New Additions to the Signpost Site up to 1st January 2000.

• The Exhibitions Page is being constantly updated, as is the News page.

• Scientific Computing & Instrumentation - "Where Computers and Instruments converge!"
• Electronic Design - Technology-Applications-Products-Solutions. Millennium Meditations is perhaps a final farewell to the 20th century and hello to Y2K.
• SMT Newsletter, from the Standards Measurement and Testing European Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS).
• Association for Instrumentation, Control, Automation (GAMBICA) - Group of Association of Manufacturers of British, Instruments, Control and Automation.
• Y2K - Take a look at this also at Manufacturing AUTOMATION the Canadian publication.

• Computer & Automation Automation with electronics and PC technology. (German language publication).
• Control Drawinvite you to wander around the pages here and you can find out about process control systems from an engineer who knows them well. This is a useful site for a short overview of our discipline.
• The Legal Mugging of Microsoft composed after a legal finding in November 1999 by Jim Pinto.
• November'99 Archived News

• The Industrial Ethernet Association has been created to "eliminate the chaos surrounding the term.
  We've added a new section to our Y2K site listing commercial help sites.
• HP Test & Measurement Y2K site
• Wonderware Y2K Statements
• Laser Focus World, is a monthly magazine for engineers, researchers, scientists and technical professionals providing comprehensive global coverage of optoelectronic technologies, applications and markets.
• IEC publish new standards, specifications and publications in Just Published which is delivered twice a month straight to your desktop.
• European Industrial Automation Open Networking Alliance (IAONA) promotes the use of open networking in industrial and embedded applications in Europe with emphasis on the use of Ethernet and the Internet.

• We've added another poem to our Poetry Corner on the Y2K Bug. Hope you enjoy it.
• Ethernet Mail-List - The Industrial Ethernet Association has started an automated Email Discussion List by which standards will be created for using Industrial Ethernet as a fieldbus. To join the E-mail list, visit www.IndustrialEthernet.com and access a signup menu at the home page.
• The Industrial Automation Open Networking Alliance (IAONA) is for industrial automation leaders committed to the advancement of open networking from sensing devices to the boardroom via internet and Ethernet-based networks.
• The Hulsebos Directory of Fieldbus Web Sites which appeared in the August 1999 issue of Industrial Controls Intelligence, is the most comprehensive list of fieldbus links we have seen, bar none.
• Interkama'99 News features news of exhibits at the worlds biggest I&C exposition in Germany in October.
• Giles Norman produces the most beautiful evocative photographs of Ireland. The reproductions on his web site do little justice to the real thing. Well worth a look though.
• Lá (Formerly a daily but at present a weekly)
• We have reorganised our Periodicals to more fully represent Publications of interest to Instrument people.

• We've started to redesign and update our pages and formats during this month.

• For the bored! A page for all those not into Instrumentation or who are just fed-up!
• Plant Automation.com, is an Internet community for the worldwide manufacturing automation market. This community is designed to serve the needs of manufacturing engineers, MIS professionals, plant and operations management, IS managers, plant managers, design engineers, production engineers, purchasing managers, systems integrators, production engineers, and providers of services for manufacturing locations in the process of automating their plant operations.
• Test and Measurement Online, is an internet source of technical information about the test, measurement, data acquisition, data analysis, and instrumentation equipment industries.
• VerticalNet, Inc. is a creator and operator of vertical trade communities, targeted business-to-business communities.
• International Federation of Automatic Control was founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of National Member Organizations (NMOs), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country.

• In 1990, a number of prominent members of the Systems and Control community from countries of the European Union decided to set up an organization, named The European Union Control Association (EUCA), the main purposes of which is to promote initiatives aiming at enhancing scientific exchanges, disseminating information, coordinating research networks and technology transfer in the field of Systems and Control within the Union.
• International Federation of Automatic Control was founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of National Member Organizations (NMOs), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country.
• VDI/VDE-GMA Society for Measurement and Automatic Control in Germany.
• Jobsontheweb is a site which has a page for Automation or Instrumentation. Based in South Carolina USA.
• Irish ProfiBus User Group
• News for June

• Electronic Production Europes leading journal for electronics assembly.
• John Prodger Recruitment Manufacturing and Test (Britain and Ireland)
• Test The European Test Industry Journal.
• Here is another Spanish language fieldbus page mantained by Fond‹n Redes y Fluidos.
• ID Systems covers the integration of data acrossthe supply chain. Covering (among other topics) bar code, RFID, printers, scanners, MES, ERP middleware, Warehouse management software, and logistics. (US)
• Worldwide Waste Management Waste management,remediation, monitoring, recycling, detection.
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• There is now an Irish Profibus Users Group.

• Instrumentation & Control Systems process control magazine.
• News for the month of Redes Industriales, which even if you have no Spanish is a joy in web page design - clear, concise and to the point. Not all the links are to Spanish language sites.
• Plant Services MRO - New technologies for maintenance, repair and operations. (US)
• GITA - Geospatial Information & Technology Association (Don't let the name frighten you!), is the only non-profit educational association in the world that focuses on applying Automated Mapping and Facilities Management (AM/FM), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and related information technology applications for utilities, government agencies and other organizations concerned with land records and facilities management.
• Aware 2000 is an iteresting set of pages as well with some nice suggestions. "Our aim is to provide information relevant to those who wish to know more about the Year 2000 problem in the context of the Irish experience."
• One Currency for Europe - the Euro will be born on 1st of January 1999. We have set up our own EMU (European Monetary Union) - The Euro Page for our visitors.
• Manufacturing Automation is Canada's leading publication covering the application of advanced technology across manufacturing industries.
• P & L Automatiok AB market advanced simulation tools for training.