Best way to organize SMD components?

Dylan Brophy wrote 06/09/2023 at 17:59 -3 points

I've been building SMD circuits for a few years now, and I've accumulated a LOT of bags of SMD components.  It's becoming an issue that the parts take up a lot more space than I'd like, and finding the exact part I'm looking for can take a while flipping through bags.

There's obvious things I can do, like have separate places for resistors vs capacitors vs ICs, etc.  But I also have components divided by project and ownership - many parts I have belong to my company, and are stored in different boxes depending on the board they go with.

**I know many of you probably have great, established systems for these things, probably with a lot of tips and tricks you learned over decades, to organize this stuff.  What is your advice?**

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