Workshop Organizer - inventory controller for home-workshops

Workshop Organizer is light-weight, cross platform inventory controller for home-workshops. This application is specifically design to manage electronic/electrical components at home-workshops, but it can use to manage other areas of workshop including tools, machinery and mechanical components, etc.

To store data, this application use SQLite database system and all the necessary runtime libraries for SQLite is available with the “Workshop Organizer” package. User may not need to download or install separate SQLite database system to use this application. Workshop Organizer default SQLite database consist with more than 600 reference data including list of manufacturers and types.

Workshop Organizer 1.0 on Windows 8.1 operating system

“Workshop Organizer” is a native mode application and user may not need to install any framework to use this application and compiled binaries are available for both Linux and Windows operating systems.

All the project source codes and compiled binary packages are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/workshoporg. To get more information check Workshop Organizer homepage.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Nice tool. I plan to continue to use this - just what I needed. I really like that it will link to the part datasheets (which I store locally). I haven't found one with these features that are easy to use. No install is a bonus too!

I have a few suggestions for improvements:

1. Hide the reference field on all screens.
2. Remove prompt for "Are you sure do you want to view all records?" (F3)
3. Add prompt for "Are you sure you want to remove this entry?" (F7)
4. Add field for voltage range of the part. Vlow = and Vhigh =
Right now I put these values into the notes field, but that can't be searched.
5. Add field for package (DIP, SSOP, SOIC, QFN, TO-92, etc).
6. Add field for number of pins.
7. Add field for the speed of the part.
7. Add user defined fields. I'd use some as "checkboxes" for feature presence such as "Low Power" or "USB Interface" and may use some for interface speed or voltage range.

Again - very nice tool and I plan to continue to use it. Thank you!

May 22, 2014 at 1:10 AM

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