iPad Based Engineering
UK based Harris, Grant Associates have launched their latest iPad development ‘MiDox’, which provides engineering crew with an interactive, detailed and pictorial library of the boat wide system documentation including built drawings, engineering manuals and photographs of equipment locations.
The interactive documentation system, based on the iPad platform, provides electronic, user friendly and efficient access to all of the essential engineering information required on board. Key data can be found quickly allowing engineers to not only check the schematic layout but also verify the exact location of components and their related manuals from one source. Using the iPad features, such as the large display screen enables location and area information to be pinpointed quickly.
Nick Cranston, Technical Director, comments: “Providing engineers with a library of all on board system data is an integral part of ensuring key knowledge is shared from the initial system design, to the build process and then on to the engineering crew. Using the iPad as a platform, makes MiDox a powerful engineering tool. Accessing drawings for areas as you move around the boat coupled with a photographic library of component parts and installations ensures all information is available on the interactive touch screen without any disruption to an area, on a user friendly, portable device.”