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Reliabilityweb

"This web site has many features like online training, a buyer guide and directory, articles and case histories, tips, quizzes, polls, ask an expert services and much more designed to deliver value and benefit to the end user/"consumer" of maintenance & reliability products and services." 

askache.com

"We are a Chemical Engineering Help Desk accessed 
through e-mails and phone  lines. One of our main 
objectives is to encourage engineers to use the Internet 
as a resource." 

Maintenance Resources.com 

"The on-line maintenance resource for maintenance management, 
plant engineering, electrical, electronics, pneumatics, welding, 
predictive and preventive maintenance, plastics, injection molding, 
hydraulics, fluid power, HVAC, safety, total productive maintenance 
and bearings industrial training on CD-ROMs, videotapes, books and
audio tapes."

Canadian Machinery Vibration Association

"To provide a nationally recognized Canadian forum for the
exchange and advancement of the technology and practice
of vibration analysis and machinery condition monitoring."

Vibration Institute

"The Vibration Institute is a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to the exchange of practical vibration information
on machines and structures. The scope of the Institute's
activities also includes non-intrusive condition monitoring
technologies. The Institute, which was established in 1972..."

..... Colorado Chapter of the Vibration Institute (VibroTek, Inc.)
  Piedmont Chapter of the Vibration Institute
  Chesapeake Chapter of the Vibration Institute
Northern Ohio Chapter of the Vibration Institute
Niagara Frontier Chapter of the Vibration Institute
Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology

"The MFPT was formed primarily as a mechanism for effective
interchange of technical information among segments of the scientific
and engineering communities in order to gain a better understanding of
the processes of mechanical failures. The anticipated result was to reduce
the incidence of mechanical failures by improving design methodology,
to devise methods of accurately predicting mechanical failures and to
apply the increased knowledge of the field to current problems..."

International Organization for Standardization

"ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The
mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization
and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the
international exchange of goods and services, and to developing
cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological
and economic activity."

International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration

"The purpose of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration
(IIAV) is to advance the science of acoustics and vibration by creating
an international scientific society that is responsive to the needs of
scientists and engineers in all countries whose primary interests are in
the fields of acoustics and vibration. The Institute cooperates with scientific
societies in all countries and with other international organizations with
the aim of increasing information..."

Sixth International Congress on Sound and Vibration

"The Sixth International Congress on Sound and Vibration
was held on 5-8 July 1999 at the Technical University of
Denmark in Lyngby, 10 km north of Copenhagen. The Technical
University of Denmark is the leading center of engineering
education in Denmark and one of the largest technical
universities in Northern Europe..."

Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance (MIMOSA)

"MIMOSA's prime objective is to permit gaining greatest value by
combining vital condition information from multiple sources for
collective evaluation, reaching accurate determinations of current
condition and projected lifetime and communicating results in a
useful, understandable form."

Condition Monitoring and Engineering Management (COMADEM)

"Condition Monitoring, Technology Diagnostic Technology,
Maintenance Management Technology, Manufacturing Technology,
Management Information Technology, International Congress,
and exhibitions, Technical Publications, Education and Training,
Technical Advice, Information Dissemination, Short Courses,
Technical Visits, Workshops and Seminars..."

Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals

"The Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals, or SMRP,
is an independent, non-profit society by and for practitioners in the
Maintenance & Reliability Profession. We're nearly 2,000 members
strong with global penetration. And we're growing each day as
individuals and companies representing..."

Dynamic Testing Agency

"Research in the Dynamics Section is concerned with a wide range
of vibration and shock-related phenomena in structures. The various
areas of activity are focused in the following 3 main groups..."

Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)

"The members of SEM encompass a unique group of experimentalists,
development engineers, design engineers, test engineers and
technicians, and research and development scientists from industry
and educational institutions."

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASMENET)

"It conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing
operations, holds some 30 technical conferences and 200 professional
development courses each year, and sets many industrial and
manufacturing standards. Founded in 1880 as the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, today ASME International is a nonprofit
educational and technical organization serving a worldwide membership."

28th Turbomachinery Symposium (Texas A&M University)

"The 28th Turbo show was a great success...Here is a way to see
how the show benefits both attendees as well as exhibiting companies!"

Equipment Reliability Institute (ERI)

"ERI is an affiliation of engineers dedicated to increasing the reliability
and durability of automobiles, aircraft and other vehicles, as well as
electronic and other equipment. How? ERI develops and presents
technical education..."

Maintenance and Reliability Center (MRC)

"The Maintenance and Reliability Center is a new and vitally important
resource for industry. Headquartered at The University of Tennessee, the
Center uses research and cutting-edge technology to help its member
companies reduce losses caused by equipment downtime."

Saftek

"We do provide perhaps the largest collection of free information
and links relating to occupational safety and risk management on
the web."

