Live Bird Weighing (LBW)
LBW is designed for poultry processing plants and facilitates the weighing process for rendering and finished product trucks and enforces an allowed variance amount before printing a BOL for the outgoing trucks.
CAT Squared’s Live Bird Weighing (LBW) manufacturing software application allows scale house operators to capture weights directly from truck scales and record live haul information including times, growers, crews, truck, trailer, driver, catch count, and other observations for each load. As trucks are received, the kill schedule is updated, and lots are created for tracking the birds through the live hang queue, on-line inspection, and pre-chill processes.
Benefits
- Captures live incoming and yard shrink weights to initiate yield analysis and improve processing performance.
- Provides real-time updates on truck arrivals, weights, and lots, ensuring seamless coordination across departments.
- Enhances traceability with lot tracking and USDA compliance.
- Reduces errors and labor costs by automating data capture and enforcing weight variances.
- Integrates with grower systems and existing scales for accurate, efficient operations.
Features
- Integrates with grower systems for settlements
- Integrates with existing truck scales
- Records farm statistics such as grower, house, and feed withdraw time
- Records information on weather conditions, trucks, trailers, drivers, and catch crews
- Assigns lot numbers for traceability through first processing
- Can weigh other incoming trucks and outgoing finished-product trucks to validate against expected weight ranges
- Adheres to all guidelines set by the USDA Packers and Stockyards Program
- Is part of a complete manufacturing software solution for poultry processors
