Associations for motors, drives, and motion control.

Associations

There are quite a few associations involved in the motor control industry. Users, specifiers, influencers, governmental bodies, suppliers, and consultants all have different bodies with whom they work to ensure that certain standards - technical, ethical, and business wise are upheld.

Associations are an excellent resource for:

Technical documentation
Industry trends
Lists of companies in the industry
Contacts for further assistance

The following is a partial list of associations that may be of interest to visitors.

AACC. American Automatic Control Council.
AIAA. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
AIChE. American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
- Computing & Systems Technology Division.
AMS. The American Mathematical Society.
ASME. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASME homepage.
- The MechEng software archive.
ERCIM. The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics.
IASTED. International Association of Science and Technology for Development
ICS. The Industrial Computing Society.
IEEE. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- IEEE homepage.
- Control Systems Society.
- Control gopher.
- Working Group on Discrete Event Systems.
- Working Group on Hybrid Dynamical Systems.
- Control System Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Control.
- Technical committee on Intelligent Control
InstMC. The Institute of Measurement and Control.
IEE. The Institution of Electrical Engineers.
IFAC. The International Federation of Automatic Control.
- IFAC homepage.
- Technical Committee on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control.
ILAS. The International Linear Algebra Society.
ISA. The International Society for Measurement and Control.
MSRI. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- NASA Homepage.
- Technical report server.
SIAM. The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
UKACC. United Kingdom Automatic Control Council
PTDA - Power Transmission Distributors Association
EASA - Electrical Apparatus Service Association
NEMA - National Electrical Manaufacturers Association
NEMRA - National Electrical Manufacturers Rep Association
NAED - National Association of Electrical distributors
MANA - Manufacturers Agents National Association
MHEDA - Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association
IEC - International Electrical Committee
IDA - Industrial Distributors Association
ISO - International Standards Organization
IBEW - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
FCC - Federal Communications Committee
CSI - Construction Specification Institute
AHTD - Association of High Tech Distributors
CSIA - Control Systems Integrators Association
GAMBICA - UK Control Systems Integrator Association
ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers
ASMMA -
NAM - National Association of Manufacturers
CNA - Association Meccanical (Italy)
AEECENTER - Association of Energy Engineers
AFE - Association of Facilities Engineers
NSPE - National Society for Professional Engineers
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers
epri - Electrical Power Research Institute
IMCSS - Incremental Motion Control Systems Society
FPDA - Fluid Power Distributor Organization
ISA - International Society for Measurement and Control