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Re: Team 254 Open-Source Release: Cheesy Parts

254

Thanks for posting this. Its obvious that a lot of effort went into the development of this system. I've just finally gotten around to playing around with the working demo and am very impressed. While tinkering I came up with a few questions:
  • How do you integrate this with your purchasing group to procure all the raw materials and parts? It looks like some of the parts just have descriptions while some add a part number and/or manufacturer name. How does the person purchasing know what to order and where from?
  • Who is in charge of setting up new parts, choosing when to group things into a subassembly, what to name something, etc?
  • Who keeps this updated throughout the season? Is it one single person, a group? Is it updated hourly, daily, weekly?
  • Did this system solve the issues you were attempting to address?

My team tends to run pretty lean, and often the same mentors aren't there on consecutive nights. When that happens things slow down as we try to figure out what needs to happen next. A system like this could really help us keep things more focused from night to night. I'm curious to learn more about how you used it and how well it worked.