Verified shift handover, built for production truth.
A digital shift logbook that replaces paper handover sheets with one record per shift — verified supervisor-to-supervisor handover, incident tracking, and production and quality KPIs for round-the-clock manufacturing teams.
The problem
At shift change, critical context evaporates. Outgoing crews pass along a machine running hot, a quality hold, or a maintenance issue through whiteboards, paper notebooks, or a thirty-second doorway conversation — with no proof the incoming shift actually received it, and no record that survives an audit. When something goes wrong at 3 a.m., nobody can reconstruct who knew what, or what the machine really produced.
The solution
One unified shift log replaces the notebook: outgoing supervisors complete a structured handover that the incoming supervisor must explicitly accept or reject, with an immutable audit trail where corrections are new entries, never edits. Incidents, follow-ups, and production and quality KPIs live in the same record, so nothing falls through the crack between shifts.
Everything a shift change needs
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Verified Supervisor Handover
Outgoing supervisors complete a structured handover; incoming supervisors explicitly accept or reject it, with a reason captured on rejection and a full audit trail of the exchange.
Immutable Audit Trail
Closed shift logs cannot be edited or deleted. Corrections are recorded as new, linked entries with user and timestamp, so the history always reflects what was actually said at the time.
Automatic Follow-Up Carry-Over
Unresolved follow-ups roll forward to the next shift automatically, with a carry-count and full chain back to where the item originated — nothing is silently dropped.
Incident Tracking With 6M Cause Analysis
Log incidents by severity with structured 6M cause analysis and voice-note attachments for fast shop-floor capture, then track them through to resolution.
Live Operations Dashboard
An OWL dashboard surfaces today's shifts, critical incidents, overdue follow-ups, and waiting handovers as KPI cards, plus a 7-day trend chart — no need to open a single record.
Shift Board Kanban With Workflow Guards
Shifts move through Draft, Active, Closing, and Closed with guards that block invalid transitions, such as closing a shift while a critical incident is still open.
Production Output & Quality KPIs
Capture good, rejected, and rework quantities per product with yield, output-per-hour, and efficiency-versus-nominal-rate computed automatically for every shift.
Material Balance & Loss Tolerance
Track material balance in kilograms — input minus output minus declared scrap — and flag unexplained loss against a per-work-center tolerance, requiring a written explanation before approval when it is exceeded.
Rejection Costing & PDF Reports
Rejections carry a 6M cause and a cost at standard product price, rolling up into a per-shift cost-of-poor-quality figure, with PDF export of the shift log and handover acknowledgment.
How it works
Open the shift
A daily job creates any missing shift log automatically, or a supervisor opens one for the date, shift, and work center — one log per combination, no duplicates.
Record the shift
Log production output, material balance, and incidents as they happen, with standing instructions and running orders carried over for context.
Hand over and verify
The outgoing supervisor closes the shift and hands over; the incoming supervisor explicitly accepts or rejects it, with any rejection reason captured in the audit trail.
Track and escalate
Open incidents and follow-ups carry forward automatically, with escalation reminders for late handovers and overdue items surfaced on the live dashboard.
Frequently asked
No sales fog. If your question isn't here, email us and we'll answer it the same way.
No. The app depends only on base_setup, mail, product, and web, and is explicitly designed to be deployable without MRP, Stock, or Accounting.
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Production Shift Logbook & Handover
A digital shift logbook with verified supervisor handover, automatic follow-up carry-over and 6M incident analysis — plus production, quality and material-balance KPIs on an immutable audit trail.
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