are eager to sell our equipment.Industry sector market interests:
- Medical/Biotechnology/Chemical
- Mining/Petroleum/Gas
- Aerospace
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Primary and Fabricated Metal
Geographic markets:
Export experience:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Denmark
- Egypt
- France
- French Polynesia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Mexico
- Myanmar
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russian Federation
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Sector information
Key / Major clients:
Syncrude, Suncor, NASA, FMC, PCL Construction, Husky Energy, Fint Energy, CB&I, Kinder Morgan, Enbridge, Exxon Mobil, Robert B. Somerville Co, SNC-Lavalin, Siapem, Kiewit, Cameron, Halliburton, NASA, US Navy, GE Oil & Gas, GE Nuclear Energy, Black and MacDonald, etc.Success stories:
Feel free to ask which company and if you'd also like references.International capital projects:
ManyThird-Party Information Liability Disclaimer
Some of the information on this Web page has been provided by external sources. The Government of Canada is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or currency of the information supplied by external sources. Users wishing to rely upon this information should consult directly with the source of the information. Content provided by external sources is not subject to official languages, privacy and accessibility requirements.
Contacts
Contact information
Description
Company description
333990 - All Other General-Purpose Machinery Manufacturing
417210 - Construction and Forestry Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
417220 - Mining and Oil and Gas Well Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
417230 - Industrial Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
417990 - All Other Machinery, Equipment and Supplies Wholesaler-Distributors
532490 - Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing
Products, services and licensing
Product / Service / Licensing
Welding positioners are used for diverse applications ranging from pipe spooling to positioning of very large cumbersome parts such as chassis components or structural steel.
LJ provides top quality welding positioners for a diverse range of weld positioning applications including:
automated gear tilt positioners
Gear Tilt Positioners – gear tilt positioners are used for powered variable speed tilting and rotation, used to automate and increase welding productivity of cumbersome, heavy work pieces
Pipe Turning Positioners – pipe turning positioners are used for extremely cost effective pipe spooling and turning of heavy pipe, elbows and fittings
Powered Height, Tilt & Rotate Positioners
Powered Headstock / Tailstock Positioners
Benchtop Positioners – Small positioners are typically referred to as bench top or table top positioners, used for turning of small pipe or fittings when powerful turning torque, tilting functions are required in a lightweight package
Manual Welding Positioners – ideal for use in applications where power source is not available or limited
specialty positioners
Hard Surfacing Positioners – custom welding positioners for applications ranging from overlay hard surfacing applications and more
Turning rolls are used for rolling and positioning for applications including small oil and gas pipe, wind towers, enormous pressure vessels and more. All LJ turning rolls can be customized with track mount wheels, or any other custom accessories:
Tank Fit-Up Rolls
Tank Fit-Up Rolls – used for fit-up of vessel shells or to roll thin walled tanks as an alternative to turning rolls
Vessel Turning Rolls
Vessel Turning Rolls – used for turning and rolling large vessels, typically in tandem with boom and column manipulators housing subarc welding equipment
rollers for large pipe
Pipe Alignment Rollers – LJ alignment rolls are designed for specialty applications where pipe or vessels require precise, fast alignment and fine leveling for fit-up and welding
Pipe Turning Rolls
Pipe Rollers – for pipe welding applications ranging from light tubes to extra-heavy walled pipe
Pipe rigging rollers are used for a variety of applications, in particular for installation of pipe into racks at refineries, power plants, and other industrial facilities. All LJ pipe rigging rollers are designed to be lightweight, with beam clamps for quick installation and various roller head options so that pipe can be easily, safely, and efficiently be installed.
There are three main styles of pipe rigging rollers:
Multi-directional rollers for pipe rolling in all directions
Conical beam clamp rigging rollers for rolling pipe into racks
Powered rigging rollers- for rolling pipe into racks, equipped with self-locking
geared wheel spacing features and powered roller/driver
Beam clamp rigging rollers are used for installation of pipe in racks and modules where space is limited and cranes cannot access, using rolling elements to enhance productivity and safety.
LJ pipe rigging rollers are designed to clamp onto a range of structural beams for any pipe installation application such as refineries, modules, and many others.
