| 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."
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| 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."
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| 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."
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| 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."
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| 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..."
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| 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..."
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| 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."
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| 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..."
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| 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..."
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| 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."
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| 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..."
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| 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..."
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| 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..."
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| 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."
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| 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."
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| 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!"
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| 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..."
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| 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."
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| Saftek "We do provide perhaps the
largest collection of free information
and links
relating to occupational safety and risk management on
the
web."
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| 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..."
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| 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."
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| 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..."
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| International
Sound and Vibration Digest This is a publication by the The
International Institute of Acoustics
and Vibration (IIAV)
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| 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..."
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| Reliability Magazine "RELIABILITY® magazine
is the first trade journal dedicated specifically to
Machinery Reliability, the Predictive Maintenance
Industry, and Computerized
Maintenance Management Systems."
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| Electric Net "Link directory, buyers guide, and resource
locator for the electrical power
industry."
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| 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..."
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| MRO Plant Services Magazine Java plug-in needed. No
description available at this time.
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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."
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| National Information Center for
Reliability Engineering The Center for Reliability
Engineering is affiliated with the University of
Maryland.
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| 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."
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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."
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| Tracor
Inc.
"Important
background areas include: signal processing,
effectiveness
modeling,
information management and interpretation, systems
analysis,
systems
engineering, and decision support systems."
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| 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..."
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| 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..."
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| EU
Brite/EuRam (MODARIOT) "A collaborative research
project to develop a method of fault diagnosis
in
rotating machinery."
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| Oak
Ridge Center for Manufacturing Tech The
original page has moved. You may wish to search for applicable
information from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Home Page.
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| 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..."
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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."
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| 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."
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| 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..."
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| 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."
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| 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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