Helpful Links

Resources  
Automation list
Casti Publishing, Inc
ChemFinder
ChemSpy
Control Engineering virtual library
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
Engineeringtalk.com
Exchange Rates
MeasurementDevices.com
News.com
Processingtalk.com
Recent Advances in Manufacturing
Temperatures.com
Theorem.net (links)
Yahoo's industry news

Organizations

ACS - American Chemical Society
AGA - American Gas Association
AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers
API - American Petroleum Institute
ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
CGA - Compressed Gas Association
CPACT - Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology
CRA - Corn Refiners Association
FRI - Fractionation Research, Inc.
IChemE - Institution of Chemical Engineers
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IMEKO - International Measurement Confederation
ISA - Connecting people and ideas in automation + control
NPRA - National Petrochemical & Refiners Assn.
NWFPA - Northwest Food Processors Assn.
SMRP - Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
TAPPI - Technical Assn. of the Pulp & Paper Industry
VMA - Valve Manufacturers Association
WBF - World Batch Forum

 

Standards

Fieldbus
-   Fieldbus Foundation
-   Read-Out's fieldbus page
-   The Fieldbus Reference List
HART
-   HART Foundation
-   The HART Book
-   NEMA RATINGS
OPC (OLE for Process Control)
-   OPC Foundation
ANSI- American National Standards Institute
BSi - BSI Group (British Standards)
CENELEC - European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
CSA - Canadian Standards Association
DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
ISA standards information
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ISO 9000 in plain English - Praxiom Research Group
NSSN national standards resource
MIMOSA - Operations & Maintenance Open Systems Alliance
SAE standards information

Regulatory compliance

EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FDA - U.S. Food & Drug Administration
OSHA - U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration
Environmental resources from the Chemical Industry Home Page
Vermont SIRI MSDS collection
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Industry malls and communities

Automationtechies.com
Chemical Online
Conversion Tables
Downtime Central
ElectricNet
The FCC Network (Fluid Catalytic Cracking)
FlowBiz
Flow Control Network
Food Online
General Valve and Actuator Search
Government Contacts
Hydrocarbon Online
ICEweb (Australia)
Manufacturing Marketplace
Oil Survey
Paperloop.Com
PetroChemLink
PetroPages.com
Pharmaceutical-Industry.info
Plant Automation.Com

Pollution Online
Power Online
Pharmaceutical Online
Pulp and Paper.Net
Semiconductor Online
Tank Farm Vendor
TechExpo
TechSavvy.com
Thomas Register 
Valve World
Water Online  
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Magazines

Asian Chemical News
Chemical Engineering 
Chemical Engineering Progress
Chemical Processing
ChemWeek
Control
Control Engineering
Flow Control Network
Hydrocarbon Processing
Food Processing
Industria (New Zealand)
Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation
InTech
Maintenance Technology
Modern Plastics
Performance Chemicals
Petroleum News
Pharmaceutical Technology
Pipe Line and Gas Industry
Plant Engineering
Plant Services
Plastics News
Pulp & Paper
Sensors
Tappi Journal
WaterWorld
World Oil

Consultants / market research

AMR - AMR Research
ARC - Automation Research Corporation
Flow Research
Frost & Sullivan
Gartner Group

Career Resources

Monster.com
Career Magazine
CareerMosaic
CareerSite
Nat'l Engineering Resources
WSJ Career Journal
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