Welding Pipe Stands are used for rolling pipe, supporting pipe, and handling pipe safely and efficiently. LJ pipe roller stands are typically used as rolling pipe supports for welding positioning applications. LJ offers a wide range of roller stand options for any pipe diameter and weight.
Pipe stands are available in various models and styles, and are a necessary piece of equipment utilized in many applications including:
Shutdown Maintenance Programs
Gas Plant Construction
Pipeline Construction
Fabrication Shops and Module Construction
Rig Welding
LJ offers a large variety of roller and collapsible stands that will satisfy virtually any application.
LJ has built a variety of spreader beams for many custom applications, designed to match our customer's material handling requirements. Specific examples of spreader beam applications to our credit include:
spreader beams1 Ton Pipe Rolling Spreader Beam - used to haul defective pipe out of an oilsands facility in Fort McMurray. Designed, built, inspected, certified, and delivered to site in less than 4 weeks.
1 Ton Pipe Rigging Beam with Transverse hoist - used for similar application as above but supplied with hoist and trolley to allow for transverse motion.
Ton Gantry Crane - fabricated for a large utility company to spread load for heavy lifting application.
Ton Custom Load Beam - fabricated for a large utility company to spread load for heavy lifting application.
Cylinder Storage Capacity: Stores up to 20 cylinders (9 5/8 diameter bottles)
Additional Features: Fork pockets and lift eye for ease of movement, lockable door, fully engineered and certified for overhead lifting
Load Capacity: 6,000 lbs
Shipping Dimensions: 112" x 52.5" x 29"
Turning Torque: 40,000 in-lbs
Power Requirements: 208 V, 3-ph
Rotation Speed: 0.2–2 RPM
Height Adjustability: 23"-66" (hydraulically actuated height adjustability)
Range of Operation: 0°-135°
Ground Capacity: 800
Equipment Mass: 4,650 lbs Amps
3432-Electric Resistance Welding Equipment
3433-Gas Welding, Heat Cutting, and Metallizing Equipment
3436-Welding Positioners and Manipulators
3438-Miscellaneous Welding Equipment
3439-Miscellaneous Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Supplies and Accessories
3650-Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products Manufacturing Machinery
3685-Specialized Metal Container Manufacturing Machinery and Related Equipment
Market
Market profile
Alliances:
- Sales/Marketing
Strategic alliances:
Interested in finding resellers that are eager to sell our equipment.Industry sector market interests:
- Medical/Biotechnology/Chemical
- Mining/Petroleum/Gas
- Aerospace
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Primary and Fabricated Metal
Geographic markets:
Export experience:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Denmark
- Egypt
- France
- French Polynesia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Mexico
- Myanmar
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russian Federation
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States


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How to create a slap-up family Christmas dinner for less than £50
It includes Bucks Fizz and Christmas cake
by James AndrewsChristmas dinner is probably one of the most loved meals of the year.
But when you add up the cost of the meat, all the trimmings and a sweet treat, it can also be an extremely expensive meal.
So financial app Wagestream went on a hunt for all the Christmas dinner essentials and where you can buy them cheapest.
They found a way to cook the meal for four people for less than £50, MirrorOnline reports.
Wagestream chief executive Peter Briffett said: "Christmas can be hugely stressful for many households, as there is massive pressure to deliver the perfect day for all the family.
"We thought it would be nice to do some research to show that you don’t have to spend a fortune to have a great Christmas — and you don’t need to scrimp on the simple pleasures either."
Christmas dinner comes with all the trimmings - from sprouts and carrots to Chipolatas and parsnips.
In fact, the most expensive bit of the whole meal is the turkey, which costs £9.99 from Lidl.
