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| Hawaka:
Hello, At work we are currently developing a product that has around 10 different PCB inside it. As we have started to build full prototype for some time now,serial number are no more aligned (PCB sn!= product sn). We have products with different boards revisions, different modifications, some have been repaired, some not and so on. How do you guys keep track of what is where? The good old excel sheet(s) is showing it’s limit. Is there a good and easy tool for that kind of stuff? |
| daqq:
In my previous job we had an information system that kept track and generated serial numbers. Each device could have sub devices, so X, SN 5 could have components A, B, C, each with their own unique serial number. The generation of serial numbers was handled automatically, the assignment of assemblies was done manually, since it was a low volume system it was okay. So the final assembler would have components X SN 8, A SN 3, B SN 9 and C SN 10. He'd manually assign components A, B and C to X SN 8, but the SNs for X, A, B and C were generated automatically. The information system kept track of everything - it wasn't anything special, pretty basic really, in house hacked together, but it definitely was more than a spreadsheet. |
| SiliconWizard:
What's wrong with a database? |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 16, 2022, 09:47:44 pm ---What's wrong with a database? --- End quote --- Yeah but what database.. OP is looking for suggestions. |
| Wilksey:
Ah good old top level assembly problems! We had the same, multiple sub assemblies inside, we made our own "database" that was slow and shite! Done by some pleb in Access 2000, one piece of software you might want to take a look at is DBA Manufacturing. |
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