Industry Links

EVENTS

Reliable Plant 2009
Columbus, Ohio
September 1-3, 2009
conference.reliableplant.com


GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

American National Standards Institute
www.ansi.org

Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov

Occupational Safety & Health Administration
www.osha.gov

Reliability Information Analysis Center
www.theRIAC.org

United States Department of Energy, Office of Industrial Technologies
www.oit.doe.gov/bestpractices/

United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov


INFORMATION PORTALS

Feed Forward Publications
Maintenance, Engineering and Management Training CDs and Publications.
www.feedforward.com.au

Maintenance World
www.maintenanceworld.com

Plant Maintenance Resource Center
www.plant-maintenance.com

Superfactory
www.superfactory.com

Weibull.com
Free resources include online textbooks, reliability software and tools, and, discussion forums.
www.weibull.com


LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

AFL-CIO
www.aflcio.org

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
www.iamaw.org

International Brotherhood of Teamsters
www.teamsters.org


MAINTENANCE & RELIABILITY CONSULTANTS

Enrique Mora
www.tpmonline.com
www.papakaizen.com

IDCON Inc.
Since 1972, has provided consulting services to companies in 43 counties.
www.idcon.com

Life Cycle Engineering
LCE, founded in 1976, specializes in reliability and maintenance solutions with focus in both industrial and government markets.
www.lce.com

PdMA Corporation
Provides the equipment, services and training to support electric motor reliability.
www.pdma.com

Reliability Center Inc.
Reliability consulting services, training programs, software products and resources.
www.reliability.com

Snell Infrared
www.snellinfrared.com

Strategic Work Systems
www.swspitcrew.com

TPS – ThroughPut Solutions
TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) training and implementation services
www.tpslean.com


MANUFACTURING SITES

ARC Advisory Group
www.arcweb.com

Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence
www.bmpcoe.org

International Organization for Standardization
www.iso.org

Lean Enterprise Institute
www.lean.org

Manufacturing Skill Standards Council
www.msscusa.org

National Manufacturing Week
www.manufacturingweek.com

Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing
www.shingoprize.org


MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE

Infor
www.infor.com

ReliaSoft
www.reliasoft.com


NORIA AND NORIA PRODUCTS

Noria Corporation
www.noria.com

Machinery Lubrication Magazine
www.machinerylubrication.com

Practicing Oil Analysis
www.practicingoilanalysis.com


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Production and Inventory Control Society
www.apics.org

American Productivity and Quality Center
www.apqc.org

American Society for Quality
www.asq.org

American Society for Testing and Materials
www.astm.org

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
www.asme.org

American Society of Safety Engineers
www.asse.org

Association for Facilities Engineering
www.afe.org

Association for Manufacturing Excellence
www.ame.org

Canadian Machinery Vibration Institute
www.cmva.com

Institute for Supply Management
www.ism.ws

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
www.ieee.org

Institute of Industrial Engineers
www.iie.org

Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society
www.isa.org

International Council for Machinery Lubrication
www.lubecouncil.org

International Institute of Plant Facilities Engineering
www.ipfe.org

International Society of Six Sigma Professionals
www.isssp.com

Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia
www.mesa.org.au

National Association of Manufacturers
www.nam.org

Plant Engineering & Maintenance Association of Canada
www.nsc.org

National Safety Council
www.pemac.org

Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology
www.mfpt.org

Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
www.smrp.org

Society of Manufacturing Engineers
www.sme.org

Society of Reliability Engineers
www.sre.org

Society of Tribologists & Lubrication Engineers
www.stle.org

Society of Women Engineers
www.societyofwomenengineers.org

Vibration Institute
www.vib-inst.org


SUPPLIERS

Parker Hannifin
Diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies. Provides systematic, precision-engineered solutions for a variety of markets.
www.parker.com

Parker Hannifin inPHorm
Product selection software that helps you choose the correct Parker part for your application.
www.parker.com/inphorminfo


TECHNICAL SKILLS TRAINING

MPACT Learning Center
www.mpactlearning.com


UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH SITES

Milwaukee School of Engineering Business Excellence Consortium
www.bec.msoe.org

Monash University Centre for Machine Condition Monitoring
www.monash.edu.au/cmcm

Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Multidisciplinary Studies
www.rit.edu/~801www/reliability.html

University of Maryland National Information Center for Reliability Engineering
www.enre.umd.edu

University of North Texas Center for Collaborative Organizations
www.workteams.unt.edu

University of Tennessee Maintenance and Reliability Center
www.engr.utk.edu/mrc/