Here's the full list of what's included and where to buy it:
Dinner and drinks
- Turkey - Lidl Braemoor Ready Basted Small British Turkey with Giblets - £9.99
- Roast potatoes - Tesco Roast Potatoes, 800G, £1
- Gravy - Tesco Schwartz Classic Roast Turkey Gravy Mix, 25G, £0.90
- Mince pies - Tesco Mince Pies 6 Pack £0.87 1 £0.87
- Bacon - Tesco Woodside Farms Cooking Bacon, 500G, £0.72
- Brussels sprouts - Waitrose essential Brussel sprouts, 500g, £0.65
- Carrots - Waitrose essential carrots, 0.6kg, £0.42
- Parsnips - Tesco Parsnips Loose Class 1, 0.15kg, £0.18
- Chipolatas - Sainsbury's Butcher's Choice Pork Chipolata Sausages x12, £1.40
- Christmas pudding - Lidl Favorina Christmas Pudding, £3.39
- Brandy butter - Tesco Brandy Butter, 200G, £1.74
- Christmas cake - Tesco Fully Iced Fruit Cake, 907G, £6
- Sherry - Asda Fino Sherry, £4.70
- Mulled wine - Tesco Mulled Wine, £3.50
- Bucks Fizz - Tesco Bucks Fizz, £2
- Bottle of bubbly - Aldi Castellore Prosecco Frizzante DOC, £4.99
- Christmas crackers - The Works Kids Mini Christmas Crackers, Pack Of 6, £1
- Table cloth - Wilko Silver Wipeable Christmas Tablecloth, £1.50
- Party poppers - Tesco 20 Party Poppers, £2


The total amount of hit points of the structure.
A unique object identifier. You can use Game.getObjectById method to retrieve an object instance by its id.
An object representing the position of this object in the room.
If you can get an instance of a Structure, you can see it. If you can see the Structure, you can see the room it's in.
One of the STRUCTURE_* constants.
Destroy this structure immediately.
Check whether this structure can be used. If the room controller level is not enough, then this method will return false, and the structure will be highlighted with red in the game.
Toggle auto notification when the structure is under attack. The notification will be sent to your account email. Turned on by default.
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- Lifetime: 112 to 97 million years ago (Cretaceous Period)
- Size: 12.6 - 18 meters [Length], 3.5 - 5 meters [Height]
- Weight: 7 - 20.9 tonnes
- Originally found via Egyptian remains which were destroyed in WWII
- The spines on its back are extensions of its vertebrae
- The spines could grow to be over 5 feet long and formed a sail-like structure
- Believed to have lived in both land and water like a modern crocodile
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Stegosaurus |
- Lifetime: 155 to 150 million years ago (Late Jurassic Period)
- Size: 7.5 - 9 meters [Length], 3 - 4 meters [Height]
- Weight: 2 - 3 tonnes
- The hard spikes on their back were used as defense against predators
- It's believed that the spikes could have also had a thermoregulatory function
- They had an exceptionally low brain-to-body mass ratio
- The name "Stegosaurus" means "roof lizard"
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Triceratops |
- Lifetime: Roughly 68 million years ago (Cretaceous Period)
- Size: 7.9 - 9 meters [Length], 2.9 - 3 meters [Height]
- Weight: 6.1 - 12 tonnes
- While its horns were thought to be used defensively, they were also thought
to be used for identification, courtship, and dominance displays
- While it's thought that the Tyrannosaurus preyed on Triceratops, their
battles most likely did not occur as displayed in popular media
- The name "Triceratops" means "three-horned face"
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Ok guys! This are the main ideas in order to help you customize this file.
Backgrounds can be changed from within the site. They're XML driven and at the moment they're 4. The XML file related to the backgrounds is backgrounds.xml The pictures with the backgrounds can be found inside the backgrounds directory from within the root directory.
Want to change the background music? It's easy! The background music is externally loaded and can be found inside the root directory under the name of music.mp3 Prepare your new song, name it music.mp3 and overwrite mine with yours. Flash will do the rest ;) It loops 100 times.
Go to the mcTween directory and double click the installer. Folow the steps and there you go!
Because of the paths. There are 2 paths that you need to modify in order for this to work standalone. The path to the XML file(line 30 in portfolio case) and the paths to the pictures inside the XML file.
The main idea is that this template loads external swf files. To help you out, I created some modules for you guys. But you can add anything you want. The external swf files dimensions has to be 700x400 (that's ideal). Try not to exceed that 400 height.
