

I have written (Builder) our "production program’. I think you are asking for much more professional solutions than we use but few words that may be you will find being helpful. We also do our products in small batches of 50-100 products, and also have them manufactured by contract manufacturer. I would also prefer Free/Opensource alternative but I do not mind paying a few bucks… So the best would be a wiki which is not good for grouping/filtering… It seems to focus more on the manufacturing process… Another option would be to use Redmine as we are already using it as project tracker but so far I did not find any plugin that would be much better than spreadsheet.

I’ve seen in these forums and even it looks like a great tool I am not sure if it can do what I need. So I would like to use something more suited for the task. So far I’ve been using spreadsheet and it has been functional but it is too cumbersome. Tags or any means of grouping and filtering (by project, by state, by tests)Ĭomments for every item to be able to have a history for every item I would like to see where is every board, which tests did it pass, what software is uploaded into it, if it is considered a prototype or finished product, etc…Ĭustom defined fields (for tests and finishing tasks needed) So basically I need to have more overview about steps 3 and 4. We distribute the boards to different people - mechanical person, design person, install them for our customers… Some boards may also need some finishing tasks (i.e. We also upload proper programs into MCUs and others. Now we perform a bunch of tests on every board to see if every component is working. What I need is a way how to better organize the process of testing prototypes and final products (we do small batches of 50-100 final products).īoards arrive from a manufacturer - they can be fully assembled or may need some work I am looking for a simple prototype inventory/management system.
