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The Engineering Library

Every calculator, lookup table, and reference standard built into the SynthoSoft Excel add-in — organized by discipline, with the real formulas your team already checks by hand.

Last updated: July 16, 2026

200+Calculators & reference tools
16Engineering categories
1Source of truth, not 30 spreadsheets

This is the full list — not a highlight reel. Every calculator below lives inside the SynthoSoft Excel add-in, next to the same fields and units your team already uses, so the numbers don't have to leave the sheet you're working in. Some categories are broad enough that we've grouped the long tail into a count rather than naming all 20-plus items individually, but nothing is exaggerated: what's listed is what's in the add-in.

Electrical Library

32 items

Conductor sizing, protective device coordination, power quality, and distribution equipment sizing for power systems work.

  • Voltage Drop Calculator
  • Motor Full-Load Amps Lookup
  • AC Power Triangle (kW/kVA/kVAR/PF)
  • Arc Flash Incident Energy (Simplified Estimate)
  • VFD Selection & Output Current Sizing
  • Short-Circuit/Available Fault Current (First-Pass)
  • Transformer Sizing & Impedance
  • Generator Sizing Calculator
  • UPS Sizing Calculator
  • Cable Tray Fill Calculator
  • …plus 22 more electrical calculators and lookup tables covering conductor sizing, protective device coordination, power factor correction, and panel/distribution design.

Mechanical Library

21 items

Mechanical design and materials calculators covering drives, structural members, and rotating and reciprocating machine elements.

  • Belt/Pulley Drive Speed Calculator
  • Beam Deflection Calculator
  • Euler Column Buckling Calculator
  • Combined Stress (Von Mises)
  • Gear/Sprocket Train Ratio & Output Speed
  • Flywheel Inertia, Energy & Accel/Decel Torque
  • Material Properties Reference (Steel/Aluminum/Stainless)
  • Bearing Life Calculator (L10)
  • Spring Force Calculator
  • …plus 12 more mechanical design and materials calculators.

Robotics Library

17 items

Robot selection, kinematics, and end-of-arm tooling calculators for designing and sizing robotic work cells.

  • Industrial Robot Payload/Reach Comparison (26 models: FANUC/ABB/KUKA/Yaskawa/UR)
  • Delta Robot Inverse Kinematics
  • Gantry/Cartesian Axis Servo Sizing
  • Articulated Arm Joint Torque
  • EOAT Gripper Force Sizing
  • EOAT Vacuum Cup Sizing & Holding Force
  • Robot Cycle Time & Throughput
  • Cell Space & Safety Zone Requirement
  • PLCopen Motion Control Function Block Reference
  • …plus 8 more robot cell design and kinematics tools.

Controls & PLC Library

23 items

PLC, HMI, and SCADA sizing and reference tools, with Rockwell/Allen-Bradley references first among the platform-specific lookups.

  • I/O Module Type Reference
  • PLC Scan Time Estimator
  • PLC Memory & Program Size Estimator
  • PID Gain & Loop Tuning (Ziegler-Nichols)
  • Alarm Rate & Flood Analysis
  • Rockwell Logix Data Type Reference
  • Allen-Bradley PLC Family Comparison
  • SCADA Tag Count Estimator
  • Historian Capacity Calculator
  • …plus 14 more PLC, HMI, and SCADA sizing and reference tools.

Industrial Networking Library

11 items

Network sizing, protocol reference, and reliability calculators for plant-floor industrial networks.

  • Modbus Function Code Reference
  • Industrial Ethernet Cable/Connector Reference
  • Subnet/CIDR Quick Reference
  • Network Bandwidth Utilization
  • Network Latency Budget
  • Redundancy Analysis (Parallel Path Availability)
  • Protocol Communication Load (EtherNet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, OPC-UA, SCADA)
  • Industrial Network Protocol Comparison Reference
  • …plus 3 more networking calculators.

Safety Engineering Library

15 items

Machine safety and functional safety calculators covering distance, risk, and safety-rated system verification.