Also, everytime you add new swf's inside the swf directory, or into the root directory, try not to forget to make changes also inside the items.xml - that will tell flash what to open when you press the menu buttons. Again, the main procedure in adding portfolio items or texts or anything else, is duplicating. Duplicating means small changes in every file:- you'll tell xml what images to open and from where
- then you'll tell to the fla file what xml to open
- then you'll tell to the menu what swf to open when pressed
Once you get these steps, everything will be clear and simple. As everything is XML driven, you will have to modify xml files in order to add your own content. Every xml is named as the swf file so it should be easy to find and edit them.Are awaited at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Thanks for buying my stuff guys!


Education
Your School Name
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science ● August 2014 – May 2018
Work Experience
Software Research Intern
Your School Name ● June 2014 – August 2014
Describe your job duties here.
Projects
Personal Website
Developer, Writer, Administrator ● June 2018 – Present
Describe your project here.
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Languages:
- Python
- CSS
- C++
- MATLAB
- Java
- HTML
- MIPS
- R
Operating Systems:
- macOS
- Linux
- Windows
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- Amazon Web Services
- Bash Scripting
- GNU Make
- JDBC
- Visio
- Django
- Git
- Java Message Service
- Bootstrap
- Sublime Text
Databases:
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- MySQL


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Next you will find the table of contents. To jump to a section, click on the particular header.
The scope of this project is to drill down the terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2015
The primary objectives are
The idea behind the project is to find out how the terrorism has developed in the Western world and whether we need to build tall walls to protect ourself against future threats. We chose our topic to be more global oriented, because
More general information about the project you find in the video below.
SocialData2017 from polakowo on Vimeo.
The dataset is very comprehensive and contains a lot of terrorism-related information. We downloaded the entire dataset Global Terrorism Database, available from Gtd Homepage. It contains 156,772 terrorist attacks x 137 features, and takes 142.3 MB of disk space. It's worth to mention that it is almost completely encoded (strings/long numbers to short numbers). To decode the dataset we looked at the codebook available here. After exploring the codebook we discovered some columns to be redundant, or not relevant, which we removed. See the corresponding notebook Cleaning Data for further details on how we approached.
We ended up working on 23 columns, which contain the quantitative as well as the qualitative information of the main interest. After decoding, cleaning, filtering, and encoding steps, we've got 156,772 rows x 23 columns, or equivalently 26.8 MB of disk space
You can download the cleaned dataset from this link to try it out by yourself!
Below you find some basic information on columns we used in charts.
The first table contains numeric data:
| Column name | Type | Min | Max | NaN | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
year
|
int | 1970 | 2015 | None | Year |
nkilled
|
int | 0 | 1500 | None | Total Number of Fatalities |
nkilledter
|
int | 0 | 500 | None | Number of Perpetrator Fatalities |
nwounded
|
int | 0 | 5500 | None | Total Number of Injured |
nwoundedter
|
int | 0 | 200 | None | Number of Perpetrators Injured |
lat
|
float | -53.1546 | 74.6336 | None | Latitude (of city) |
lon
|
float | -176.176 | 179.367 | None | Longitude (of city) |
The second table contains categorical data:
| Column name | Unique | Top | NaN | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
region
|
12 | Middle East & North Africa | None | Region |
country
|
204 | Iraq | None | Country |
weapontype
|
12 | Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite | 7.59% | Weapon Type |
attacktype
|
9 | Bombing/Explosion | 3.38% | Attack Type |
targettype
|
22 | Private Citizens & Property | 2.46% | Target/Victim Type |
gname
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3216 | Unknown | 46.41% | Perpetrator Group Name |
Hint: Every categorical feature is encoded with integers to save a lot of space. Therefore, we introduce a global JSON dict called strings.json
containing a map of all integers to their corresponding strings. The decoding process takes place after the data has been successfully loaded to the front end, so none of the charts must take care of it.
You may already noticed that the amount of columns is less than 23. We limited the amount of information to be able to deliver the information quickly and make charts to be more responsive (= less laggy). Below you find optional columns we skipped.
