# Shift & Crew Communication Board > A free warehouse shift and crew communication board. Today's priorities, who's on the floor, a crew shoutout and the break schedule, timed to your shifts. Source: https://channelos.tv/t/shift-crew-communication-board-eddb6fd1-ebcf-4c4d-847d-5d61ab07c2f3 Category: Office & lobby Shape: 16:9 (landscape) Slides: 7 Author: ChannelOS (official) Price: free --- ## What is a warehouse shift communication board? A warehouse shift and crew communication board is a screen by the time clock showing today's priorities, who's on the floor by zone, a crew shoutout and the break schedule, typed in by a supervisor at handover. Run across more than one shift, the board itself can be scheduled to change at the exact hour one shift ends and the next begins, so day shift and night shift are never reading yesterday's priorities. A warehouse supervisor runs this by the time clock or in the break room: today's priorities, who's on the floor by zone, a crew shoutout and the break schedule, scheduled to swap automatically at shift change. ## What is on this board The slides below are the template's real content, flattened to text. Remixing copies the whole deck into your own workspace, where every line is editable. ### Slide 1 of 7 - Day shift · Mon-Fri 6 AM-2 PM - Shift Briefing - Dock C is running two trucks behind. Picking team, prioritize Zone 3 first. - IRONYARD LOGISTICS · DAY SHIFT ### Slide 2 of 7 - Today's Plan - Orders due 3 PM - 212 - Trucks today - 6 - Cutoff time - 4:30 PM - Priority - Zone 3 · Aisle 12 - IRONYARD LOGISTICS · DAY SHIFT ### Slide 3 of 7 - On the Floor Today - Receiving - M. Carter - Picking - D. Alvarez - Packing - S. Ibrahim - Shipping - T. Novak - Zone leads for the shift, not a live roster. See your supervisor for swaps. - IRONYARD LOGISTICS · DAY SHIFT ### Slide 4 of 7 - Crew shoutout - This Week's MVP - Picking team - Maria Alvarez - 187 orders picked with zero errors this week. Buy her a coffee. - IRONYARD LOGISTICS · DAY SHIFT ### Slide 5 of 7 - Break & Meals - Shift A break - 9:45-10:00 - Shift A lunch - 12:00-12:30 - Shift B break - 1:45-2:00 - Shift B lunch - 4:00-4:30 - IRONYARD LOGISTICS · DAY SHIFT ### Slide 6 of 7 - Clock-in reminder - Badge In First - Two minutes early beats a corrected timesheet. Ask your lead if your badge isn't reading. - IRONYARD LOGISTICS · DAY SHIFT ### Slide 7 of 7 - Notices - Hiring - Forklift Op · Nights - Team potluck - Fri · Break Room B · 1 PM - New-hire day - Mon · 7 AM · Training Rm - IRONYARD LOGISTICS · DAY SHIFT ## Frequently asked questions ### Who should use a shift communication board? A warehouse, distribution center or plant running two or three shifts, where the same handover information (priorities, who's on the floor, break times) currently gets repeated verbally or written on a whiteboard that the next shift may or may not read. It suits a supervisor who wants one screen the outgoing and incoming shift both glance at on the way in and out. ### How do I change the board between shifts? Either edit the one show (fastest, for a quick priority change) or build a separate show per shift and let the schedule switch between them automatically. The outgoing supervisor edits from a phone in the last few minutes of the shift, typing the next shift's priorities, who's covering which zone, and anything that changed. It is a text edit, not a redesign. ### What problem does this actually solve? The handover gap between shifts, and doing it across more than one screen without someone walking the facility updating boards by hand. Two shifts reading different, stale or verbally-passed information is how a priority gets missed; a screen that has to be manually swapped by someone physically present at shift change is the same failure one step removed. ### How does ChannelOS solve it? By separating WHAT is on a screen from WHEN it airs. Build a day-shift version and a night-shift version of the board as two shows, put them on the same channel, and set the channel's daily timeline so it swaps from one to the other at your actual shift-change time, every day, on its own. Every screen in the facility tuned to that channel changes at the same moment, with no publish-and-wait step and nobody touching a TV. ### What does ChannelOS actually do? ChannelOS runs digital signage from a web page in the TV's own browser rather than a dedicated player box. You build shows in an editor, pair as many screens as the facility has by scanning a code on each, and schedule which show airs on which screen at which hour through channels. A multi-shift facility is exactly the case channels are built for: one schedule, several shift-specific shows, every paired screen following it automatically. The first screen is free forever. ## How to use it 1. Open https://channelos.tv/t/shift-crew-communication-board-eddb6fd1-ebcf-4c4d-847d-5d61ab07c2f3 and press "Use this template". Create a free account and the template opens in your own workspace. 2. Change the words, prices and photos in the editor, from a phone or a computer. 3. On the TV, open play.channelos.tv in its own browser, pair it from your phone with the code it shows, then publish the board to it. It runs in the television's own web browser. There is no media player box to buy and nothing to install. The first screen is free. Free screens show a ChannelOS banner along the bottom of the screen. Any paid plan removes it.