Design Resources

Motors, Drives and Power Transmission

Fasteners

Sealing Solutions

Bearings

Plastics

General Materials

CAD, VR and Rapid Prototyping

Miscellaneous

Price Information

Design Organisations

Product Safety, Regulations and Standards

Patents

Library sources for Engineering

Staff within the Design Department

Motors, Drives and Power Transmission:

AEG Motors- Electric Motors

Power Transmission

Mechanical Drive Components

Control Component - Reliance Precision

Solenoids and Switch products from NSF Controls

Linear Electro-Mechanical Actuators

Electric Motors

Industry Components

Fasteners:

Bighead On-Line - Bonding Fasteners

Components Direct Products - Screws

Nylon, Aluminium fasteners etc

Sealing Solutions:

City Seals and Bearings Ltd - Products

Greene, Tweed & Co.'s Fluid Handling Group- Seals

Bearings:

SKF Linear Motion Bearings etc

Euro-Bearings

Plastics:

Polymer-search - Plastics

PRW Plastic Solutions

British Plastics & Rubber

Plastics News

Plastics Net

British Plastics

MoldFlow - Plastics Software (Available in Design Dept)

123 Plastics - Plastics Information site

General Materials:

Materials Web

Steel Company

Metals Website

CAD, VR and Rapid Prototyping:

Departmental CAD Site - Solid Edge

CAD Links for industry standard CAD software

3D Modelling Links and Tutorials

Virtual Reality

Cad and Technical information

Miscellaneous:

Photoshop Tutorials

General Information on CNC Coding

Engineeringtalk - new product news

How Stuff Works

Product Design Information

Italian Design Company - Design Process

Engineering Information

General Engineering Information

Design Council About Design - IPR

Esteco Optimisation

Manufacturing Design Book

The IDATER database (1988-2001) Design Research

The Vehicle Certification Agency

Engineering Design Basics

Quality Function Deployment

Design Engineering

Edinburgh University, Virtual Library for Engineering

Ergonomics Website

Electronic Design Library

Bearing Price lists

British Plastics & Rubber

Electric Motors - Screwfix Direct

HDPE, LDPE, Polypropylene, PVC and PET contract prices from Polymertrack

Links to all construction material costs on the Web

MatWeb - The Online Materials Information Resource

MEPS - Steel prices

Metal Bulletin

Motion Control Products ltd.

OnlineMetals.com

Plastic Market Monthly-Prices

Plastics India - an Information and database site on Indian plastic industry from Mumbai India ,an Indian Plastic portal.

PlastxWorld

Steel Business Briefing - Steel Prices

Contract Prices for Plastics, ABS,PET etc

London Metal Exchange - for daily metal prices

Design Organisations:

Design Council

British Design Innovation

European Design Regulations

Product Safety, Regulations and Standards:

Machinery Regulations Integrated Product Standards Guidance

UK Product regulations- Product and Home Safety

Consumer Safety Leaflets

Consumer and Competition Policy

Food Contact Materials and Legislation Guidance

Health and Safety Executive

Office of Public Sector Information website

EC Product Safety Directives

European Agency for Health and Safety at Work

British Standard Institute

Standards held in Library

EC Regulations

The library subscribes to the EU Infobase, which is accessed through Merlin by selecting 'Databases' and supplies relevant data on EC Regulations.You can also search for EC regulations in the Eur-Lex database. Access this as follows:

Go to the library web page and follow the route:

Site Map/EU Documentation Centre/ European Union Databases/Eur-Lex/Search

Patents:(with patent search facilities)

US Patent Office

European Patent office

Library sources for Engineering:

University Library

Catalogue Search