Technological advances are making life easier as well as establishing the environment in which people are expected, perhaps forced, to be a lot more productive than they would be otherwise. So, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and add my potential burden to your backpack.
Smart phones of every stripe can be loaded with apps that seem to be able to do everything except wash dishes. Apps for the Android phone are numerous. I went through a list of them and found some that might be of value to the maintenance and reliability professional out there in the industrial world. Below is a culled list you might wish to explore.
Glossary of handyman terminology
Map received WiFi access points
Map of the devices on your LAN
Fire extinguisher inspection data collector
Calculations and codes for electrical systems
IP Address calculator for network engineers for CIDR networks
I’d guess that some of you have similarly cool Android apps that have some rational relationship to industrial maintenance and plant management. If so, I’d sure like to know about them. Maybe we can push additional work on some of your peers as a way to level the playing field.
By the way, soon you’ll be seeing here a list of apps for the iPhone.