Whilst every effort is made to ensure technical accuracy of the information supplied on iceweb.com.au, Keyfleet Pty Ltd and its employees accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by error or omission from the data supplied. Users should make and rely on their own independent inquiries. By accessing the site users accept this condition. Should you note any error/omission or an article offends please do not ignore it, contact the webmaster and we will review, rectify and remove as necessary.
Get seen by the people who use
your products!
THIS SPACE
can be yours
Other Great Tools links from ICEweb
Acronym Finder
6.11
Find
out what any Acronym, Abbreviation, or Initialism stands for. With more
than 1,000,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest
and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.
Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym
Finder contains more than 5 million acronyms and abbreviations.
Calculators
Mate - online symbolic calculator
by
Tusanga - This free online symbolic calculator enables
you to define variables and functions as well as to evaluate expressions
containing numbers in any number system from 2 (binary) over 8 (octal), 10
(decimal) and 16 (hexadecimal) to 35, roman numerals, complex numbers,
intervals, variables, matrices, function calls, Boolean values (true and false)
and operators (and, or, not ...), relations (e.g. greater than) and the
if-then-else control structure. Comments are C-style /* */.
The
Ultimate Collection of Online Calculators - This site certainly has a huge
swag of calculators covering a range of industries, subjects and those useful
for those everyday conversions etc. From Crest Capital.
Commissioning Tools
Commonsense
Engineering Safety Tips When Commissioning Plant - IDC
have compiled a list of tips on working safely when commissioning a plant or
with machinery from an electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and IT point of
view
Converters
http://www.iceweb.com.au/Technical/conversions/Conversions.htm
http://www.emersonprocess.com/rosemount/document/tds/3061b00q.pdf
- see section 5
http://onlineconverters.com/
http://www.math.com/students/converters/online_converters.htm
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html
Calculator
http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/
1.11
Change
Units - Convert
Units Your Way - Easily convert any units.
1.11
SI
Unit Converter - Have you ever need to convert millimeters in to inches, or
Miles in to Kilometers then this utility is for you. It can convert just about
anything to anything else. More then 50 different units in 20 categories - this
useful utility resides on your computer - from chipkin.com
6.11
Instrument and Control Engineering
Design Tips| The following articles are contained in IDCs Steve Mackays "Little Red" book which is not so little at 160 pages. There are some really useful tips to be found here. This pdf is worth putting on your computer for reading on those long trips. You can get it for free here. | |||
| Be foolish more often in engineering | Don’t spend another penny on formal training | Fearsomely outstanding engineering presentations | Engineering innocence |
| Is there anything left for us to do? | Where have all our engineers and technicians gone? | Roadshow through the Outback | The Great Move |
| Fingertip engineering knowledge | Have we forgotten the important aspect of our business | Excellence in Australian engineering |
Why our engineering education system is broken and what to do about it |
| Woz – What an inspiring engineer | Real time engineering collaboration | Giving it all away – or retirement from engineering | Tethered to your desk and smothered by your work – whilst mobile |
| Safety – different countries/different standards or not? | Invest in your people before you lose ‘em | As an engineering professional – what are you really worth? | Where on earth has the electronics (or indeed, plain old) hobbyist gone to? |
| Where have all our engineering leaders gone? | The (erratically) mobile engineer | In the thrall of politicians |
Putting your engineering brain into overdrive – with guaranteed improvements |
| Trust your guts and not always your engineering brain | Nuclear power: to hell? Or maybe, just maybe … heavenly bliss | What on earth do you expect the world to do with your rubbish? | One of education’s greatest confidence tricks – lectures |
|
Making up for the problem solving toolbox defect in our formal engineering education |
How many of us are guilty of negligent engineering and potential disasters? |
Don’t communicate with a battering ram or a twisted whisper, but with engineering panache! |
Don’t despise engineering advice from so-called simpletons |
| Accountants are killjoys and engineers over-engineer | Why nanotechnology is important to engineers | Are we tilting at windmills with solar or wind energy | The myth of bottling your techie’s know-how before they leave |
| How to avoid engineering career killers – 11 tips | Can we make engineering safety standards work? | Welcome to another brilliant year | Engineering and the ‘long tail’ distribution |
| Testing engineering systems: but only perfunctorily |
Power travails of Africa or Don’t let your politician walk over you |
Common sense with safety is not so common around here | A sure-fire way to electrocution and immediate sacking |
| Why is battery technology so slow in growing up? |
Hard-won experience makes you master of the engineering universe |
Innovation in engineering using (mainly) the KISS principle | Engineering multi-skilling in your part of the universe |
|
Invisible engineers and technicians – undervalued, disappearing and needing your support |
Engineering conference papers for you |
Originally from the Wild West, we engineers now need to be attuned to style and culture |
Grasp the engineering nettle in biology and medicine |
| Beat a gadget-strewn path to your local geek fair | Collaborate in creating your next engineering project |
Freely-available know-how and our Automation and conversions guides |
Engineering cloud computing |
| Your list of favourite engineering videos | What’s better? Real engineering or styling and marketing? |
We all need an engineering mentor (or advisor, teacher, role model, friend) |
Does management know how to retain engineering professionals? |
| Fossil fuels are almost done for | |||
1.11
Unit Converter Add-in for Excel®
The Unit Converter Add-in for Excel® - Download
the Unit Converter Add-in for Excel for free and start using it right now. Change
between thousands of different
units in more than sixty different
physical properties. The add-in's functions are intuitive to use and
dimensionally aware. Common abbreviations and conventions are followed
throughout, and the functions will check that the units are compatible before
converting. Engineers, contractors, and chemists will find the number of
dimensions and units available invaluable. From the very smallest units to
the largest, this converter can handle them
all. Compound dimensions without common standard units are not a problem.
