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Bunnie Huang (Xbox hacker, Chumby designer, etc etc) also has a good blog series about such things. Here's the first one in the series about making a real BOM
by beambot 13y ago
Bunnie Huang (Xbox hacker, Chumby designer, etc etc) also has a good blog series about such things. Here's the first one in the series about making a real BOM (it's more than just the parts!): http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2812 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2812
- robomartin 13y agoRight. And this real BOM is what I would call the absolute minimum requirement. Once you start thinking about revision, tracking, defect management, end-of-life management, costing, EDA integration, versioning and other real-world factors and needs of a hardware manufacturing operation a BOM becomes a crucial and far more complex document. There are a bunch of specialized software solutions dedicated to dealing with BOMs. Excel isn't a BOM management system.
- DanBC 13y agoGo careful though - some of those systems are kludged to fit on the end of accounting packages. Something that can do payroll, which has been extended to handle ordering, which has been extended to handle BOMs, is really suboptimal. I have experience of Sage line 50 / line 100. They were awful for the bits most of the company needed to do.