OCI staff members are hard at work every day finding reliable and trustworthy avenues for research and investigation into the newest and most innovative ideas, practices, and solutions worldwide. Below is a list of the many internet website links that we have found to be useful in everyday engineering consulting.
Industry Magazines & Publishers
Advanced Manufacturing
APICS The Performance Advantage
Assembly Magazine
Compliance Magazine
DC Velocity Magazine
Distribution Center Managment
Food Logistics
Frontline Solutions / Innovate
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies Magazine
HowStuffWorks
IDII Software Newsletter
Inbound Logistics
Industry Week
Industrial Distribution Magazine.
Integrated Solutions Magazine.
Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Material Handling, and Warehousing
Logistics Management & Distribution Report
Logistics Today
Journal of Commerce
Manufacturing News.
Manufacturing Systems Magazine.
Material Handling Engineering Magazine
Material Handling Management
Material Handling Product News
Modern Materials Handling Magazine
Modern Distribution Management Plant Engineering Magazine
New Equipment Digest
Operations & Fulfillment Magazine
Parcel Shipping & Distribution
Progressive Distributor
Purchasing B2B
Refdesk
RFID Update
RFID Journal
Speech Technology Magazine
Supply Chain Digest
Supply Chain Systems
Supply Chain Technology News
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply Chain Manufacturing and Logistics Solutions
The Simulation Education Homepage
The WWW Virtual Library of Logistics
Thomas Register of Manufacturers
Traffic World
United States Government:
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
FedWorld Home Page
National Association of Fire Marshals
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA Ergonomics
OSHA Lift Truck Trading Regulations
U.S. Department of Commerce
Professional Societies, Trade Organizations & Non-Profit Groups:
Advanced Manufacturing Research (AMR)
Air Transport Association (ATA)
American Iron & Steel Institute (AISI)
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
Automatic Identification and Data Capture Industry Association (AIM)
American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS)
American Society of Transportation & Logistics, Inc. (AST&L)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
American Management Association (AMA)
American Trucking Association (ATA)
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)
Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)
Association for Operations Management (APICS)
Association of Facilities Engineers (AFE)
Association of Mezzanine Manufacturers (AMM)
Association of Professional Material Handling Consultants (APMHC)
Automatic Identification (AutoID)
Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)
Canadian Pallet Council (CPC)
Canadian Wooden Pallet & Container Association (CWPCA)
Center for Unit Load Design (CULD)
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR)
Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA)
Council of Logistics Management (CLM)
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
Distribution Management Association (DBM)
EPC Global
Food Marketing Institute (FMI)
Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA)
Hazardous Goods Advisory Council (HMAC)
Hoist Manufacturers Institute (HMI)
Industrial Distribution Association (IDA)
Industrial Truck Association (ITA)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP)
Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA)
Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)
International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW)
International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA)
International Code Council (ICC)
International Import Export Institute
International Safe Transit Association (ISTA)
International Trade Administration
International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA)
ISO 9000 Translated into Plain English
Loading Dock Equipment Manufacturers (LDEM)
Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association (MFSA)
Manufacturing Execution Systems Association (MESA)
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA)
Material Handling & Management Society (MHMS)
Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA)
Material Handling Society of New Jersey (MHSNJ)
Monorail Manufacturers Association (MMA)
National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM)
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
National Industrial Transportation League (NITL)
National Retail Federation (NRF)
National Safety Council (NSC)
National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI)
Reusable Plastics Container & Pallet Association (RPCPA)
Robotic Industries Association (RIA)
Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) (RI)
Society of Logistics Engineers (SOLE)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering
Society of Plastics Engineers
Storage Equipment Manufacturing Association (SMA)
Supply-Chain Council (SCOR)
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Universal Code Council (UCC)
Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC)
Nanotechnology:
NY STAR - NanoNY- The Future. Right Now. New York
Rutgers University-School of Engineering Nano Sources
National Nanotechnology Inftrestructure Network
The Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility (CNF)
The Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF)
The Georgia Tech-NNIN (GIT-NNIN)
NanoTech User Facility (NTUF) at the University of Washington (UW)
The Michigan Nanofabrication Facility (MNF) at the University of Michigan
The Nano Technology at the University of Minnesota
The Penn State Nanofabrication facility (Nanofab)
UCSB has extensive facilities and research in nanotechnology.
The Microelectronics Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin (MRC)
Nanoscience @ University of New Mexico
Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS)
Howard Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility (HNF)
Triangle National Lithography Center (TNLC),
New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium (NJNC)
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany
National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
NanoLink - Key Nanotechnology Sites on the Web
Pharmaceutical:
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
American Pharmacists Association
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Pfizer
Merck & Co., Inc.
Novartis
Pharmaceutical Online
American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
Pharmaceutical Business Review
Abbott
Life Sciences/Biology:
Biotech-Related Web Sites
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Center for Disease Control Workplace Safety & Health
Stanford Human Genome Center (SHGC)
Human Genome Project (HGP)
Federal Office of science
The Community Sequencing Program
Nature.com
Medical Research:
National Institutes of Health
Alliance for Aging Research
Medical Research Council
New England Journal of Medicine
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Mayo Clinic
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Innovation Today
National Jewish Medical and Research Center
Polymers & Plastics:
Center for Applied Polymer Research
Cornell University of Materials Research (CCMR)
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
USDA-Plant Polymer Reserch Unit (PPL)
University of Sheffield Polymer Centre,
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) at MIT
Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA)
Plastics.com
Penn State University ~ Earth and Mineral Sciences Library
McGill research centres
Research and Development:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Office of Science Quick Links
Oak Ridge Laboratory
Ames Laboratory
Standford Linear Accerlurator Laboratory
Office of Project Assessment
DOE Scientific and Technical Information
Small Business Technology Transfer
Federal Aviation Administration
Information Technology:
CIO
CNET
CompInfo
internet.com
Gizmo's top picks
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
National Academies
Bitpipe
Information Society Technologies (IST)
THE IDG NETWORK
Telecommunications:
Telecom
ABTolls
Angus TeleManagement Group
Federal Communications Commission
North American Numbering Plan Administration
Telecom Association
Phone +
ICB Toll Free News
TELECOM Digest and Telecom
theipsite.
Environment and Energy:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FuelEconomy
CO2 Science
Environment News Service
FHWA Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty (HEP).
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
Department of Energy
Energy Sources
U.S. Department of Energy's Genomics
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)