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Industry Directories, Portals & Search Engines

Analysts, Inc.: The acknowledged leader in oil analysis services and predictive maintenance since 1960.

AskaChE: The Ultimate Help Desk for Engineers.

Business Industrial Network: eliminates unnecessary equipment downtime by providing online engineering and maintenance technical support. Submit a question and it will page an engineer for immediate response by a human.

CEO Express: Many times referred to as an Executives Desktop. One of the most comprehensive and navigable sites in existence. Contains just about every resource needed to conduct your everyday business.

Chemical Industry Supplier Registry: Manual compilation of chemical suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers for price and capacity of commodity and specialty chemicals by name or CAS registry number. Site includes free magazines, jobs, news and events.

Chemindustry: is the leading comprehensive category search engine
for chemical and allied industry professionals.

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CMMSCity.com: offers Maintenance Information Management Focus. CmmsCity was started to provide focused resources for those interested in managing maintenance information systems such as CMMS or EAM.

e-Construct.net: Tools and Equipment Resources. Directory of Tools and Equipment related websites.

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library: The UK gateway to engineering resources on the internet.

FMEA Information Centre: is a WWW information library dedicated to FMEA (Failure Modes & Effects Analysis.)

Freightage.com: Search the Leading Transportation & Logistics Directory

Hazardous Area Direct: One-Stop-Shop for the Hazardous Area Certified Instrument marketplace.

InterEC.NET: is a non profit job search website for engineers and scientists. This website features a jobs database, a resume database, a company database, and a discussion board that that can be used by both jobseekers and employers.

LeakZone.com: is a great resources for anything related to industrial plant leak detection with a focus on compressed air and steam systems

LogisticsWorld: is a directory of logistics resources on the internet.

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MaintenanceBenchmarking.com: offers dozens of public best practices surveys as well as private or branded surveys as well as reports and analysis from past surveys.

MaintenanceResources.com: Plant Engineering, Maintenance and Reliability Resource Site

MaintenanceTalk.com: Engineering Blog Site

Mid-Atlantic Manufacturing Resources: providing valuable information and
resources for the manufacturing industry in the Mid-Atlantic region and
beyond.

Mining Technology: The web site for the mining, tunnelling and quarrying industries.

Motor Diagnostics: a site with the purpose to provide an unbiased view of motor diagnostic technologies, troubleshooting, resources and more.

NetexpressUSA.com: Each month, NetexpressUSA features seven value-added promotional programs that provide immediate benefit to over 25,000 industrial plant maintenance personnel.

Performance Evaluation, Inc.: This company offers high frequency testing of AC/DC motors, cables & transformers. This site provides motor, cable and transformer information for elevators, buildings, & air conditioning.

Pharmaceutical Industry Association of Puerto Rico: gathers and represents research-based multinational pharmaceutical companies with operations in Puerto Rico.

Plant-Maintenance.com: The Plant Maintenance Resource Center is the premier web resource for Maintenance professionals.

Power Sourcing: The Industrial Resource Network.

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Pulp & Paper.Net: An Easier Way to Get More Information in Less Time.

Quality Coach: Our bookstore specializes in Quality & Productivity Improvements.

Radwaste.org: Find links to specialized software and databases of interest to nuclear, radwaste and radiation professionals, as well as general interest software, and software development companies. URL: www.radwaste.org

Reliabilityweb.com: the Solution Oriented Asset Reliability web site for the industrial plant maintenance community with free online training, white papers, ask an expert service and a comprehensive directory of products and services.

SAPCenter.com: offers support for SAP Users with a special focus on Plant Maintenance.

Sens2B International Sensors & Business « à la carte »: The international sensors portal. Find international sensor manufacturers, suppliers and sensor market news in all industry sectors. Now with the specific extension AutomotiveSens for automotive sensors.

Thomas Industrial Network: the most comprehensive resource for industrial information. Go straight to the source of product, company information, CAD drawings and more.

VibrationSchool.com: offers free vibration analysis training online you can access on your personal computer.

Trade Magazines, Newsletters, Books & Journals

AFE Facilities Engineering Journal: Technical Resources for Today's Engineering Professionals

Aircraft Maintenance Technology Magazine: The Source for information for aircraft maintenance professionals.

ASQ: Quality Progress Magazine

Automotive Engineering International Magazine:

Book - Inviting Disaster: This book offers a thorough examination of industrial failure and its causes. A look into some of technology's most miserable moments.

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Chemical Engineering Magazine:

IMPO: Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation Magazine

Industry Week:

Machinery Lubrication: Machinery Lubrication provides timely, high quality information about proper lubrication for those responsible for machine and fleet uptime. A Noria Publication.

