An Optimal Part Numbering System

Dear Engineers,

Hope the most of you have an engineering job and every day you involved in the Part Numbering system of Company you work for. I think you find some defects of those system you use and want to improve it.

I have the same situation. Our present part numbering system in the Company I work for has too much defects and every body want to change it but nobody knows which way to do it. The main problem that we have in present part numbering system - impossibility to find modifications of components. Every modified detail has complete different part number and it is impossible to say how many modifications we done for one detail. This system makes huge difficulties for service department. I try to get the most information I can and after that to generate the optimal part numbering system for our Company and its main product - cooling system for refrigerators.

Please share your part numbering system arrangement to find an optimal variant for my Company. I suppose it would be useful for some other people they interested in it.

Thank you in advance.

Kind Regards, Vadim