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state
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Province / Administrative Region / State |
city
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City |
extended
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Extended Incident? |
multiple
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Part of Multiple Incident? |
success
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Successful Attack? |
suicide
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Suicide Attack? |
nter
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Number of Perpetrators |
claimed
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Claim of Responsibility? |
property
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Property Damage |
propertyextent
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Extent of Property Damage |
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Charts are vital in presentation of data. They are used in both exploratory and descriptive analysis. As the most aggregations are time-intensive, we outsource them to the back end. We perform every major task in two steps:
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to process the data, e.g., apply filters, perform aggregations, etc.d3.js
that facilitates generation and manipulation of web documents with data, for construction of beautiful interactive data visualizations.This histogram aims at exploration of temporal patterns of terrorism from 1970 through 2015
The main question we address is
How has the terrorism developed over time from the perspective of geographical units, types or terrorist groups?
We're interested in the temporal aspect of terrorist development, which touches many interesting attributes:
We implemented the following cool features:
The second chart is a scatterplot, which encodes 3 numeric attributes
The main question we address is
What arein the selected geographical unit?
- the most lethal weapon types,
- the most effective attack types, and
- the most vulnerable target types
We implemented the following cool features:
The scatterplot above has one big issue: we can display up to ~30 circles before we run out of space. But what if we'd love to compare countries? Even on a rectangular map with Mercador projection we need some kind of zoom. To tackle the problem we decided on another, more difficult, but also interesting solution: map countries on a virtual globe and let the user rotate it!
The main question we address is
How do the countries compare with each other in terms of terrorism?
We implemented the following cool features:
K-Means is the first algorithm in pattern recognition we'll use for analysis. Using K-Means, we can partition terrorist attacks into groups (at least it's an idea) to see how the terrorism is distributed geographically.
The main question we address is
Do the terrorist attacks form some geographical groups? Are there some visual patterns to find?
We implemented the following cool features:
The second pattern recognition algorithm is k-Nearest Neighbors, which is a classification and regression algorithm. Using kNN we are able to classify any point on the globe based on its (k-) neighbors.
The main question we address is
What if we knew that a terrorist attack is going to happen somewhere on the globe, what type will it likely be?
We implemented the following cool features:
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Requirements Engineering
Table of Contents
1 About This Sprint
This sprint briefly introduces the topic requirements engineering.
For more information on this topic, see e.g. the course PA2551 Kravhantering och Produkthantering
.
2 User Stories covered in this Sprint
- As a requirements engineer I want to know who may have requirements on the system we are building so that I can make sure that all needs are met.
- As a requirements engineer I want to have a range of methods for finding requirements so that I can choose the best method for each person or source of requirements.
- As a requirements engineer I want to document the found requirements so that I can discuss them with the customer.
- As a requirements engineer I want to document the found requirements so that I can communicate them to the developers.
- As a project manager I need to decide what to focus on building right now so that I best satisfy all customers’ expectations.
3 Introduction
Before you start designing your system, you need to find out what to design and build. There are of course different ways of doing this. The traditional way advocates that you need to fully understand the entire system before you go ahead with the design (cf. waterfall development), whereas at the other end the agile approach (e.g. as advocated by eXtreme Programming and the Agile Manifesto) is that you should only do as much requirements engineering up front as is necessary to understand how to start building, since the requirements are going to change anyway. Note that they do not say “Don’t do it!”; they say “Do as little as possible, but not less”.
It is thus important to decide early how much requirements engineering you should do before you start with the project. Incidentally, there is a difference between the traditional, so called bespoke requirements engineering where you start a project when a customer knocks on the door and then you do requirements engineering as part of that project, and the continuous requirements engineering where you always do requirements engineering and spawn new development projects as a result of the requirements engineering process. The latter suits the type of products that you develop and sell to more than one customer, while the former is more suitable for one-off projects. For this course, I would suggest a pragmatic approach (akin to the agile way): Do as much requirements engineering so that you have a rough overview of what the system should do, and do proper requirements engineering on what you need to know do make a Minimum Viable Product.
There are many sources and techniques for doing requirements elicitation (i.e., finding the requirements), from reading the old documentation, analysing competitor’s products, interviewing users, running surveys among user groups, or simply inventing the requirements yourself. If you do requirements engineering you will be using a mixture of these. Typically, you will start by doing an unstructured interview with a manager to get a broad overview of what they want the system to do. You will then try to define end user groups and find a couple of representative persons from each user group and conduct further interviews with them. At first, these interviews will be exploratory and unstructured, but will pretty soon become semi-structured as you learn about the major features of the system, so that you will be getting further details about each of these major features.
