Production shift handoff checklist: how downtime gets passed to the next crew

Downtime gets expensive when the next crew has to rediscover the same problem. I have seen a machine go down, get half-fixed, then the next shift loses another hour because nobody explained what was already tried. The handoff that helped me most was plain and specific. What alarm showed up, who was called, what part was swapped, what setting changed, what test passed, and what still looked wrong.…