Glossary
Centre
A centre is where work happens — a shed, machine, bench, or crew. Centres have a daily capacity (hours/day) and are the planning buckets you see in Centre Schedule and Capacity Planning.
Example: Cutting Shed (16h/day) with workstations like CNC Router 1 and Panel Saw.
Workstation
A workstation is the specific station a task is assigned to. Workstations roll up into centres.
Example: CNC Router 1 is a workstation mapped to the Cutting Shed centre.
For manual scheduling, tasks need a workstation (mapped to a centre) to show up on Centre Schedule.
Job
The customer job you're delivering (typically planned around a target/install date).
Task
A unit of work. Tasks can be scheduled to a day, assigned to a workstation (which determines the centre), and tracked through statuses.
Production task
Hands-on work tasks that move the job forward on the floor.
Step template
An account-specific "standard operating procedure" template you define for repeatable work. In settings, the user-facing workshop UI is now Task Checklists (still backed by Step Templates).
Task steps (checklist)
The checklist items on a task (often copied from step templates) used to run work consistently.
Create Job
A fast job intake flow designed for shops that estimate in CAD + spreadsheets, then enter rough hours in Cabneo.
Create Job saves the job, stores the labour estimate, and creates draft planning tasks from those labour estimate buckets, with no scheduled day assigned.
Backlog (draft tasks)
In this flow, "backlog" means draft tasks exist but are still unscheduled (no scheduled day).
You schedule them later from Job Management (Schedule tasks), Centre Schedule, or Triage.
Labour Estimate Buckets
The "rough hours" buckets in Create Job (Machining, Edging, Assembly, Install).
Schedule from
The not-before date in the Job Management Schedule tasks panel. Cabneo places work on or after this date, based on current centre capacity.
Placement preview
A no-write preview in the Job Management Schedule tasks panel showing earliest/latest landing dates, affected centres, and stage-level placement rows with warnings/provenance.
Centre Schedule
The visual calendar for scheduling tasks across centres. Supports month and week views, drag-and-drop scheduling, and quick crew assignment from an event popover. The primary scheduling surface for manual workflows.
Capacity Planning
The view that shows how booked each centre is across days, so you can spot overload early.
Committed day bars/heatmap are scheduled-only. Unscheduled demand is shown separately.
Run Sheet (Centre Day)
A drill-down for a specific centre + day that shows the tasks driving the booked hours, grouped by job.
Run Sheet rows are scheduled-only execution truth.
Workshop List
The task find-and-update view in Workshop. Use it to search/filter tasks across dates, open task details from a row, and make quick updates (including one-click complete for open work).
In the default Open view, Cabneo shows pending, in-progress, and on-hold tasks. List is not the execution queue. Today (Run Sheet) remains the centre/day execution truth.
Unscheduled demand
Open tasks with estimated time that are not yet assigned to a day. Shown separately from committed capacity.
Unmapped demand
Unscheduled demand that cannot roll up to a centre because workstation/centre mapping is missing.
Target date
The job's install or commitment date — the deadline you're working backwards from when scheduling.
Reschedule
A job-level operation to move the target/install date. Cabneo shows a preview of affected tasks with capacity warnings, then shifts eligible tasks by working days on confirm.
Readiness gates
Per-job truth flags — materials ready, client confirmed, site ready — that let you track whether a job is actually ready to proceed. Toggling a gate logs a schedule change for auditability.
Schedule Changes
A real-time feed on the owner dashboard showing recent reschedules and readiness gate changes (last 24 hours), so you can see why dates moved.
Triage
The scheduling inbox for work that needs a date decision (unscheduled or slipped).