The operator is at the machine. The binder is in the office.
Engineers define target machine settings per product once — temperature, pressure, speed, torque, any parameter the line requires. During every changeover, operators see the correct values for the incoming product on screen. No retrieval. No reprinting. No version drift.
Each one is a delay or a defect that traces back to the same root cause: the correct value wasn't where the operator needed it.
The line runs 40 SKUs. The binder has 40 pages. The changeover is to page 23. The operator is under time pressure and grabs the wrong one.
He sets the machine to the values on the sheet. They're for a different product — close but not identical. First-piece passes. Intermittent rejects appear an hour into the run. The root cause takes a shift to trace back to the setup.
REF-78B and REF-91C have nearly identical settings. The pressure spec for REF-78B was revised after a quality review. The laminated sheet wasn't reprinted.
The operator follows the sheet exactly — the old values. First-piece QC fails. The changeover restarts. Root cause: outdated parameters on a sheet that looked current. Caught after the scrap, not before.
The day-shift engineer set the Line 5 parameters for the speciality SKUs from memory. He never wrote them down anywhere official.
Night shift runs one of those SKUs. The supervisor calls him at home. He guesses from memory. The value is off. Three pieces are scrapped before anyone catches it. The knowledge left the building with him every evening.
ProChangeover puts the correct values on screen before the operator touches a dial.
Engineers build a parameter table for each line: one row per product, one column per machine setting. Fill in the values once. When a changeover starts, the incoming product is known — ProChangeover surfaces the correct values automatically. The operator sees exactly what the machine needs to be set to, without leaving the execution screen.
Parameters connect directly into task instructions. When a task requires the operator to set a machine value, the target is pulled from the table for the incoming product — the step reads the correct number, not a placeholder.
Every minute spent hunting for the right setting is a minute the line isn't running.
Incoming product parameters
REF-78B
INCOMINGVanilla cream
Temperature
185 °C
target
Pressure
2.8 bar
target
Line speed
950 rpm
target
Torque
38 Nm
target
Auto-resolved for REF-78B · defined once by the engineer
When a parameter changes, the engineer updates one cell — every operator on every shift sees the new target from that moment. On a line running 15 products with 6 parameters each, that's 90 values defined once and never reprinted. Parameters propagate across every line sharing the same product type automatically.
Changeover configuration & standards
Where the engineer builds the full changeover standard — task sequences, roles, and product parameters in one place.
Live operator visibility during changeover
See every step, every role, and every delay as it happens — not after the fact.
Digital work instructions for operators
Five rules for writing task instructions operators will actually follow — including when and how to embed parameter targets.
After your first run you'll have:
Configure one product's parameters, run one changeover. You'll never send an operator to find a binder again.
Timestamped sign-off record
Audit-ready from run one
Gantt timeline of every task
See exactly where time was lost
A repeatable standard
Not dependent on whoever showed up today
7-day free trial · Self-serve setup · No IT project required