Maintenance Technology Magazine:

MRO Today: is an award-winning, bi-monthly publication that goes to more than 140,000 maintenance, engineering, production, quality, purchasing and safety professionals at industrial facilities across the United States.

Nuclear Plant Journal:

Oil & Gas Journal: International Petroleum News and Technology.

Pharmaceutical Engineering Magazine:

Plant Services Magazine:

ReliablePlant Magazine: Reliable Plant’s editorial content focuses on ways that you can increase uptime and OEE, reduce waste and inefficiency through the use of lean and related techniques, increase organizational and planning skills, promote empowerment and cross-functional cooperation, and increase reliability’s role and importance in your plant and corporate structure.

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Associations & Societies

AFE: Association for Facilities Engineering

AFE St. Louis: Association for Facilities Engineering - St. Louis Chapter

AICHE: American Institute of Chemical Engineers

AIST: Association of Iron and Steel Engineers

ASM: The Materials Information Society

ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASNT: American Society for Nondestructive Testing

ASQ: American Society for Quality

ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials

CIAPR: Association of Engineers and Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico are a quasi-public non-profit organization created in 1938 to group the professionals with the right to practice engineering and land surveying in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Click Here to view their newsletter.

CPBIS: Center for Paper and Business Industries Studies

IMI: International Maintenance Institute - Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter

MFPT: Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology

NPRA: National Petrochemical and Refiners Association

NTSB: National Transportation Safety Board

PIA: Pharmauceutical Industry Association

PIMA: Paper Industry & Management Association

PRMA: Puerto Rico Manufacturing Association

SMRP: Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals

TAPPI: Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry

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Analysis & Testing Laboratories

Aliya Analytical - Materials Engineering Consulting, Failure Analysis, Troubleshooting:
Debbie Aliya
3716 Eastern SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49508
Phone: 616-452-1929 Fax: 616-452-1736 Email: DaAliya@aol.com

Analysts, Inc.: The Acknowledged Leader in Oil and Fluids Analysis Since 1960

CAS Chem Laboratories Incorporated: provides Industrial Testing, Environmental Testing, Transformer Fluid Analysis and Home Testing.

ExPonent - Failure Analysis Associates: Exponent is the nation's leading engineering and scientific consulting firm that is dedicated to helping our clients solve their technical problems.

IMR Test Labs: A Division of Ithaca Materials Research & Testing Incorporated.

Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc.: Infrared Thermography, Finite Element Analysis, Process Engineering.

Matco Associates, Inc.: providing product research and failure analysis consultation, particularly for corrosion investigations and industrial machinery failures. They perform mechanical testing, stress analysis, material identification and other common laboratory tests.

O'Donnell Consulting Engineers, Inc.: has earned a world-class reputation for engineering design and analysis excellence.

Stockton Infrared Thermographic Services: Excellence in Infrared Thermography.

Tandex Test Labs, Inc.: high reliability space application testing services.

Washington Laboratories Ltd.: Engineering, Testing & Consulting.

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Consultants & Vendors

Adams Six Sigma: Specialist in six sigma, total quality management, strategic planning, goal setting, team building, employee motivation, and statistical process control.

Cryosonic Dry Ice Blasting Service: Cryosonic specializes in dry ice blasting service for industrial and commercial cleaning applications serving the North East USA and Eastern Canada regions.

Equipment Reliability: a site to visit for information and assistance concerning reliability and durability of your equipment.

FLIR Infrared Cameras: is the world leader in infrared cameras, thermography equipment, infrared software and IR training and support. FLIR infrared cameras are essential tools used for a variety of applications, including predictive maintenance, R&D/testing, automation/OEM and non-destructive testing.

The Geaslin Group: Operations & Maintenance Analysts & Corporate Memory

G. E. Analytical Instruments: is the world's leading manufacturer of instruments used to measure total organic carbon (TOC) in water. In addition, they offer advanced total carbon analyzers, boron analyzers, sulfur and nitrogen chemiluminescence detectors, nitric oxide analyzers, oil on water monitoring systems, and certified reference materials.

Interplan Systems, Inc.: eTaskMaker™ estimating and ATC Professional™ management solutions for projects and turnarounds.

Lubrication Systems Company: Leader in the design, supply, installation and maintenance of centralized lubrication and oil purification systems and technologies.

Manufacturing Game®: The Manufacturing Game® experience provokes participants into exploring their mental models and thinking systemically; it encourages collaboration through team learning and enhances communication.

