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shanekent:
Hi All -

Over the years I've ended up with hundreds of individual component baggies from my various orders at Digi-Key and Mouser.   Here is just a random picture I found online that shows the types of bags that I'm talking about:


I've always struggled with an easily expandable and controllable system for organizing and controlling this stock of components.   At the moment I just have a bin that I have all of the baggies lined up in with a very simple categorization: resistors, capacitors, ICs, diodes, so on and so forth...   This works, but I still have to spend a fairly decent amount of time going through and looking for the components that I think I have when I need them.   I don't have the space nor the interest in putting each of these baggies in draws of component shelfs, so that's off the table for me.    I've also tried to implement a basic Excel spreadsheet for keeping track of quantities of each component that I have, but that grows to be a huge task to manage in it's own right. 

I'm interested to hear what the many bright minds on this forum have done to organize their personal (or professional) stocks of components. I don't have a ton of space, so I'm hopeful that others have found nice and compact solutions to this problem.    In the same vein, has anyone found an inventory management system that is relatively high quality, free/low cost, and easy to implement?  I'm hopeful that there is a solution above Excel, but below industry level solutions that have a decent user interface. It would be a major win if the solution were to run on my local machine as opposed to some cloud based solution, but that isn't hugely important.  I used Bomist in the past, but I found it pretty clunky at the time...

Anyways, sorry for the long winded post.   Looking forward to hearing what everyone else has done to solve this problem!

-Shane
thm_w:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/best-toolbox-for-electronics/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/smd-component-storage/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/parts-organization/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/parts-bin-recommendation/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/smd-passive-kits/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/wentai-fake/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/how-do-you-storeorganise-smd-components-(or-small-components-in-general)/

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/electronic-parts-management-software/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/manufacture/basic-software-for-keeping-track-of-component-inventory-levels/
shanekent:
Thank you very much.   

Hopefully others will find this compiled list as useful as I do.

-S
Zero999:
I store my resistors in cases, sorted by different values. I keep a stock of all of the E24 values from 10Ohm to 1M and E12 values from 1Ohm to 10Ohm and 1M to 10M. I also have a few other values <1Ohm and >10M.

shanekent:
Those are nice little boxes!  Where did you get those from?

-S
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