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How critical is it to declare the manufacturer part number for a component within the BOM?

I've never seen a BOM that explicitly declares manufacturer part numbers for the components (except the obvious ones, like a microcontroller) in any kind of circuit schematics. According to my ...
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Quantity less than one on Altium BOM

There are some items that goes on the BOM that, in production, apear as 1 for many. Example: large card box to package 10 boards/products. These kinds of items apear on the BOM as less than one ...
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Estimating Assembly costs II

This is a continuation of Estimating Assembly Cost which has addressed some approximations in estimating between North American and Asian assembly houses as price per pin. The question does not ...
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Reduce BOM Lines or reduce BOM cost? How to make production cheaper? [closed]

We are designing a product that will hopefully sell many thousand units, and now I am at the stage of specifying what parts to use. We require three inter-board connectors, one with 10contacts and ...
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