Got a metrology, reliability, engineering or quality-related question that you need answered? Visiting one of the four forums listed in this month's Web site review may help you find the answer.
http://www.eng-tips.com. This Web site allows engineering professionals to meet and talk online. On the homepage, People Forums are divided by professional fields and under each field is a list of topics on various disciplines. This site is easy to navigate because a visitor can either click on the professional field name or on one of the topics listed underneath. Each topic has a question and then a number of responses to that technical question. Near the bottom of the homepage are Things Forums and Career Corner Forums. These forums list standards, engineering computer programs, forums by industry, and corporate survival trends and strategies. Visitors can become members to receive additional benefits. This site is informative for engineers.
http://www.reliability.com/discussion.htm. This Web site's forums focus on reliability issues such as reliability management issues, reliability metrics, reliability methods and techniques, reliability training and educational resources, benchmarking and best practices, and root cause analysis. Each topic includes a description, the number of topics for that issue, the number of replies posted for the issue and the date something was last posted. A lit light bulb icon in front of each issue lets visitors know if it is a new issue. Once a visitor clicks on an issue, another page appears that lists the discussion thread. Here, a visitor can see who posted the question, the number of replies and when the last person posted a reply. Clicking on a topic brings up a page with the author of the question, the question, the replies to the question and when the question and answer were posted.