Exhibit 3.(i)(a)

                         CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT TO THE

                         CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF

                            EDISON CONTROL CORPORATION      

   To:  The Secretary of State
        State of New Jersey

             Pursuant to the provisions of Section 14A:9-2(4) and Section
   14A:9-4(3), Corporations, General, of the New Jersey Statutes, the
   undersigned corporation executes the following Certificate of Amendment to
   its Certificate of Incorporation:

             1.   The name of the corporation is Edison Control Corporation.

             2.   The following amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation
   was approved by the directors and thereafter duly adopted by the
   shareholders of the corporation on the 9th day of June, 1998:

             Resolved, that the first paragraph of Article 3 of the
   Certificate of Incorporation be amended to read as follows:

             3.  Number of Shares.  The aggregate number of shares
             of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to
             issue is twenty-one million (21,000,000) shares, of
             which twenty million (20,000,000) shares are to be
             Common Stock with a par value of $.01 per share and
             one million (1,000,000) shares are to be Preferred
             Stock with a par value of $.01 per share. 

             3.   The number of shares entitled to vote upon the amendment
   was 2,275,933.

             4.   The number of shares voting for and against such amendment
   is as follows:

   Number of Shares Voting                      Number of Shares Voting
       For Amendment                               Against Amendment   

         1,991,526                                        284,407


   Dated this 9th day of June, 1998.

                                      EDISON CONTROL CORPORATION


                                      By: /s/ William B. Finneran
                                           William B. Finneran
                                           Chairman of the Board