Links to World Wide Web
Lean
Manufacturing Think Tanks
Kiezen
Institute Continuous improvement systems and information
Fox's TOC - Theory of Constraints Center - Resources
Links Page. Rogo's Resources
Goldratt
Eli Goldratt's Institute - Goldratt is author of The Goal, The Race, It's Not Luck
and more
National
Center for Manufacturing Sciences A club for manufacturers to share and mine
knowledge.
Performance
Benchmarking Service
Dr. Joseph M. Juran: A biography of
the founder of Juran Institute, world leaders in consulting, training and professional
services
Best
Manufacturing Practices Center-of-Expertise - BMPCOE, Inc
BPR Center Home Page Business Process
Resource Center - Links to related BPR sites
Continuous
Quality Improvement: (CQI) Server from Dept of Industrial Engineering at Clemson
University
Society of Mfg
Engineers Library: Great selection of videos and books on manufacturing
AIAG:
Automotive Industry Action Group
AME -
Association of Manufacturing Excellence
Institute of
Advanced Manufacturing Sciences (IAMS) promotes the adoption of technology in
manufacturing
National
Coalition for Manufacturing Leadership -at MIT - Abstracts, thesis and working papers
on-line
Best Practice Guides and Tools
free from the England's Dept of Trade & Industry
Management
Round Table a product development think tank
Manufacturing
Networking
Process Simulation
- The
Simulation Education Homepage - Links for learning about
simulation
- Systems Modeling: World-leading
supplier of simulation and production scheduling technology
- Lanner Group Authors of
the Witness Simulation Software
- Simul8 A new $500+
simulation software product that is giving Lanner & others a heart-attack.
- Symix Pritsker
Corporation's simulation software for discrete event and continuous modeling
- AESOP Optimization of Systems and Business Processes
- AutoSimulations
Facility, Scheduling and SemiConductor Production Software
- CPLEX Mathematical Programming Software for Optimization
- Deneb Robotics
Makers of Quest manufacturing simulation software
- Imagine That simulation software for discrete event and continuous modeling
- PROMODEL Corporation
Makers of the famous PROMODEL simulation software
- Robotic Workspace
Technologies Simulation software systems for robots
- TECNOMATIX Digital Factory for integrated optimization of production
- Simulation
Dynamics, Inc. Consultants with several good white-papers on-line
Product Data
Management (PDM)
Product Data
Management Information Company: A central information source on PDM technology
PDM
Presentations on-line and free from the PDMIC
conference in PowerPoint.
Society of Concurrent
Engineering
Integrated Support Systems, Inc. - ISS - develops software solutions and provides training and services in
the areas of configuration management, product data management, and logistics.
Configuration Data Services - providing product data
management and configuration management
CAD/CAM
Publishing - publisher of these monthly newsletters: Technical
Computing Report, Computer Aided Design Report, Product Data Management Report, and Rapid
Prototyping Report.
Workgroup
Technology Corporation (WTC) - Knowledge-based Program
Management (KPM) and Product Data Management (PDM) solutions.
Life Cycle
Solutions, Inc. - services and training for companies
investigating, evaluating, purchasing, implementing or evolving Product Data Management
(PDM) solutions.
Sherpa Corporation
- developer of in enterprise production product data management (PDM)
solutions
IMAN
- product data management system, encompassing all phases of the product
life cycle to help increase profits and gain competitive advantages.
HP
Technical Servers - engineering servers and technical utilities.
Information on UNIX and NT high performance servers as well as product data management
PDM, CAD and electronic design automation EDA.
CMstat
- supplier of cross-platform Configuration Management and Product Data
Management (CM/PDM) software and systems
Gateway Group
- electronic document and product data management
Structural
Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) International supplier of
mechanical design automation (CAD/CAM/CAE) software, product data management (PDM/PIM)
software, and engineering services
Matra
Datavision - software vendor for CAD, analysis, engineering, and
product data management solutions
Manufacturing
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP/MRP)
e-Commerce:
Logistics, Supply Chain
Management, Digital Markets
Industrial Engineering & Maintenance Management
Ergonomics
Professional Licensing and Accreditation
Engineering
Societies, Councils and Associations
AME -
Association of Manufacturing Excellence
ANSI - American National Standards
Institute
APICS - American Production and
Inventory Control System - Detroit Chapter
ASCE - American Society of Civil
Engineers
ASEE - American Society for
Engineering Education
ASET - American Society
of Engineering Technology
ASME - American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
ASNT - American Society for
Nondestructive Testing
ASQ - American Society of Quality
CLM - Council of Logistics Management
EWC - Engineering Workforce
Commission
HFES - Human Factors and
Ergonomic Society
Institute of Industrial Engineers
IEEE - The Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers
INFORMS - The Institute for
Operations Research and Management Sciences
ISO Online an
electronic information service provided by the Central Secretariat of ISO
NSSN - National Resource for
Global Standards
NAS: National Academy of Sciences
PMI - Project Management
Institute
SAE - Society of Automotive
Engineers
SME - Society of Manufacturing
Engineers
Warehousing Education and Research
Council
Publications
of Interest
Manufacturing.Net:
Links to Manufacturing-related publications
Manufacturers' News,
Inc. (MNI): Publisher of manufacturing directories
Journal of
Electronic Commerce * electronic commerce papers
National
Manufacturing Week A venue for manufacturing knowledge and networking
Newslink: a
guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations
Newspapers Online
Crain's
Detroit Business News - Calendar
The local business venue with a calendar of local seminars and organizations.
