DJ Delorie wrote: > I'm gearing up to populate a bunch of powermeter boards, plus the > sdram board, and got the biggest digikey box I've ever gotten. This > time, it was cost effective to by reels of two of the parts, and many > parts were ordered at the next price-point up (10 is cheaper than 9 > sometimes - I've got a TUBE of ethernet jacks now), so I'll have > leftovers. > > How do people manage their parts inventories, so they know what > they've got? > > I've tried several ways, including writing programs and perl scripts but I find a simple spreadsheet works for me. I keep the basic part specs, mfg part number, supplier part numbers (DigiKey, Mouser mostly), last order price, qty on hand and location. Location is just a storage box number. I keep the parts in their original packages. Almost all of my parts, except some connectors, are SMT. I'm a little lazy about keeping qty on hand updated so I usually inventory when I start a new project. I dont really worry about qty for resistors, I just by 500, 1K or 5K qty.
I keep the pdf data sheets in a directory with a sub-directory for each manufacturer. -- Joe Chisolm Computer Translations, Inc. Marble Falls, Tx. 830-265-8018 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user