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Websites on manufacturing management

Advanced Manufacturing - Canadian magazine and its web site.

AME = Association for Manufacturing Excellence. A not-for-profit organization founded in 1985, of 6000 executives, senior and middle managers wishing to improve their personal performance. An educational opportunity to learn leading-edge topics from leaders and fellow practitioners by attending events and through networking. US-based, with Australian and Canadian regions as well.

Best Manufacturing Practices Centre of Excellence (BMPCOE) The main goal of BMP is to increase the quality, reliability, and maintainability of goods produced by American firms. The primary steps toward this goal are simple: identify best practices, document them, and then encourage industry, government, and academia to share information about them. Has an online library of engineering-related best practice documents.

Beyond Lean. A site that emphasizes how to make lean manufacturing and lean six sigma work well in practice. Includes many useful articles on these topics.

Canadian Innovation Centre. This organization aims to assist inventors, entrepreneurs, and innovative companies. The website includes information on how to register for an idea assessment service, an online inventors' newsletter Eureka!, as well as general information for inventors and innovative companies.

Cardiff Business School. The largest department of Cardiff University, and one of the most successful business schools in the UK - regularly placed in the top 10 of the 100 business schools in Britain.

The Centre for Business Performance, at the Cranfield University School of Management, has a long list of team performance measures.

Cluster Navigators: specialists in local economic development with a cluster focus - a worldwide leader in cluster development. 

The Competitiveness Institute: an international group of cluster practitioners, whose mission is to improve living standards and local competitiveness of regions across the world by enhancing cluster-based development initiatives. Its 5th global conference will be in Cairns, 9-11 October 2002.

Fabless Semiconductor Association. A (US-based) industry association for fabless manufacturers.

Foresight Project: full text of documents connected with the UK government initiative to explore what contribution science, engineering, and technology can make to the competitiveness of UK business.

Fraunhofer Institutes, Germany. Contract research in all fields of the engineering sciences. A staff of around 9,000 are employed at 47 research establishments throughout Germany.  A PDF presentation by Jeroen Kemp, focusing on the Institute for Industrial Engineering (Fraunhofer IAO).

Future of Manufacturing - a Cambridge University database on this subject.

Glossary of Manufacturing. A very full glossary of manufacturing terms.

Harmony project. An IMS project; its objective  is to develop an internet based support system for startups, SMEs and investors that will help to increase the yield of innovation projects.

IMS = Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. An industry-led, international Research & Development Program established in 1995 to develop the next generation of manufacturing and processing technologies. Has links to major sites about manufacturing R&D.

Industrial Research Institute. A non-profit organization with over 280 large US manufacturers.

Industry.net. Techsavvy, a US group, which provides updates in engineering, automation, and manufacturing news.

Informan Knowledgebase - a searchable database of statements on the future of manufacturing in Europe. (Not so different from Australia.) Hosted by Cambridge University's Institute of Manufacturing.

Innovation Network (www.thinksmart.com) - "Our purpose is to answer three main questions: what is innovation, how innovative is your organization, and how can you and your organization be more innovative?" US-based, with a weekly newsletter.

Lean Enterprise Research Centre - part of Cardiff University in Wales. Has some well-produced downloadable reports.

Manex = Manufacturing extension group for northern California.

MEP = Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Part of the US government's NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).

Manufacturers' Information Network. A US network which aims to provide a complete source of industry information.

Manufacturing Engineering. Studyweb: links to magazines, research groups, and other educational resources for manufacturing engineers.

Manufacturing Systems (MSI). An US-based online magazine about information technology for manufacturers. 

NIST = US government agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology. If oversees the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP).

PICSIE Associates provides business learning aids in various formats to individuals, universities and companies worldwide. PICSIE specialises in Just-in-Time (JIT) management, Lean Manufacturing and Quality

Product Data Management Information Center. A collection of a lot of material on the evolving techniques of Product Data Management (PDM).

Quality management
These websites are useful resources

American Society for Quality www.asq.org
Australian Quality Council www.aqc.org.au
British Quality Foundation www.quality-foundation.co.uk
European Network of Advanced Performance Studies www.biba.uni-bremen.de/projects/enaps
European Centre for Business Excellence www.ecforbe.com
European Foundation for Quality Management www.efqm.org
European Organisation for Quality www.eoq.org

Recent advances in manufacturing. A UK database with summaries of thousands of technical journal articles.

SearchManufacturing.com. Calls itself a search engine for manufacturing, but as there's no search field, it's really a directory. Has a useful glossary of lean manufacturing. Ever heard of chaku-chaku? Evaporating clouds? Is flow kaizen the same as kaikaku? It's all here.

Six Sigma Online (www.sixsigmaonline.org). Offers online courses in six sigma. These look like high quality courses, at reasonable prices.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers. A valuable source of technical information, career development programs, and networking opportunities for manufacturing professionals. US-based.

Superfactory. A huge site, updated daily, with links to manufacturing resources, and a Learning Centre with online and virtual programs and workshops. Also a community area with a database of manufacturing professionals, and discussion forums.

Symphony Project. An IMS project, centred in Europe, with the overall objective of equipping the target group of SMEs with a dynamic management methodology with modular and integrated methods and computer-based tools supporting them in their management activities.

TCI = The Competitiveness Institute (see above).

Techsavvy. See Industry.net

Warwick Manufacturing Group. One of the largest European centres for teaching, research, industrial development and consultancy in manufacturing engineering. Based at Warwick University, England, with over 250 staff.