The add-in comes with complete documentation,
examples, a quick
start, and installation help. The Unit Converter Add-in for Excel requires
you to have Excel, the Microsoft® spreadsheet application which is more than
likely already installed on your computer. For more help and examples, please
see the Documentation section - from tenderwire.
Pressure Conversion Tool
Pressure
Unit Conversion - Look up conversion factors or select
a conversion table for a particular pressure unit
Temperature Conversion Tool
A
useful degree C/F/Kelvin conversion tool
Currency Converters
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
Electronic /Electrical terms and
definitions
Looking for an electronic or electrical term and its
definition?
Electropedia is the
world's leading online electrical and electronic database containing more than
20 000 terms and definitions in English and French organized by subject area,
with equivalent terms in German and Spanish. This is a terrific resource thanks
to the IEC.
Internet Tools
What
is the difference between kilobits and kilobytes? This link has a good
explanation.
Have you wondered about the speed of your broadband internet
connection? Check it out on the following sites;
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest
http://www.zdnet.com.au/broadband/speedtest.htm
Cuil - This search engine combines the
biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by
ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil has indexed 120 billion
Web pages, three times more than any other search engine. This is a fantastic
resource!
Cool
"Techie Website" - WolframAlpha is sponsored by
Stephen Wolfram who developed Mathematica - the scientific software program used
in colleges all over the country. It is effectively the GOOGLE for
SCIENTISTS. Simple word queries can be useful in getting answers to
everything.
Mathematical Symbols
Math
symbols that represent mathematical concepts.
Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers
With the help of these converters and viewers, you can share your Microsoft Office files with people
who have versions of Office programs different from your own, or even with
people who don't have Office at all.
http://www.investintech.com/content/microsoftofficeconverters/
Convert
Word 2007 Documents to Word 2003 - Microsoft has
provided a compatibility kit to convert Office 2007 files to be compatible with
earlier versions.
Pdf Tools
Pdf995- This free
tool makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in
the popular PDF file format.
Pocket Guides
IDC
produces five brilliant comprehensive Engineer's
pocket guides which are now available for you to download. Subjects include:
Instrumentation/ Communications/Electrical/ Electronics/Conversion &
Engineering formulas, you have to register but it is worth the effort!
Presentation Tools
POWER POINT TEMPLATE LINKS
http://www.soniacoleman.com/templates.htm
http://www.howtoconquertheworld.com/powerpoi.htm
PRESENTERS UNIVERSITY
At the Presenters University
you'll find lots of FREE stuff to put Wow! in all your presentations.
PHOTOGRAPHS
http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
GRAPHICS
http://www.freebiedirectory.com/Free_Graphics/
PAPER WRITING
Armando's
Paper Writing and Presentations Page
Useful Paper Printouts
"Things
to Do" Reminder List - use this as a simple reminder tool.
Useful Technical Information
HowStuffWorks
Encyclopedia has informative entries on a wide variety of topics related to
geography, history, science, humanities, technology and more
Save
Money with Best Practices and an Energy Inspection Checklist -
With the economic downturn, many facility managers are facing very tight
operation and maintenance budgets. Luckily, many facilities are sitting on
multiple energy conservation opportunities that can save thousands of dollars
per year with relatively little capital investment. From Fluke.
SI System of Units
This superb link from the International
Bureau of Weights and Measures covers just about everything one would wish
to know about SI units, giving full text in English and French, a condensed
version and a pocket guide.
On Line Street Maps
WhereIs.com.au
can give you realtime maps and turn by turn directions to anywhere in Australia.
Time Zones- What time is it in? Lots of
choices
http://www.timeanddate.com/
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
http://www.worldtime.com/
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
http://www.timeticker.com/main.htm
4.11Travel
Tools - The following travel tools are from timeanddate.com
International
Dialing Codes - If you need to make a phone call to someone in another
country and you are not quite sure how to dial the number, then this service
should hopefully help you.
Distance
Calculator - This distance calculator can find distance between any two
cities or locations available in The
World Clock. The distance is calculated in kilometers, miles and nautical
miles, and the initial compass bearing/heading from the origin to the
destination. It will also display local time in each of the locations.
Travel
Time Calculator - Ever wonder what time it will be in New York when you
arrive in Hong Kong? Or how much longer your trip will be with a stop-over in
London? This service calculates the total traveling time for a round trip or a
multi-city trip (up to 8 cities) between cities or locations available in our World
Clock, as well as display the local time for the selected cities, time zone
information, and a map showing the path of the journey.
Website Archive-If a page has disappeared,
find it here
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html
Whilst every effort is made to ensure technical accuracy of
the information supplied on iceweb.com.au, Keyfleet Pty Ltd and its employees
accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by error or omission from the
data supplied. Users should make and rely on their own independent inquiries. By
accessing the site users accept this condition.
Should you note any error/omission or an article offends please do not ignore
it, contact the webmaster and we will review, rectify and remove as necessary.
Working
in the Sun?
The Cancer Council of NSW has released a guide
for working safety in the sun - some great tips here that may even save your
life.