Smooth Transitions: Making the Most of Shift Handovers in Manufacturing
Connected WorkforceDaily Management November 27, 2023Maximize your plant’s performance with effective shift handovers. Discover how Poka enhances communication using digital tools like a shift changeover form and shift changeover checklist to keep supervisors and operators aligned, informed, and productive.
FAQs on Shift Handovers
A shift handover is a short meeting where outgoing and incoming teams exchange critical information about ongoing operations, safety issues, and priorities. It ensures continuity, prevents errors, and maximizes productivity across shifts.
Relying on verbal communication or handwritten notes often leads to incomplete or unclear information transfer, causing downtime, safety hazards, and inconsistent performance.
Poka provides a digital platform with shift changeover forms, shift changeover checklists, real-time dashboards, and collaboration tools that ensure accurate, consistent, and timely information sharing.
Yes. By providing visibility into in-progress forms, open issues, and task status, Poka ensures incoming teams can immediately continue where the previous shift left off—reducing delays and wasted effort.
Supervisors get centralized control and visibility through digital dashboards, while operators gain easy access to instructions, issue logs, and updates—making every shift handover more effective and data-driven.