Glossary

Product The finished item you sell or produce.

Component A physical part used to build one or more Products. A Component may be shared by multiple Products — see Products, Components & BOM.

BOM (Bill of Materials) The list of Components a Product needs, and how many of each.

Per product ×N The quantity of a given Component required per finished Product, as defined by that Product’s BOM.

Production Profile Describes how one Component is manufactured: compatible printer, yield, print file, materials, print time, and plates. A Component can have multiple Production Profiles. See Production Profiles.

Production Combination An Automatic-mode combination of active, compatible Production Profiles — one per Component — across a Product’s BOM, worked out fresh each time you create a Production Order. If exactly one combination is compatible, it’s used automatically; if more than one is compatible, you choose. Not saved as a template, and not the same thing as a Product Production Recipe. See Production Orders.

Product Production Recipe A saved, named, whole-Product production template — a reusable combination of exact Production Profile (and Plate) choices across a Product’s entire BOM at once, saved from the Product page. Explicitly selecting one while creating a Production Order makes it strict order intent: SpoolIQ uses exactly the Profiles/Plates it specifies and does not silently substitute another one. It records order/template intent, not execution — see “Print Job” below for what actually proves something was printed. See Production Orders.

Yield How many units one print run of a Production Profile produces.

Production Order Represents demand for a quantity of a Product. Breaks down into demand for the Components that Product’s BOM requires. Produced either Automatically (SpoolIQ works out a compatible Production Combination) or from an explicitly selected Product Production Recipe (strict intent). Either way, does not permanently commit to a specific Production Profile until a concrete Print Job exists — see Production Orders.

Print Job A concrete, scheduled or started print of a specific Production Profile — the actual execution record. This is the single source of truth for what was actually printed, on which printer, with which materials: the point at which a Production Order’s demand (Automatic or from a saved Recipe) becomes committed to one particular way of manufacturing a Component. Selecting a Product Production Recipe records intent; it does not, by itself, create or stand in for Print Job history.

Archived A reversible state (for Components, Production Profiles, and Products) that preserves history and data while removing something from being selectable for new use. Archiving never deletes the underlying record.

Reactivate Restores an archived Component or Production Profile to active use. Does not create a duplicate — it’s the same record, made available again.

Spool A physical roll of filament tracked as inventory. See Inventory & Spools.

Tare weight The weight of the empty spool on its own, without any filament. Optional: a spool registered without a tare is treated as having a tare of 0. See Inventory & Spools.

Usable (net) filament weight The filament actually on a spool: its gross weight (what the scale shows) minus its tare. See Inventory & Spools.

Filament cost per gram A spool’s purchase price divided by the usable filament it held when new — the tare carries no cost. Used for print job costs, cost estimates, and inventory value. See Inventory & Spools.

Printer compatibility The compatible printer model assigned to a Production Profile. Enforced as a hard constraint: production cannot start on an incompatible printer, whether that Profile came from Automatic mode or a saved Recipe’s strict intent. See Production Orders.

Retired (printer) A terminal state for a printer with real history, or one whose original purchase can no longer be corrected. Unlike Archived above, retirement is not reversible — a retired printer stays retired, read-only, and stops receiving new production, while its history remains fully preserved. See Printers & Workshop Equipment.

AMS / expansion unit A detachable printer accessory, tracked as its own physical workshop asset independent of any one printer. Always enters the workshop through a Purchase; a printer only ever associates an existing available unit. See Printers & Workshop Equipment.

Warranty replacement A new physical printer registered against one retired as “Returned under warranty.” It starts its own history and creates no second purchase — the original printer and its history stay exactly as they were. See Printers & Workshop Equipment.

Workshop Purchases The Finance figure for actual workshop acquisitions (filament, extras, printers, AMS/accessories), sourced from Purchases. Not subtracted from Operating Profit. Voided purchases don’t count. See Finance & Accounting.

Voided purchase A purchase entered by mistake and cancelled with Void: the items it registered are removed from stock, while the purchase stays in the history with its reference and original values, marked Voided. It no longer counts in Finance, can’t be edited, and its number is never reused. See Registering Purchases.

Equipment Sale Income The amount received when a printer is retired as “Sold.” Separate from Gross Revenue; improves Period Result. See Finance & Accounting.

Period Result Operating Profit minus Workshop Purchases plus Equipment Sale Income — an overall business-performance figure, not a formal accounting statement. See Finance & Accounting.