Associations

Abrasive Engineering Society www.abrasiveengineering.com/

Aerospace Industries Association www.aia-aerospace.org/

Aluminum Association www.aluminum.org/

American Bearing Manufacturers Association www.abma-dc.org/

American Ceramic Society www.ceramics.org/

American Engineering Association www.aea.org/

American Gear Manufacturers Association www.agma.org/

American Iron and Steel Institute/Automotive www.autosteel.org/

American Iron and Steel Institute/Steelworks www.steel.org/

American Machine Tool Distributors' Association www.amtda.org/

American Measuring Tool Manufacturers Association www.amtma.com/

American Mold Builders Association www.amba.org/default.php

American National Standards Institute www.ansi.org/

American Society for Nondestructive Testing Incorporated www.asnt.org

American Society for Quality www.asq.org/portal/page?_pageid=33,32429,33_32554&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

American Society for Testing & Materials International www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/index.shtml?E+mystore

American Society of Mechanical Engineers International www.asme.org/

American Welding Society www.aws.org/

AMT—The Association for Manufacturing Technology www.amtonline.org/

ASM American Society of Metals International www.asminternational.org/

ASM American Society of Metals Society of Carbide and Tool Engineers, Pittsburgh Chapter www.scte10.org/

Association for Facilities Engineering www.afe.org/

Association for Manufacturing Excellence www.ame.org/main.php

Coated Abrasives Fabricators Association www.cafa-info.org/

Copper Development Association www.copper.org/

DirectIndustry - The Virtual Industrial Exhibition www.directindustry.com/cat/machine-tools-machining-E.html#reflu=524

Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International www.fmanet.org/FMA/FMA_Homepage.htm

George S. May International Company, The http://www.georgesmay.com/resources_industry_spotlights_manufacturing.cfm

Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association www.ilma.org/

Industrial Diamond Association of America Incorporated www.superabrasives.org/

Industrial Distribution Association www.ida-assoc.org/

Industrial Fasteners Institute www.industrial-fasteners.org/

Industrial Supply Manufacturers Association www.isapartners.org/

Institute for Supply Management www.ism.ws/

Institute of Industrial Engineers www.iienet.org/

International Organization for Standardization www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage

International Titanium Association www.titanium.org/

ISA--Instrument Society of America www.isa.org/template.cfm?section=Professionals_and_Practitioners

Italian Trade Commission www.italtrade.com/usa/

Machinery Dealers National Association www.mdna.org/

Managing Automation www.managingautomation.com

Medical Device Manufacturers Association www.medicaldevices.org/public/

Metal Powder Industries Federation www.mpif.org/

Metal Treating Institute www.metaltreat.com/

Michigan Tooling Association www.metaltreat.com/

National Association of Manufacturers www.nam.org/s_nam/index.asp

National Association of Metal Finishers www.namf.org/

National Center for Manufacturing Sciences www.ncms.org/index.html

National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing www.nacfam.org/

National Institute for Metalworking Skills Incorporated www.nims-skills.org/home/index.htm

National Society of Professional Engineers www.nspe.org/

National Tooling and Machining Association www.ntma.org/

Nickel Institute www.nidi.org/

North American Die Casting Association www.diecasting.org/

Precision Machined Products Association www.pmpa.org/

Precision Metalforming Association www.pma.org/

Robotic Industries Association www.roboticsonline.com/index.cfm

SkillsUSA Incorporated www.skillsusa.org/index2.html

Society of Automotive Engineers International www.sae.org/servlets/index

Society of Manufacturing Engineers www.sme.org/

Society of Women Engineers www.swe.org/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=5

Surface Engineering Coating Association www.surfaceengineering.org

The Welding Institute World Centre for Materials Joining Technology www.twi.co.uk/j32k/index.xtp

Tooling and Manufacturing Association www.tmanet.com/

U.S. Cutting Tool Institute www.uscti.com/

Unified Abrasives Manufacturers' Association www.uama.org/

Government research and legislative information

Air Force Research Laboratory www.afrl.af.mil/index2.html

Ames Laboratory www.external.ameslab.gov/

Brookhaven National Laboratory www.bnl.gov/world/

Department of Defense: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) www.darpa.mil/

Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer www.federallabs.org/

Georgia Tech Research Institute www.gtri.gatech.edu/index.html

Idaho National Laboratory www.inel.gov/

Library of Congress/Legislative information thomas.loc.gov/

Los Alamos National Laboratory www.lanl.gov/worldview/

Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory www.mel.nist.gov/

Manufacturing Extension Partnership www.omac.org/

NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html

NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn Research Center search.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/home/index.html

NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/home/index.html

National Center for Manufacturing Sciences www.ncms.org/index.html

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

National Institute of Standards and Technology www.nist.gov/

National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov/

National Renewable Energy Laboratory www.nrel.gov/

National Science Foundation www.nsf.gov/

National Science Foundation www.nsf.gov/index.jsp

Oak Ridge National Laboratory www.ornl.gov/

Occupational Safety & Health Administration www.osha.gov/

Office of Naval Research www.onr.navy.mil/

Open Modular Architecture Controls www.omac.org/

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory www.lanl.gov/worldview/

Sandia National Laboratories www.sandia.gov/

U.S. Department of Commerce — Office of Machinery ita.doc.gov/td/machinery/

US Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command www.tacom.army.mil/main/index.html

US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy www.eere.energy.gov/industry/

Educational institutions

Carnegie-Mellon’s Robotics Institute www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sdm/

Lorain County Community College Manufacturing Center for Excellence www.lorainccc.edu/LCCC/Academic/ET-ATC/Nord_ATC/CenterforExcellence.Normal.2279.lccc

MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology web.mit.edu/

PennState’s Applied Research Laboratory www.arl.psu.edu/

PennState’s Industrial Research Office www.techtransfer.psu.edu/iro/index.html

Purdue University’s Research Centers www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/research/index.html

Stanford University – Rapid Prototyping Laboratory www-rpl.stanford.edu/

University of Florida’s Machine Tool Research Center mtrc.me.ufl.edu/

University of Manchester www.manchester.ac.uk/

University of Michigan’s College of Engineering Research Centers www.engin.umich.edu/research/

Research & Development

Advanced Ceramics Research www.acrtucson.com/

CFD Research Corp. (CFDRC) www.cfdrc.com/

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (a German National Research Center) www.fzk.de/stellent/groups/public/documents/published_pages/index_en.php

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Research Center www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/EN/index.jsp

Intelligent Manufacturing Systems www.ims.org/

National Center for Excellence in Metalworking Technology (NCEMT) www.ncemt.ctc.com/

United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR) www.uscar.org/

Penton Media publications

Forging www.forgingmagazine.com

Foundry www.foundrymag.com

Industry Week www.industryweek.com

Logistics www.logisticstoday.com

Machine Design www.machinedesign.com

Medical Design www.medicaldesign.com

Metalproducing www.metalproducing.com

New Equipment Digest www.newequipment.com

Used Equipment Digest www.buyused.com

Web forums

Google Metalworking Group groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking

Aerospace

MDOT Aerospace www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sdm/ ?

Materials

AZom – the A to Z of materials www.azom.com/BrowserDownload.asp

HI TecMetal Group www.htg.cc/

Valmont/George Industries Incorporated www.valmont.com/asp/coatings/finishes/asp/finishes1.asp

Structural fabrication

PBS-Public Broadcasting Service Building Big www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/index.html

General

Prefabricated metal buildings www.gensteel.com

www.fanucrobotics.com www.fanucrobotics.com

www.ultradexusa.com www.ultradexusa.com

www.absolutemachine.com www.absolutemachine.com

www.grinding.com www.grinding.com

www.henningsoftware.com www.henningsoftware.com

www.vermontgage.com www.vermontgage.com

www.empire-airblast.com www.empire-airblast.com

www.remsales.com www.remsales.com

www.fortune-cnc.com www.fortune-cnc.com

www.tongtaiusa.com www.tongtaiusa.com

www.komaprecision.com

www.bijur.com

www.bostoncenterless.com

www.accurounds.com

www.toolref.com