Finding out who may have an interest in the system (a stakeholder) is so important that I have even added a separate user story for it in this sprint. This is not limited to end-users. Other stakeholders may include (but is not limited to): the organisation that is going to maintain and continue development of the system, system service technicians that will be doing backups and adding users and other running maintenance, external parties that you may connect to (for example banks to deal with payments), legal texts (that’s right: a text can be a stakeholder), other departments in the organisation you build for that require your system to jack in with their processes, and so on.
Figure 1: Requirements Engineering Overview (Simplified)
3.1 Interviews
I’ve already touched upon elicitation techniques. The one you are likely to use the most is Interviews. “Interview” is actually a cover-all phrase that encompasses a whole range of different techniques that involves two people or more with (at least) voice contact. You may thus do interviews over phone, but I would not recommend it since you loose a lot of nuances that can be learnt by observing body language. Video conference or face-to-face meetings IRL are the most common interview settings. You can be one person interviewing one other person, or there can be more people either doing the interview or being interviewed (although at some point it is perhaps better to run the meeting as a focus group).
In its most simple form, you conduct the interview as an open interview with open answers. In this setting, you basically just talk, and together explore what the application should do. You rarely have the luxury to be this unstructured, even in the first interview. I would recommend you to do as much homework as possible beforehand so that you have at least a small set of starting questions that you can use to get the interview going and to get back on track when you feel that you have diverged too far from the interview goals. Having a set of questions moves the interview into a semi-structured format, where you are able to follow up on the answers given with further impromptu questions. The extreme is a structured interview where you have a specific set of questions that you want answered in a particular order without room for any further probing. This is typically only used in research contexts.
Similarly, you can allow open answers, typically early on when you want to explore and look for new information, or you can restrict the answers to a closed answer space, where each question can e.g. be answered with one of four alternatives. This is good for confirming what you have previously learnt; you can collect answers from larger groups of people and quickly analyse them, and the idea is that at that stage you should not expect to find any new information.
Thus, a requirements engineer will probably use semi-structured open answered interviews. In this course, however, this will not be the case as it would be out of scope for the course. You will instead have to create the requirements yourself (more on this under the Experiential Learning in this sprint).
How you behave during an interview influences the results, because your behaviour can make the interview subjects more or less prone to answer your questions. In Table 1 I have compiled a list of do’s and don’ts in interview situations (we have actually used this list to assess requirements elicitation interviews in the requirements engineering courses at BTH).
| Do | Don’t |
|---|---|
| Do prepare thoroughly for the meeting | Don’t put your laptop on the table as a wall between you and your client |
| Do prepare a checklist for the meeting | Don’t keep your cap on your head |
| Do introduce yourself properly | Don’t interrupt the customer |
| Do ask about access to stakeholders | Don’t interrupt each other |
| Do ask about access to previous systems | Don’t take no notes |
| Do book the next meeting | Don’t record the interview without asking |
| Do ask about quality requirements | Don’t assume stuff |
| Do make sure you know who you are talking to, and why | Don’t provide requirements |
| Do ask about deadlines | Don’t provide goldplating |
| Don’t technobabble | |
| Don’t sit quiet | |
| Don’t kiss up (too much) | |
| Don’t follow your meeting checklist manically | |
| Don’t share war-stories about other customers and systems | |
| Don’t ask about the budget at the first meeting | |
| Don’t argue among yourselves |
3.2 Specification
Once you have found the requirements, your next step (after analysing them and negotiating them with the customer, but that is also outside the scope of this course) is to Specify the requirements. There is an IEEE standard, IEEE 830, for how to structure your requirements document, assuming you specify requirements in the traditional way. The good thing about this is that it has existed for many years, and people are used to seeing it and signing contract based on it. The bad thing about it is that it is not as well known or easy to understand as requirements engineering researchers would like to think it is, and with a few minutes of education I am certain that you will be able to educate your customers on any document and requirements format you choose.
