Manufacturing normally assigns the serial numbers to each product.Īs companies grow, they may decide to build products in the same family in more than one plant.
They are usually assigned in sequence per product or product family. The serial number is sometimes used only for warranty control and sometimes used for both warranty control and for version control. Watts, in Engineering Documentation Control Handbook, 2012 Serial NumbersĪ serial number (SN) is a number assigned to each individual product in order to distinguish that product from all others.