Packaging Digest: Designed
for makers and prime users of packaging
Intelligent
Manufacturing
APICS
Index
National Engineering Week:
General information about the annual event
National Manufacturing
Week
Industry Week
Magazine - Searchable
General
Reference and Search Engines
Eng-Tips Forum:
900+ non-commercial peer-to-peer support forums and links for
engineering professionals
Engineering Information
Inc.: Important engineering literature for technical professionals, researchers and
managers.
Edinbrugh Engineering
Virtual Library: More than 1,400 engineering-related resources
Environment
Online: Online community provides specific industry news, technology announcements,
employment opportunities, discussion, etc. for engineers
Virtual Community of
Associations
WWW Project
Management Forum
Bigfoot:
Email addresses, white pages, and yellow pages updated monthly
Chilton: Information
on research, books, events and magazines of interest
CIA
World Fact Book: An interesting site. Includes international weights and measurement
calculator
Citynet: A guide to
internet-related information on and about major cities
555-1212.com: National and
international phone and email directories (also has a reverse directory)
Four11: can help find
email addresses
Internet Address Finder: can
help find email addresses
WhoWhere: can help
find email addresses
Zip
Code and Zip+4 Finder: Simple and efficient
Currency Converter: From
Olsen & Associates, this converts from any currency to another
American Metal Market: The
latest news, prices, analysis, products, classifieds and more
Design Info: Online
catalogs for engineers, researchers, managers, and buyers
Document Management
Library: A series of informational guides
Library of Congress
MapQuest: Gives maps
for any U.S. address (also available at lycos.com)
The North American Training
& Development Information Resource Center: Information on Training, Suppliers,
Consultants, Upcoming Trade Conferences, Trade Associations, etc.
Onelook: Has more than
50 Dictionaries, specialized and general
Praxiom
Research Group Limited: ISO 9000 Translated into Plain English
Amazon.com: The largest
online bookstore on the Internet
Research
It: An all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators and more
Tradezone:
Information about embassies, trade law, trade statistics, shipping, traveland and more
Search Engines
Alta
Vista: Searches more then 30 million web pages from Digital Equipment
- Archieplex: Search
FTP archives from around the world
- Galaxy: A topic oriented guide
to the Internet (go to Engineering and Technology)
- Excite: A highly effective
concept search engine
- ForumOne: One-stop guide to forum
topics from around the world
- Infoseek: Offers searches and a
personal news service
- Lycos: Free-Text searching of more
than 39 million URLs, also People Finder, E-Mail Finder and Custom Road Maps.
- Magellan, the McKinley Internet
Directory: Describes and rates Web resources
- Metacrawler: Searches
several engines simultaneously
- NetGuide: Offers ratings of
websites and suggests net "events" and sites to see
- Profusion:
Uses multiple search engines and filters the results
- Savvy Search:
Searches several engines simultaneously
- Search.com: standard engine with
more obscure topic-oriented choices
- WiredSource:
Selected links, with descriptions in dozens of categories
- Yahoo: An easy to use subject
guide and text-free search engine
- ...other ways to
search the Internet
Language Translation
Spanish
Translation Software Word
Magic is an excellent program for automating Spanish translations.
Travlang:
A language-to-language translation dictionary
Internet Construction
HTML Reference Sources
An
Introduction to HTML
HTMLGoodies:
Everything you need to know about HTML
InterNIC Internet Directory
and Database Services
Consulting
Travel
- Airlines:
Northwest & Mesaba Airlines, Southwest Airlines, ProAir,
American, Delta,
United, US Airways,
Continential, Spirit, TWA, ATA, British
Airways.
Rental
Cars: National, Avis, Hertz, Alamo, Dollar, Budget, Enterprise,
Thrifty .
Hotels,
Yahoo
Lodging Directory, B&B
Directory
International Chamber
of Commerce Directory, Worldwide Tourism Offices
Directory, Travel
Guides
Maps:
MapQuest, MS
Expedia Online, Delorme Atlases
After Work
Cultural Events Database
supplied by the Detroit Free Press - includes Movies query
TicketMaster and Ticket Finders for events and tickets
Sport
Clubs: Biking, Golfing,
In-Line Skating, Skiing, Canoeing, Dating
Weather Channel, Doppler 4000, Local Traffic
Vacations: Tourist Office
Directory, Michigan, Ontario, Ohio
Cubicle Life: Dilbert, WebCast Music, MP3 Music