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 Web resources

General

BlueScope Steel (formerly BHP Steel) - major Australian producer of flat steel products provides a wide range of information for students.

Cablenetware Inc - develops innovative software tools that help the cabinet professional achieve their business goals in today's quickly evolving cabinet industry. 

Learning AutoCAD -  AutoCAD tutorials from the University of NSW.

SearchManufacturing.com - has links to many manufacturing-related websites.

Superfactory - provides best practice resources and information to assist lean manufacturing excellence.

WorkCover NSW - provides a wide range of information about safety in the workplace.

Yahoo Science: Engineering

Fabrication

American Welding Society - includes a welding journal and online catalogue

James F Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation - provides the Fabricators' and Erectors' Guide to Welded Steel Construction (in .PDF format)

Lincoln Electric - provides a wide range of welding information

Materials Technology Institute (MTI) - sponsors projects focused on both developing new technology and transferring existing knowledge to day-to-day practice.

Nickel Institute - provides online learning tools and other information designed to introduce you to the essentials of using nickel stainless steel.

World of Welding - view current and past issues of this journal

Welding Technology Institute of Australia - the WTIA publications catalogue

Foundry & Patternmaking

American Foundry Society/Cast Metals Institute E-Store - covers all areas including education, patternmaking and casting.

Cast Metals Institute (CMI) - the educational arm of the American Foundrymen's Society.

Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF) - strengthens the (US) metal casting industry by supporting unique partnerships among students, educators and industry.

Metal Casting Technologies - magazine covering news, issues and new technology affecting the Metal Casting Industry in the Asia Pacific Region.

Modern Casting - online coverage of technological advances and trends in the casting industries.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

For this program area the following forums may be of interest:

• Autodesk discussion groups - a wide range of CAD-related forums

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 10 January, 2008

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