Hi,
Our company does around 200 new unique products per year that require it's own mold for the first order. 

Once the mold is created sometimes we need to make several parts of it, but most of the times we only produce one part per each mold.
We need to store the mold with it's own reference and characteristics, even though they are very similar between them.

Should the molds be stored as a product? 
If we handle products and molds as individual unique products we would have around 2.000 references in our product list and growing at a rate of about 400 every year.

We've tried to use generic products and handle the extra data of each one during the manufacturing process, but it's difficult to work with it as the description of the product is not displayed on the work orders. We would like to access to each mold data.

Does Odoo have the ability to handle the molds as tools or they have to be listed as products? Is it a good idea to have a product list of around 2.000 references?
Should we have to filter them some how to improve the handling of such a big list?

Thanks,
Dani.