2. Core Concepts
A handful of ideas underpin everything in Roasthubs. Once these click, every screen makes sense. Read this section before diving into the feature areas.
- Zones — the stages coffee moves through
- Lots — the smallest traceable unit of coffee
- Cells — where coffee is stored
- Recipes & coffees — transformation blueprints
- Plant nodes & tracks — your equipment, modelled
- Productions — planned work
The big picture
Coffee enters as green beans, is transformed through zones by following recipes, is stored in cells, and is tracked at every step as lots. Your physical equipment is modelled as plant nodes, and every movement of coffee is recorded as a track. Work is scheduled as productions.
| Concept | One-line definition |
|---|---|
| Zone | A stage of processing: green → roast → grind → pack |
| Lot | The smallest tracked unit of coffee, with a unique ID tag |
| Cell | A storage buffer holding one recipe at a time, FIFO |
| Recipe | A definition of a coffee/blend and the rule to make it |
| Plant node | A piece of equipment on the plant map |
| Track | A record of coffee moving between two nodes |
| Production | A scheduled job to make a recipe on a machine |
Continue to Zones →.