Lean Libraries

Parts was designed to support lean libraries.

Lean libraries 

Lean libraries promote efficient use of existing inventory and reuse of parts that have been used in prior designs.

Reducing the total number of parts required to build the products in your company's profolio can significantly reduce cost and increase profit margins.

Re-using the same parts when possible allows purchasing to buy larger volumes of common inventory at reduced pricing.

Using lean libraries reduces the workload required to create libraries.

Large  libraries

Large libraries can have a negative impact on the overall performance of a CAD tool.  

Large libraries have slower searches and updates.

80% of the parts in large libraries may never be used.

Using the import and export features in Parts users can quickly build large libraries, if desired.

Parts is scalable

Users can create multiple databases, then quickly connect to the databases using the same Part's Frontend application which has a common interface to the backend databases.

Distributing large libraries across multiple backend databases can improve performance.

Examples: Create backend databases like:

Resistors_0402, Resistors_0603, Resistors_0805 

Capacitors_0402, Capacitors_0603, Capacitors_0805.

etc . . . 

Typically resistors and capacitors will make up the majority of parts in your library.

Adding another resistor or capacitor to the Parts database only takes a few seconds, which promotes the use of lean libraries. 

Creating parts as needed and Just In Time (JIT) is simple in Parts.

Most users (including me) prefer to create a single database. And create parts as they are needed. Parts was designed to support both large and lean libraries.

During the past five years I have released 100+ designs using a 2000 part library.

The Parts database can easily handle 15K+ components and support multiple users. The upper limit is based on the 2GB limit for 32bit Access databases. 

Make Like

Part's 'Make Like' feature allows users to quickly and easily add Capacitors, Inductors and Resistors to an existing library as needed.

Using 'Make Like' users can to create new parts with a high level of confidence that the symbols and footprints are correct.

That's It !