IEEE 830 Standard for Software Requirements Specifications
- Introduction
- Purpose of the Requirements Document
- Scope of the Product
- Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
- References
- Overview of the Remainder of the Document
- General Description
- Product Perspective
- Product Functions
- User Characteristics
- General Constraints
- Assumptions and Dependencies
- Specific Requirements Functional, non-functional, and interface requirements
- Appendices
- Index
To simplify, there are two plus one ways of writing requirements. The two ways are traditional requirements and user stories. The plus one way is UML use cases. UML:ists themselves claim that use cases are not requirments, they are merely scenarios where one or several requirements are “exercised”. I would rather avoid re-formatting the requirements once more and just add more documentation that will only be used once, so I would try very hard to get away with only documenting the requirements within the context of a use case if I must use them.
Figure 2: Two plus one way of specifying requirements
Traditional requirements may be specified as figures, tables, sketches, or plaintext, with the plaintext version being the one most commonly discussed. They usually follow a standardised format with a number of attributes per requirement (title, description, source, date, etc.), and a standardised template for the actual requirement. User Stories are supposed to be less documentation so they try to include the most relevant of all of this information into a single one-liner. Shorter iterations, a more direct path from inception to implementation, and closer collaboration with the customer makes it easier to do away with a lot of the information considered necessary in traditional requirements.
User stories are intended to be kept simple while still covering the most important information. They are often written according to a standard template: As a <type of user> I want <some goal> so that <some reason>.
With this template, we get the most important information, namely what you want the system to do (“some goal”), who“ wants it (”type of user“) so that you can go back and get more information, and put the requirement into context of what else this type of user wants with the system, and a /motivation for the requirement (“some reason”), so that you can better understand exactly what the user desires to do and why. This will help you make reasonable assumptions about how to implement the requirement.
UML use cases are covered in a different course sprint, so I will only briefly mention them here. With a use case, you are attempting to put the requirements into a context. Of course, this means that you need to write more, since you also need to add information about the context. This is one of the reasons why they are not considered requirements – they are simply too verbose. This verbosity also means that a developer is unlikely to do use cases for every requirement and every part of the system; but will rather do them for those parts of the system where there is a usage flow that is difficult to grasp in one sentence, and where you are likely to hold a “conversation” with the system to fulfill a higher need. For example, searching for a hotel room is a one-liner. Booking a room on the other hand may involve
- a search
- a narrowing of the results to specific types of rooms
- a check whether the room is available
- a selection of the room
- input of information about the person booking the room, and
- a confirmation that the room is booked.
Each of these items may, in turn, comprise more than several requirements, including at least one requirement that restricts the order in which these actions must be performed.
3.3 Prioritisation
So, which requirement should you focus on developing first?
In traditional requirements engineering, there is a whole phase solely dedicated to requirements prioritisation. Agile software development methodologies (such as Scrum) also assumes that you always have your user stories prioritised in your backlog. Essentially, you are doing insertion sort whenever you add a new user story, while also checking that the priority of the existing items do not change as a result of adding the new user story. Each sprint begins with a review of the backlog, before you select among the top prioritised user stories which you should develop in the sprint. If the user story is really big (called an epic), one of the actions you may do is to break it down into more manageable user stories and put these into the backlog.
This, of course, does not answer the question since it only explains how you decide, but not on what grounds. Also here, you can probably build a research career on deciding which factors should influence your prioritisation (see, for example, Ruhe and Saliu’s paper “The art and Science of Release Planning” 1), but a few good starting points are:
- Value for the customer
- Cost of implementation (Cost and Value can be nicely combined as e.g. Karlsson and Ryan 2 shows).
- Penalty for not implementing
UML/RUP would advocate that you wait with prioritising your requirements and instead prioritise the UML use cases, so that you deliver the most important features first. This does not mean that you need to implement the full flow of events in one go; always keep the Minimum Viable Product in mind.
Epics are bigger user stories, but not necessarily more important.
For example, the epic “As a manager I want us to support Chinese characters so we can enter the chinese market” is really big, but maybe not very important. Conversely, the user story “As a user I want to be able to abort a transaction so that I am able to change my mind at any time” is much smaller, and way more important.
