Electronic Component Management

[twjtwj]

Can anyone recommend a good electronic component manager? I have a bunch of parts organized in bins, but would like something to keep track of the details.

For example:
- Lists all parts and where they are located (which bin, etc.)
- Also lists what the part is useful for (op amp, high output, etc.)
- Attach datasheets
- Search that will let you find a part by it's type, use, and other attributes (like audio, high output, volt range, etc.)
- Anything else I missed that you think would be useful

I ran across this (http://partkeepr.org/) but it runs off of PHP/MySQL (which I can do, but I'd rather have Windows).

Thanks.

[Sigmoid]

Yep filing the things has started to become a chore... I wonder how veterans do that...

[alm]

This has been discussed several times before, for example:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/software-project-component-inventory-manager/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/electrical-parts-inventorymanagement-system/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/what-do-you-use-to-manage-your-coponents-stash/

Running a PHP/MySQL stack on Windows should be quite easy using something like XAMPP.

[shebu18]

I've got partkeepr running under windows and also created a directory tree, added footprints, and added parts to it. until now every thing is great.

[Kohanbash]

Yep filing the things has started to become a chore... I wonder how veterans do that...

As a veteran who has a home lab and has a full electronics lab at work (we do R&D and not production), I can not say that we do it much better. We still have lots of draws with parts.

Our primary organization is that each cabinet has a category (passives, connectors, etc..) and each draw has a label with what is in it.
Within each draw each compartment has a label with what is in it as well as the part number so we can order more when the compartment gets empty.