Acoustical Society of America

"Since its organization in 1929, the Society has grown steadily
in membership and stature. At this time nearly 7000 men and
women who work in acoustics throughout the U.S. and abroad
belong to this prestigious Society. A variety of fields related to
sound are represented..."

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

"The Society of Automotive Engineers is your one-stop resource
for technical information and expertise used in designing, building,
maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or
sea, in air or space."

Acoustics and Noise Control

"We are a consulting engineering company providing  services for the
noise & vibration measurement and reduction market. Our services
include measurements and engineering services as well as instrumentation
and software sales and rentals. Our consulting engineering services..."

International Sound and Vibration Digest

This is a publication by the The International Institute of Acoustics
and Vibration (IIAV)

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM)

"ITAM's main areas of work are mathematical modeling, aerodynamics,
and physical gas dynamics. Note that the institute has done continuous
aerodynamic work for more than 30 years. Half their budget comes from
the RAS. They have to earn the other half. This comes from the Russian
Foundation for Basic Research and from contracts with different firms..."

Reliability Magazine

"RELIABILITY® magazine is the first trade journal dedicated specifically to
Machinery Reliability, the Predictive Maintenance Industry, and Computerized
Maintenance Management Systems."

Electric Net

"Link directory, buyers guide, and resource locator for the electrical power
industry."

Maintenance Technology

"the Internet companion to MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY, the magazine
of plant equipment maintenance and reliability management. We are the
premier business and technical information source..."

MRO Plant Services Magazine

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Machinery Vibration Resources

"A comprehensive listing of Machinery Vibration Resources on Internet,
including Organizations and Events, Research, Instrumentation, Software,
Consultants, and References."

National Information Center for Reliability Engineering

The Center for Reliability Engineering is affiliated with the University of
Maryland.

Plant Maintenance Resource Center

"The Plant Maintenance Resource Center is the premier web resource for
Maintenance professionals. It includes links to maintenance consultants,
CMMS and maintenance software, CMMS vendors, maintenance conferences
and conference papers, articles on maintenance, and many other valuable
resources."


New Technologies

IMI Sensors

"IMI manufactures a complete line of industrial piezoelectric vibration sensors.
Ideal for machinery monitoring, diagnostics, predictive and protective maintenance, 
these sensors are built to withstand the rigors of harsh industrial environments.
Whether permanently or magnetically mounted, these sensors provide a means
of improving the accuracy of portable data collectors and on-line monitoring
systems. They also offers a wide variety of industrial junction boxes, cable
assemblies, mounting accessories and services that allow for routine measurements
in inaccessible or hazardous locations. Their sensors and hardware are compatible
with most commercially available data loggers, on-line systems and PLC’s.
"

Tracor Inc.

"Important background areas include: signal processing, effectiveness
modeling, information management and interpretation, systems analysis,
systems engineering, and decision support systems."

NASA

"The Photonics Group has developed fiber optic based strain sensors
to detect structural vibrations in space platforms. Unwanted vibrations
are induced either by the movement of equipment and machinery or by
the motion of astronauts. Fiber optic sensors provide..."

Southwest Research Institute (SWRI)

"SwRI engineers are world renowned for their expertise in solving
piping vibration, structural, fluid dynamics and machinery problems
affecting performance, reliability and safety. The Field and Engineering
Services group provides worldwide, rapid response, in plant consulting
services..."

EU Brite/EuRam (MODARIOT)

"A collaborative research project to develop a method of fault diagnosis
in rotating machinery."

Oak Ridge Center for Manufacturing Tech

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information from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Home Page. 

Allied Signal

"Vibration testing is performed to verify the survivability of a
component or assembly or its suitability for use in a product. This may
include environmental stress screening vibration..."


Universities

University of Virginia (ROMAC)

"The Rotating Machinery and Controls (ROMAC) Laboratories at the
University of Virginia conducts research in the areas of rotor dynamics,
turbomachinery, structural dynamics, magnetic bearings, automatic
controls, turbomachinery flows, fluid film bearings, and seals."

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

"At present, the lab hosts research projects in nonlinear dynamics,
noise and vibration control, and nonlinear control. Projects conducted
in the laboratory are supervised by individual faculty members associated
with the lab."

Pennsylvania State University

"Research in acoustics and vibration is one of Penn State's enduring
strengths. The steady growth of research in acoustics and vibration
in recent years establishes the Penn State program as the largest and
most respected of its kind..."

University of Texas at Austin

"The common theme of CEM programs is viewing engineering
problems from an overall system's perspective, developing new and
innovative concepts for solving those problems, evaluating competing
technical approaches, and generating meaningful solutions and designs."

Center for Machine Condition Monitoring
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Imperial College, London
Berkeley
University of Nottingham
Institute of Mechanics, ETH, Zurich
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, England
Virginia Tech
Remote Diagnosis House
Linköping, Sweden
Aston University, England
University of Cincinnati
Texas A&M University
Wright
Binghamton
University of Tennessee

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