Apps for Engineers: Monitor devices, training, documentation, 360-degree viewer

CFE Media’s Apps for Engineers is an interactive directory of more than 170 engineering-related applications for Android and iOS operation systems, created by various companies. This month, gain access to a mobile version of a website, view training videos and seminars, receive online support on products and activities, and get a 360-degree product view.

October 14, 2013

CFE Media’s Apps for Engineers is an interactive directory of more than 170 engineering-related applications for Android and iOS operation systems, created by various companies. The app helps users do their jobs better and save time, providing a “pre-sort” of relevant mobile engineering applications loaded with various calculators, catalogs, file viewers, measurement tools, and more. 

Learn more about Apps for Engineers.

WebAccess Mobile

iOS 3.0+, Android 2.0-2.1

Cost: Free

Company: Advantech

Company Website: https://bit.ly/pEPeAy

Web download link: https://bit.ly/M7KdrY (Android), https://bit.ly/pNXmfM (iOS)

A light version of the full online version: it has the necessary functionality for monitoring devices when users can’t be near a computer. It can show alarms, take snapshots of the pages with the current status of their dynamic elements, read and write tag values, and monitor the datalog trends in real-time along a graph.

Industrial Knowledge

Android 1.6

Cost: Free

Company: Industrial Technology Training

Company Website: https://bit.ly/pbRg6C

Web download link: https://bit.ly/r10gpr 

View free industrial training videos or find seminars, including: PLCs, manufacturing processes, HVAC, CNC machines, industrial robots, PID control and tuning, electrical safety, and manufacturing management.

Industry Online Support

Android 2.2

Cost: Free

Company: Siemens AG

Company Website: https://bit.ly/1OUdA

Web download link: https://bit.ly/xqDCvl

The online support application by Siemens allows you access to more than 300,000 documents on Siemens products and activities on everything from advice and assistance for a project to troubleshooting. 

DPharp

iOS 4.0, Android 1.6

Cost: Free

Company: Yokogawa Corporation of America

Company Website: www.dpharp.com

Web download link: https://bit.ly/18mSPGI  (Android), https://bit.ly/1gWiirs  (iOS)

The DPharp app features unique insight into Yokogawa’s family of pressure transmitters. It contains a highly detailed 360 degree virtual product viewer with hotspots of key features. The touch interface allows for easy manipulation of the 360 viewer to find and explore each hotspot.

– CFE Media Apps for Engineers