Glossary & Legends

Reference

Glossary & Legends

The reference page for the Production & Manufacturing module: every term and abbreviation you will meet, plus the exact status vocabularies and the colour each badge uses. When you see an unfamiliar word or a coloured chip anywhere in the guide, look it up here.

Glossary — A to F

Domain terms and abbreviations, alphabetically. Terms are lower-cased for sorting but keep their usual capitalisation in the definition.

Actual Cost

What a production run really cost — actual material, labour, machine, overhead, plus scrap and rework — captured per order and compared against the standard cost to produce a variance. See Production Costing.

Approval Status (BOM)

In the Advanced BOM, the approval decision (pending / approved / rejected) kept separate from the publication status. A BOM can be draft while its approval is still pending.

Batch / Lot

Identifiers of a specific run of material or product, used for traceability. Recorded as batch_number / lot_number on work orders, inspections, NCRs, and material issues. A lot links a finished item back to the raw materials it was made from.

Bill of Materials (BOM)

The recipe for a finished good: a header (finished item + output quantity + unit + status) plus component lines and routing operations. Also called a formula in process/batch industries. See Bill of Materials.

BOM Component

One raw-material line of a BOM — an item, a quantity, and a unit needed to make the BOM's output quantity. May carry a scrap %.

Capacity per Hour

How many units a work center can process in one hour. Master data on the work center; informational (no scheduling logic runs off it in the base module).

CAPA (Corrective & Preventive Action)

A managed action program to fix a quality problem's root cause (corrective) and stop it recurring (preventive), usually raised from an NCR. Tracks assignment, action plan, verification, and closure. See Quality Control.

Compliance Document

A Philippine regulatory permit or certificate (DTI, BIR, DOLE, FDA, DENR, ISO, or other) with issue and expiry dates and renewal alerts. See Compliance Documents.

Component

A raw material or sub-assembly consumed to make a finished good. On a Manufacturing Order the components are a snapshot of the BOM, each with a Required and Consumed quantity.

Cost per Hour

The operating cost of a work center for one hour, used to cost the operations that run there.

Disposition

The decision on non-conforming material recorded on an NCR: scrap, rework, use_as_is, or return_to_supplier. Recording a disposition does not move stock — adjust inventory separately.

Downtime

A period a work center was not producing — categorised as breakdown, maintenance, setup, material shortage, or other — with duration and (optionally) cost. Part of Advanced Manufacturing.

ECO (Engineering Change Order)

A formal, auditable request to change a BOM — new, revision, or obsolete — with a review/approval/implementation workflow. The ECO authorises the change; the actual BOM edit is done separately. See Engineering Changes.

Finished Good

The product a BOM or Manufacturing Order produces. Must exist as an Inventory Item with a default variant before its output can be stocked.

Flow (+ / −)

The direction of a stock movement written to item_inventories when a Manufacturing Order completes: + adds stock (finished good produced), − removes stock (component consumed). See Inventory Movement.

Glossary — G to N

Inspection

An actual quality-check event run against a QC Plan, recording quantities inspected/passed/failed, a status, and an overall result. Holds one measurement per parameter.

Inventory Movement

A row in the core item_inventories ledger recording a change to on-hand stock, with a flow of + or −, a quantity, a unit, and a link back to the Manufacturing Order. Written only when an order is marked Done.

Labor Tracking

Recording labour time against an order/operation/employee — clock in/out, hours worked, labour type (direct / indirect / setup / rework), hourly rate, and computed cost. See Labor Tracking.

Lead Time

The time from starting/ordering to availability. Considered per component in planning; part of the broader MRP vision rather than a shipped field in the base module.

Manufacturing Order (MO)

A single production run against a BOM. Has planned vs produced quantities, scheduling dates, an optional work center, an auto reference (e.g. MO-00001), and the lifecycle draft → confirmed → in_progress → done (or cancelled). See Manufacturing Orders.

Material Issue

A record that a material was physically handed out / consumed against a work order — quantity, lot, unit cost, total cost, and who issued it. A consumption/costing log only; it does not deduct inventory. See Material Requisitions.

Material Requisition

A request document listing the materials a work order needs, with line items and an approval step. Moves draft → approved (further states exist as labels but are set manually).

Measurement

The recorded value for one QC parameter during an inspection. Pass/fail is computed automatically against the parameter's Min/Max spec (below Min or above Max = fail).

MO Component

A per-order line of required material, copied from the BOM (scaled to the planned quantity) when the order is confirmed. Tracks quantity_required vs quantity_consumed.

MPS (Master Production Schedule)

A high-level weekly/monthly production plan built from orders, forecasts, and inventory targets. A planned-vision feature (not shipped in the base module).

MRP (Material Requirements Planning)

Automatic calculation of material requirements by exploding BOMs against the schedule and current stock, generating purchase requisitions. A planned-vision feature.

NCR (Non-Conformance Report)

A record of a quality defect on a product/order — defect type, severity, root cause, and disposition — that can feed one or more CAPAs.

Glossary — O to Z

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)

A composite equipment-utilisation KPI combining availability, performance, and quality. A reporting/vision metric, not a stored field in the base module.

Operation / Routing Step

One ordered manufacturing step (e.g. Cutting, Assembly) performed at a work center, with a sequence and a duration. The ordered set of operations is the routing.

Priority

Scheduling urgency. Base MOs use Low / Normal / High (default Normal). Advanced Work Orders add Urgent; ECOs and CAPAs use Low / Medium / High / Critical. Informational — no capacity logic runs off it in the base module.

