Meet ShiftPanda: Shift Passdown Software That Takes a Couple of Minutes

Every new tool says it's simple. Then you open it and there's a dashboard, twelve menus and a training video.

So instead of telling you ShiftPanda is simple, here's exactly what it does for your shift passdown (some plants call it a shift handover). You can decide for yourself.

ShiftPanda does one thing: shift passdowns.

At the end of your shift, you tell the next crew what's running, what's down, what's half-done and what's still open. Every passdown shows who has read it and who acknowledged it, by name. That's it.

It's not a maintenance system. It's not a production tracker. It doesn't want to run your plant. It replaces the clipboard, the whiteboard and the group text for the one job they're bad at.

Your floor, set up once. You add your areas and the machines in each one. That's the structure every passdown follows, so nobody forgets to mention a line.

Writing a passdown. At shift change, you start a new passdown and go area by area. Mark each machine Running or Idle. Add a note where it matters: the workaround, the half-done setup, the thing to keep an eye on. Submit.

Logging an issue. Some problems don't wait for shift change. You can log an issue on its own, any time, so it's on record before the passdown.

Know who read it. Every passdown shows who has read it and who acknowledged it, by name. Now both sides know it landed. No more "I never saw that."

History when you need it. Every passdown and who acknowledged it is saved, so you can look back at what happened on any shift without digging through old clipboards.

Most software gets designed at a desk and tested on a laptop. Passdowns happen standing up, next to a machine, at the end of a long shift. So we built for that.

• Big buttons. Easy to tap on a tablet, including with touchscreen gloves.
• Wi-Fi dead spots don't wipe your work. Lose Wi-Fi mid-passdown and what you've typed is still there when you're back.
• Nothing to install. It runs in the browser. Open it on the tablet you've got and go.
• Fast. Once your areas are set up, a simple passdown takes about a minute and a full end-of-shift one takes under two.

The first person to sign up becomes the admin. That's usually the supervisor who's tired of the whiteboard.

From there you add your areas and machines and invite your crew. Invites take minutes. Your crew doesn't need training. If they can read a passdown, they can use ShiftPanda.

ShiftPanda is $9 per user per month. You can try it free for 30 days first, with your real crew on your real shifts.

At the end of the trial you'll have a month of passdowns to show your plant manager. That's a lot easier than pitching an idea. You're showing them something that's already working on the floor.

We want to be straight about this, because you've probably been burned by a tool that promised everything.

ShiftPanda won't replace your maintenance system, your production software or your ERP. It won't schedule your shifts or track your parts. It sits alongside whatever your plant already runs and handles the one thing those systems never got right: a fast, clear passdown the next crew will actually read.

The fastest way to know if it's simple is to try it. Set it up for your area this afternoon and run your next shift change on it.