The Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms maintained by the Department of Defense defines a part number as a "combination of numbers, letters, and symbols assigned by a designer, a manufacturer, ...

Back in the late '60s, some people in the trucking business got together and decided to come up with a system that used numbers to describe parts and maintenance activities Phillips Industries’ new ...

Even when we share the design files for open source hardware, the step between digital files and a real-world mechatronics widget is still a big one. That’s why I set off on a personal vendetta to ...