3.4 Summary
Requirements Engineering is a big topic, and can be quite complex. The introduction above is just meant to get you started. I have, for example, only touched upon the difference between bespoke and market-driven requirements engineering. I have not mentioned any of the challenges involved when you do large scale requirements engineering or very large scale requirements engineering. Nor have I gone through all the different techniques available for eliciting requirements, checklists for analysis, requirements verification, etc. etc. You will get some more information about some of these things in the screencast “Requirements Engineering”, and for the rest I direct you towards one of the requirements engineering courses offered at BTH.
I include some of the UML Use Case learning material in this sprint which will give you a head start for the next sprint, but the focus on what you are expected to do is “traditional” requirements engineering.
A note also about elicitation techniques: I say earlier that you are most likely going to use interviews. Well… In this course that’s not quite true. In this course you are going to create the requirements yourself, based on a brief system description.
4 Learning Material
4.1 Book Chapters
- C. Larman, Applying UML and Patterns, 3rd Edition, Chapters:
- Inception is Not the Requirements Phase
- Evolutionary Requirements
- Use Cases
- Other Requirements
4.2 Screencasts
5 Experiential Learning
5.1 Sprint Test Plan
Go through the user stories for this sprint and make sure you have a clear understanding of how to solve each of them.
Revisit and update your risks and contingencies section.
Add and/or revise the following items to your glossary:
- Requirements Engineering
- Requirements Elicitation
- Stakeholders
- Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
- RFC 2119
- Requirements Prioritisation
- Quality Attribute (Also: Non-functional Requirement)
- User Story
- Epic
- Backlog
- Acceptance Test
- Use Case
Make sure you understand what each item is, the notation for them, and how to use them either in isolation or together with the other concepts.
5.2 Self-Study: Requirements Interview
Let’s say you are going to build a student simulator. As a part of this you need to find out the morning practices of a typical student.
Interiew a couple of student colleagues on what they do in the mornings. Try to plan beforehand, and have your colleague assess what you do good and what you can improve during the interview.
5.3 Self-Study: Requirements Specification
Try to write down a common process for what you elicited above, i.e. the “getting up, getting ready, and getting to uni in the morning”-process.
Express this process as:
- regular requirements (consider their apartment, their mother, the bus, etc. as part of “the system”)
- user stories (think about the role they have for each part, and the motivation for why they want something done)
- use cases (consider their apartment, their mother, the bus, etc. as part of “the system”)
5.4 Update Course Backlog
How do you translate your user stories into UML use cases? How do you use the prioritised order to decide on a development schedule? Why are you specifying your requirements first as user stories if you are then going to re-specify them as UML use cases immediately afterwards?
What other means are there for eliciting requirements? How may you gain experience in using them?
Are there any other questions that you want answered? Add them, along with a brief strategy for how to find an answer.
6 Sprint Acceptance Tests
You are done with this sprint when:
- You have read the Learning Materials.
You may also have
- Updated your Sprint Test Plan
- Updated your Course Backlog
- Performed self-study requirements interviews
- Documented the results from the self-study interviews in different formats.


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The second phone call was worse, not because it was muddle-headed but because it was directly to the point.
"Forest? John Warden here."
"Hello, Warden. How are things over in Thought Control?"
"You're a funny man, Forest, that's why we're going to put you in jail last."
"Well, I appreciate that, Warden. Congress still gutting your budget?"
"Oh no," he laughed. "We're not the FCC anymore -- don't you remember? Our department reports to the NSA now."
"Ah yes, the National Insecurity Agency. So, what can I do for you today?"
"Well, it's this pornography thing."
My stomach sank. "What about it?"
"I'm just surprised it's still available to the public."
"Why is that, Warden? Is the Internet broken?"
"Not yet. What I mean is, why is your corporation abetting the dissemination of pornography?"
"That would be a serious violation of existing U.S. statutes if it were true."
"Yes, my thoughts exactly."
We paused for a few seconds.
"So," I finally ventured, "are you saying that you're going to issue a 59B?" This is shorthand reference to a stack of legislation that empowers the NSA to fine an individual or corporation for a number of telecomm violations.
He sighed. "No. Not at this time. Not sure the courts would go for it."
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"Yes."
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"Our tax dollars hard at work."
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I looked at Londo sitting by the keyboard.
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