These conference proceedings describe a conference that was held in May 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. There are ten papers included in this publication, they are: ~ Testing electrical power systems for safety and reliability by J.B. Franklink, D. Parker and L. Cosby; A simplified approach to reliable high quality critical grade power by R. O. Hall; Parallel active harmonic filters: the electronic solution for harmonics and power factor correlation by J.R. Johnson; Power quality initiative: polymers processing by J. G. Dougherty; Selection of power cables for PWA AC adjustable~ speed drives by C.D. Mercier and D. A. Cooper; Soft start vs AC drives - understand the differences by W.J. Lukitsch; Analysis of mechanical and electrical noise interfacing the instrument during data acquisition: development of a machine for assessing surface properties of fibers by M.E. Yuksekkaya; On-line measurement of fabric mechanical properties: compressional behaviour by W. Huang; An integrated approach to machine fault diagnosis by P. Wang, N Propers, N. Khiripet, Y. Li and G. Vachtsevanos; and Power monitoring by J.J. Toth.