A seat articulation mechanism including a seat pan member that travels along a pathway defined in a seat articulation linkage as the entire mechanism translates between an upright and sleeping configuration through a lounge configuration. The instrument includes a first electrical insulation layer disposed on at least part of the outer surface of the hollow tubular member, a first electrode disposed on an outer surface of the first electrical insulation layer, and a second electrode disposed on the outer surface of the first electrical insulation layer. The strategy engine then instructs a component of an equipment engineering system to perform an action included in a rule that corresponds to the end-of-line yield prediction. The second-harmonic generator element includes a second-harmonic generator layer in a material having a non-null second-order optical tensor. The second material fills the another distal end of the column and gradiently decreases towards the distal end of the column within the first material. The soft-start circuit outputs, as the soft-start voltage Vss, a voltage that occurs at the capacitor.