Links - Research and Reference

Please find a selection of useful reading material listed below.

Cambridge University - the Control Group in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. This server is also the home of the Control Engineering Virtual Library, which contains links to many other sites related to control engineering.

POSC - Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation - POSC is an international not-for-profit membership corporation. It is uniquely designed to unite industry people, issues and ideas to facilitate E&P information sharing and business process integration. POSC provides open specifications for information modeling, information management, and data and application integration over the life-cycle of E&P assets.

WorldFIP - Vendor Independant Open Fieldbus Standard - a single consistent technology for all levels of the fieldbus system, combining the worlds of closed-loop control and information-technology on one bus.

ESPRIT - The EU Information Technology Programme

Safetylink - Readily access the World's electrical product safety approval test labs including CSA, FM, the NRTLs, SEMKO, the TUVs, UL, VDE and 100's more; standards bodies such as ANSI, CENELEC, IEC, EIA, and ETSI; government links such as the CPSC, FCC, OSHA, NIST and the EU. CE marking information can also be found here as well as the Low Voltage Directive ( LVD ) 73/23/EEC and the U.S. - EU Mutual Recognition Agreement (U.S-EU MRA). This site is provided by Product Safety International, publisher of IPSN.

International Atomic Energy Agency - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) serves as the world's central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the nuclear field, and as the international inspectorate for the application of nuclear safeguards and verification measures covering civilian nuclear programmes.

UK National Physics Laboratory - As the UK's national standards laboratory, NPL has a mission to satisfy the nation's current and future needs for physical measurement standards; to seek new ways in which the improved use of measurement can contribute to UK competitiveness, and to serve customers worldwide with an expanding range of high quality scientific services.

ARC - Automation Research Corporation - Over the past decade, ARC has become the leader in providing strategic planning and technology advisory services to major manufacturing companies and suppliers around the world.

Manufacturing Online

Industry Net - Industry.net, an IHS Group Company, is the world's largest engineering-related, Internet-based technical information community enabling unparalleled one-to-one marketing of industrial products and services.

North American Industry Classification System - The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. NAICS will reshape the way we view our changing economy.

SERCOS - SERCOS North America was founded in the early 1990s to facilitate and promote the use of the digital SERCOS interfaceT standard (IEC 61491) -- the only internationally approved communication standard for motion control.

UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

Cast Iron Foundry - Specialize in short-to-medium run production of ferrous castings from
blueprint or specs.