Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today ASME International is a nonprofit educational and technical organization serving a worldwide membership of 125,000. ASME conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations; holds some 30 technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year; sets many industrial and manufacturing standards

The IEEE ("eye-triple-E") helps advance global prosperity by promoting the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.

Now celebrating 100 years of service to the nation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. NIST's mission is to develop and promote measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life.

The American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE) is a multidisciplinary technical society whose goal is to emphasize research, design, development, manufacture, and measurement of high accuracy components and systems.

Besides the high quality technical presentations the FTM is known for, this year's meeting will feature a premier session on gear inspection including a Panel Discussion on the Important Trends in Accuracy Standards. Find out how these changes will affect your business - from communicating requirements to your shop, to communicating with your customers.

RMA is the primary national trade association for the finished rubber products industry in the U.S. Comprised of two divisions, the General Products Group and the Tire Group, RMA's member-company organizations contribute upwards of $20 billion in finished rubber product shipments to the global economy. RMA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and is recognized as the leading business advocate, resource and information clearinghouse for and about today's diversified rubber industry.

Since 1980, Pacific Consulting Group has been helping organizations improve the quality of products and services that they offer to their customers. The founders of PCG developed a two-pronged approach called Applied Service Quality (ASQ) to help our clients. Project teams are led by one of the firm’s principals or senior consultants. Team members may include organizational development experts, implementation consultants, focus group moderators, statisticians, analysts, interviewers, technical writers, and production staff. Because one of the principals is involved in most projects, we can assure our clients a high level of professional expertise and attention. We are a customer satisfaction consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations increase sales, profits, and customer loyalty through improved customer satisfaction.

ANSI is a private, non-profit organization (501(c)3) that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. The Institute's mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

AST’s mission: To be the foremost developer and provider of voluntary consensus standards, related technical information, and services having internationally recognized quality and applicability that promote public health and safety, and the overall quality of life; contribute to the reliability of materials, products, systems and services; and facilitate national, regional, and international commerce.

powertransmission.com helps ENGINEERS, PURCHASING AGENTS and MRO professionals find suppliers of gears, motors, bearings, clutches, couplings, speed reducers and other components that transmit mechanical power. You can find all the leading manufacturers and suppliers right here.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 140 countries, one from each country. ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. ISO's work results in international agreements which are published as International Standards.

Universal Technical Systems undertakes turnkey projects for Web-enabling services in the following areas: database applications, Microsoft Excel add-ins, financial and work flow applications, E-commerce solutions, Web-based training, computerized handbooks, sales and product configurators, AutoCAD applications, interactive standards, gear training and gear consulting.

New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc., (NHBB), is one of the world's leading manufacturers of precision bearings and bearing products. NHBB offers a broad and diverse range of quality, precision bearing products to the aerospace, communications, computer, health care, defense, and instrumentation markets.

eFunda is a premier online publisher for original engineering content and software. We offer over 30,000 pages of engineering fundamentals and calculators, authored exclusively by our highly educated and experienced staff to give you the most credible engineering information.

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