This was made as a prototype of an application, but is somehow usable (I'm using it at the moment).

prerequisites:
o an sql database (e.g. mysql)
o the Gambas Basic IDE
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/

What's it for?
If you have a small shop, where you're doing some kind of production (e.g. mounting bicycles from single parts), this may be of interest for you.

You can group every item to build a new item (like an assembly). (yes you can do recursions theoretically)

The costs and weights are automatically summed up (very useful for me)

If you have graphviz
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/
installed you can display a nice graph visualizing the assembly order.

If you have Latex installed, it gives you nice reports including the components of an assembly.

regards,
Thomas