  • ISO 13855 Minimum Safety Distance Calculator
  • PL/SIL Crosswalk Table
  • LOTO Energy Source Reference
  • Emergency Stop Analysis
  • Risk Assessment Matrix/Risk Ranking
  • Category → PL Determination
  • MTTFd Calculator
  • SIL Verification (PFDavg)
  • Safety Scanner/Light Curtain Distance
  • …plus 6 more machine safety and functional safety tools.

Fluid Power Library

14 items

Hydraulic and pneumatic sizing calculators for cylinders, pumps, compressors, and system pressure/flow.

  • Hydraulic Cylinder Force & Speed Calculator
  • Pneumatic Cylinder Force Table
  • Hydraulic Pump Sizing
  • Hydraulic Accumulator Sizing
  • Compressor Sizing
  • Pneumatic Air Consumption
  • Pneumatic Line Pressure Drop
  • Hydraulic Power
  • …plus 6 more hydraulic and pneumatic sizing tools.

Computer & Digital Systems Library

12 items

Number systems, logic, and digital systems tools for engineers working close to firmware, PLC internals, and data acquisition.

  • Number Base Converter
  • Two's Complement Calculator
  • IEEE 754 Float Decoder
  • Boolean Logic Truth Table Generator
  • PLC Timer/Counter Preset Calculator
  • Ladder Logic ↔ Structured Text Reference
  • CPU Utilization Estimate
  • ADC Quantization & Theoretical SNR
  • …plus 4 more digital systems tools.

Manufacturing Engineering Library

7 items

Production rate, utilization, and throughput calculators for line and cell-level manufacturing analysis.

  • Takt Time Calculator
  • OEE Calculator
  • Production Rate & Capacity Analysis
  • Machine/Labor Utilization
  • Downtime Analysis (MTBF/MTTR)
  • Line Cycle Time, Bottleneck & Throughput
  • Scrap Rate & Rolled Throughput Yield

Process Engineering Library

6 items

Flow, thermal, and pressure-drop calculators for process piping and energy balance work.

  • Mass Flow/Volumetric Flow Converter
  • Tank Volume & Residence Time
  • Sensible Heat Transfer/Heating-Cooling Load
  • Process Energy Balance
  • Process Efficiency
  • Process Piping Pressure Drop

Quality Engineering Library

6 items

Process capability, measurement, and sampling calculators for statistical quality control.

  • Process Capability (Cp/Cpk/Pp/Ppk)
  • Sigma Level/DPMO
  • Measurement Uncertainty (GUM Method)
  • Gauge R&R (Average & Range Method)
  • Defect Rate & First Time Yield
  • Inspection Sampling/AQL Reference

Project Engineering Library

5 items

Cost, schedule, and financial calculators for scoping and tracking engineering projects.

  • Project Cost Estimate (Bottom-Up)
  • Resource Loading
  • Earned Value Management (EVM)
  • Burn Rate & Runway
  • ROI/NPV/IRR

Artificial Intelligence Library

6 items

Sizing and cost calculators for planning the compute, storage, and power behind AI/ML workloads.

  • GPU Memory Estimate
  • Inference Throughput
  • Model & Embedding Storage
  • Training Cost Estimate
  • AI Power Consumption
  • AI Infrastructure Sizing

Instrumentation Library

5 items

Loop scaling and sensor reference tables for field instrumentation and process signals.

  • 4-20mA Loop Scaling
  • ISA-5.1 Tag Letters Reference
  • Thermocouple Reference Tables
  • RTD Reference Tables
  • …plus 1 more instrumentation calculator.

Industrial Standards Library

6 items

Quick-reference lookup tables for common industrial standards and conventions.

  • NEMA Enclosure Rating Reference
  • Wire Color Code Reference
  • GD&T Symbol Reference
  • …plus 3 more standards/reference lookup tables.

Engineering Analysis

8 items

System-level analyzer tools that review a full design against best practices, not just a single calculation.

  • Control Panel Analyzer
  • Robot Cell Analyzer
  • Safety System Analyzer
  • PROFINET Network Analyzer
  • EtherNet/IP Network Analyzer
  • AS-i Network Analyzer
  • …plus 2 more system-level analyzer tools that review a full design against best practices, not just a single calculation.