QC Parameter

A single measurable characteristic under a QC Plan (a dimension, a visual check, etc.) with a target, Min, Max, unit, and an optional critical flag. Type is measurement / visual / attribute / functional.

QC Plan

A reusable inspection template tied to an inspection type/stage and sampling method. Parameters hang off it; inspections are run against it.

Raw Material

An input item consumed by a BOM/order. Like any Item it needs a default variant to bear stock.

Requisition

Short for Material Requisition — a request for materials for a work order.

Routing

The ordered sequence of operations (steps at work centers) that produces a finished good. Stored as the BOM's operations and shown read-only on a Manufacturing Order.

Scrap / Scrap Percentage

Material lost in production. A BOM component's scrap_percentage is an expected waste factor; work orders and NCRs also record actual scrap quantities and costs.

Snapshot

The one-time copy of BOM components onto a Manufacturing Order at Confirm, scaled to the planned quantity, so later BOM edits never rewrite production history. To reflect a recipe change on a confirmed order, create a new order.

SPC (Statistical Process Control)

Statistical charting of process measurements to spot variation trends. A planned reporting/ quality feature.

Standard Cost

The expected material/labour/machine/overhead cost of a product, rolled up from the BOM. The baseline for variance analysis.

Stock Posted

A 0/1 flag on a Manufacturing Order marking that its inventory movements have already been written, so completing again cannot double-post. Set to 1 on Done; never clear it manually.

UoM (Unit of Measure)

The unit a quantity is expressed in — piece, kg, litre, meter, hour, etc. The base module reads core units; Advanced Manufacturing has its own manufacturing_uom with conversion factors and a base-unit hierarchy (type length / weight / volume / quantity / time / area).

Variance (favorable / unfavorable)

The difference between standard and actual cost. Favorable means actual came in under standard; unfavorable means it ran over. Expressed as an amount and a percentage.

WIP (Work-in-Process)

Inventory value tied up in partially completed orders — material and labour committed but not yet finished goods.

Work Center

A production resource — machine, labour station, assembly line, inspection, or packaging station — where operations run. Carries a capacity/hour and cost/hour. See Work Centers.

Work Order (WO)

The Advanced-Manufacturing equivalent of an MO, stored in manufacturing_work_orders (renamed to avoid colliding with the base MO). Numbered with a WO- prefix; carries ordered/produced/scrapped quantities and lot/batch numbers. Lifecycle draft → released → in_progress → completed (or cancelled).

Yield

Usable output relative to input. Theoretical vs actual yield with variance thresholds is a batch-record / regulated-profile concept; first-pass yield is a quality KPI.

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Legends & status colours

Each status set below is shown two ways: a lifecycle (states left to right, with the success end in green and cancel/fail ends in red) and a legend of the coloured badges. The colours are consistent across the guide:

Manufacturing Order status

The base-module MO lifecycle. Status is plain text enforced by the controller, not a database enum.

Manufacturing Order priority

The base MO form offers three priorities (default Normal). Informational only.

Work Order status (Advanced)

The Advanced-Manufacturing Work Order (manufacturing_work_orders) — a true database enum. Note released ≈ the MO's confirmed, and completed ≈ the MO's done.

Work Order priority is a four-value enum:

QC Inspection — status & result

An inspection carries a status (its workflow) and, when finished, an overall result (the verdict). Both are chosen manually — there are no enforced transitions.

Inspection status (pending / in_progress / passed / failed / conditional):

Overall result (pass / fail / conditional) and per-parameter measurement result (pass / fail / na). A measurement is pass unless the value is below Min or above Max:

QC Plan — type, sampling, parameter

An inspection plan's inspection type says where in the flow it is used:

Plan status, sampling method, and parameter flags:

Parameter type: measurement · visual · attribute · functional. (Only Min/Max drive the automatic pass/fail check.)

NCR — status & severity

A Non-Conformance Report's lifecycle (statuses are free-set — no enforced guard):

Severity (minor / major / critical, default major):

Disposition — the decision on affected material (scrap / rework / use_as_is / return_to_supplier). No stock moves on any disposition; adjust inventory separately. See Quality Control.

CAPA — status, type & priority

A Corrective & Preventive Action's lifecycle (statuses are free-set):

Type: corrective (fix the current problem) · preventive (prevent recurrence). Priority (low / medium / high / critical, default medium):

Material Requisition status

The full enum (draft / submitted / approved / issued / partial / completed / cancelled). Only Draft → Approved is wired via the Approve action; the other states exist as valid labels/filters but are set manually.

ECO status, change type & priority

The Engineering Change Order workflow (draft / submitted / under_review / approved / rejected / implemented):

Change type: new (introduce a BOM) · revision (modify) · obsolete (retire). Priority (low / medium / high / critical, default medium):

Compliance Document status

Regulatory permits track validity toward expiry (active / pending_renewal / expired / suspended):

Document type: dti_registration · bir_permit · dole_certificate · fda_license · denr_permit · iso_certificate · other. Renewal alerts fire ahead of expiry (default 30 days before). See Compliance Documents.

BOM & Work Center — active / inactive

In the base module, BOMs and Work Centers use a plain-text status defaulting to active.

The Advanced BOM header adds a richer publication status (draft / pending_approval / approved / obsolete) alongside a separate approval status:

Other enumerations

Advanced-Manufacturing tables define several more classifying enums. These are types/categories, not workflow states, so they are shown as plain badges.

Order operation status

Downtime

Downtime type: breakdown · maintenance · setup · material_shortage · other.

Classification enums (types, not statuses)

Compliance alert tiers (dashboards)

The compliance dashboard uses a traffic-light convention independent of a record's stored status:

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