NDT Consulting Group, Inc.: Providing NDT Level III Services to Clients Worldwide.

New Standard Institute: provides maintenance management consulting and technical training services to industrial clients.

Oceana Sensor: manufacturer of OEM accelerometers and wireless data acquisition systems

Practical Reliability Group: works with asset intensive companies in the area of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Asset Performance Management (APM). They offer training and consulting to help client companies develop work processes and code content to effectively document SAP-PM maintenance events. They are certified Manufacturing Game® facilitators.

Quality Systems Inc.: Quality Systems Incorporated provides business management consulting specifically for the asset and maintenance management of capital assets. QSI designs and implements methodologies and technologies to optimize asset performance within process driven industries.

R.A. Denton: Recognized leader in design and manufacture of safety testing instrumentation components.

RDMI Maintenance Solutions, Inc.: offering Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) solutions to manufacturing, service and government agencies

RSG Technologies: Offering dry ice blasting equipment from Icesonic; Industrial cleaning technology that supports cleaning in place (CIP), minimizing waste disposal and reducing equipment downtime.

Sach, Salvaterra and Associates: metallurgical analysis and many other engineering related services

Six Sigma: Six Sigma training and lean process improvement resources for all organizations.

SixSigmaOnline.org: Self-paced web-based classes that allow for a much more in-depth coverage of the topics as opposed to public courses, while at a fraction of the cost of on-site training.

Swagelok: a global manufacturing corporation that delivers thousands of types of fluid system components through a network of more than 200 independent sales and service centers on six continents.

The Knowledge Management Group: Six Sigma Consulting -- The Knowledge Management Group is the leading provider in business solutions designed to improve your organization.

Thermal Vision Thermography Service: based in Ireland offering superior quality surveys achieved with cutting edge technology. Superior reports are produced to cutstomers specification and can be delivered worldwide.

Update International: Three decades of world leadership in training and support of Proactive Machinery Improvement®

UNICCO Service Company: one of North America's leading facilities services companies with over $650 million an annual facilities maintenance revenues and a 95% customer retention rate. UNICCO's advanced facilities technologies include its myUNICCO.com enterprise customer portal, UNI-Q® palmtop inspection system, best-of-breed computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), eProcurement, and 24x7x365 national call center.

Uniworld Consulting Group: is a leading provider of deployment, training, and consulting services for Six Sigma. Uniworld Consulting provides the broadest range of Six Sigma services to provide customized implementation plans for each client.

VibrAlign, Inc.: is the United States distributor of the Fixturlaser Laser Shaft Alignment and laser roll alignment (parallel) systems. VibrAlign Southeast is also the area representative for other machinery reliability products such as vibration data collectors and analyzers, from SKF Condition Monitoring, and lubrication analysis systems from UCC and Herguth laboratories.

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Suppliers

Bird Tire Sales and Service, Inc.: Master distributor of forklift and industrial tires for wholesale and retail distribution.

HVACTool.com: brought to you by JHL Supply, proudly providing specialty tools and equipment since 1956. Share information with fellow service technicians.

Colleges & Universities

Lambton College: keeps pace with the changing demands of the workplace by offering hundreds of innovative and challenging part-time courses and over fifty full-time post-secondary programs that provide students with the skills needed to launch a successful career.

National Reliability Engineering Information Center: This informative web site is supported in part by the Center for Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland and the IEEE Reliability Society. Contains many links to web sites related to the reliability and maintenance field.

Rochester Institute of Technology: The College of Engineering at RIT, through the Center for Quality and Applied Statistics, offers a Master of Science degree in applied statistics to provide its students with state-of-the-art statistical thinking and methods. The College also offers an advanced certificate in statistical quality, for students whose primary interest is in the field of quality.

The Maintenance and Reliability Center at The University of Tennessee: A resource for industry with a focus on education, research, development, information, and application of advanced maintenance and reliability engineering.

The Robert Gordon University - Faculty of Science & Technology: Premier vocational university in the United Kingdom.

Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Engineering: Creating pathways for tomorrow's technology.

University of New Orleans: Gulf Coast Region Maritime Technology Center

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Discussion Forums

Reliability Center, Inc. Forums: RCI invites you to participate at our own discussion forums. There are nine topics of discussion to choose from.

ASME International: collection of mechanical engineering-related forums.

Engineer's Edge.com: Design and Engineering Forum.

Eng-Tips Forums: join thousands of other professionals in hundreds of peer-to-peer non-commercial engineering support forums.

HVAC-TALK.com: This forum hosts 14 HVAC discussion topics.

MaintenanceForums.com: Where reliability & maintenance meet.

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