Wow, my method is separate piles and lots of cans/boxes to rummage through when I'm bored. Nice set up Brent.
Thanks Dennis but much of my inspiration came from fellow Fordbarner Will Cronkrite who IMO wrote the book on how to be organized in the shop. His NASCAR racing career mindset & ideas spill into the way I chose to organize my stuff. I just quickly took some crappy pix with my cell phone, so excuse the quality but it does show a little more about how we do things in the shop.
I mentioned having a parts room for finished/restored parts, each of these row of shelves is a particular customer's project. Our Assembly Shop is set-up to work on 8 projects at once, and there are 8 rows of shelves in this room.
Our new parts room is kinda messy right now with post-it notes everywhere as we are doing inventory and re-organizing boxes but I think you get the jest. We also use 3 different sizes of bin boxes to inventory new parts. If you look closely at the pictures, you will see they are in chronological order by Ford part number, and also we have the Brattons & Snyders part number on the label as a cross-reference.
In addition to organization of parts, we also have tried to do the same thing with tools. We have an Assembly Room where sub-component assembly takes place before it is shelved or installed. One thing that Will taught me, is that you need all of your tools and fixtures for each task in a centralized place. What I did is put three tool boxes together to make a work bench, and then each drawer (-or drawers) has everything necessary to do that task. Each of the drawers are set-up with hand-tools, fixtures, etc. to do a specific job. Even though in the top center of the workbench is a complete set of sockets, ratchets, etc., in each drawer is another socket or wrench that is specifically dedicated to rebuilding/assembling that item.
...and even dedicated shelves for items that won't necessarily be used in the Assembly Room, but they have a box with a label that has everything that would be needed for that task. For example, there is one box there that is labeled Radiator Shell, and it has scissors, an awl, the split rivet tool, the emblem remover that Tom Wesenberg made for me, tape, clothes pins, and probably another item or two that I am forgetting. This way, all someone needs to do is retrieve the black tote from the shelf and walk to the workbench or the vehicle and know they have everything needed to do the task. This really helps on time efficiency.
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I realize this is way off track from what this thread started for, but maybe it will help someone in some way. 
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