I manage a 7-person crew in two 4-hour blocks, and to keep pace I built a simple sheet that logs cut list completion times and yield by cutter at boning and trim; I’ll share it if it helps. For a live floor board, what are you using that pulls updates from a label scale/printer (we run a CAS CL5000) without locking us into an expensive subscription?
Pipe your “CAS CL5000” to Node‑RED on a Pi (no sub): https://nodered.org — then publish to a local board; Ethernet or serial?
We ended up pulling RS‑232 from a CL5000 into an ESP32 that publishes MQTT (or TCP if yours has Ethernet), with the scale set to ‘TX on print’ so only final weights hit the board. Also flip ‘stable only’ and match baud/parity (ours was 9600,7,E,1); otherwise you’ll get noisy ‘ST,GS’ bursts and double counts. Want the tiny parser we used to feed a local Grafana?
We avoided subscriptions by having the CL5000 print a GS1‑128 barcode with PLU + 3102 weight, then a cheap Android tablet with a BT scanner hits a local endpoint so each print updates the board… Small caveat: include a run ID or timestamp in the code so your ‘two 4-hour blocks’ don’t collide — want the label spec we used?
@jessica_b88’s phone video is gold; I add a thin “cheat strip” inside the jamb with three fixes and the battery info — “Add code: * # master 1,” “Keypad dark? tap logo/9V under cap,” “Jammed? hold lock to recalibrate,” plus install date (labels tweaked per model) — it’s like a fridge magnet for the lock… If stickers feel too on-the-nose, swap for a tiny NFC tag that opens the same notes. Want the PDF template?