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.

Hard-cap placement

When a stage cannot fit under the 90% soft buffer but can still fit within daily capacity (<= 100%), Cabneo can place it with an overbook warning.

Auto-span

When a stage is larger than one day of centre capacity, Cabneo can schedule it across multiple days by setting both scheduled_date and scheduled_end_date.

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. Clicking empty space in a day opens Run Sheet for that date. In All Centres, that becomes the all-centres Run Sheet for the selected day. Dispatch remains available as a secondary crew/day surface. Centre Schedule is the primary scheduling surface for manual workflows.

Dispatch

The secondary crew/day planning surface for assigned work. Dispatch answers "who is doing this, and when?" after Run Sheet and Centre Schedule answer "what is planned where, and on which day?"

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

A date-based execution surface that shows the tasks driving booked hours, grouped by job. Run Sheet can open as a specific centre/day drill-down or as an all-centres day scan.

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. 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 customer-facing date the workshop plan is organised around.

Change install date

A job-level operation to move the target/install date. Cabneo first shows an advisory calendar, then a preview of affected tasks and capacity warnings. On confirm, eligible tasks shift by working days.

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 install-date changes 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).