Your changeover is already running long. You'll find out when it's over.
A changeover is the window between the last good part of one production run and the first good part of the next. It involves operators, maintenance, and QA — each completing steps in sequence, against a clock your whole schedule depends on. Most plants run that window on paper sheets and gut feel. When something goes wrong, you find out after the fact.
ProChangeover gives every person on your shift a live, shared task board — and gives you a real-time view of exactly where things stand, which role is delayed, and by how much. Before the moment passes.
A paper sheet gets printed — or pulled from a folder, or handed over verbally. Each role works through their steps. The supervisor walks the line to check progress, or waits for someone to call. When the run finishes, the total time goes on a whiteboard or into a spreadsheet.
If it ran long, the debrief is a conversation: "Does anyone know what happened?" Sometimes there's an answer. Often there isn't. Either way, next week's changeover runs the same way — because nothing was captured at the step level that would tell you what to change.
The problem isn't effort. It's resolution. You're recording at the wrong level.
What you have vs. what you need
You have
Total run time
You're missing
Time per task
You have
Role on the line
You're missing
Which role caused the delay
You have
A pattern you suspect
You're missing
Data to confirm and act on it
Not seeing what's happening on the line doesn't hurt once — it hits at three different moments, each with a different consequence.
It's 09:52. Changeover started at 09:00. Standard is 45 minutes.
You're 7 minutes over and nobody's told you. By the time someone walks over, the window to act has already closed. You hold or release the line on instinct — not information.
The run finished in 61 minutes. Standard is 45.
You know you're 16 minutes over. You don't know which step, which role, or whether it's happened before. The post-run debrief is a reconstruction from memory — not a report from data. Nothing changes.
Shift A averages 19 minutes. Shift B averages 41.
That's 22 minutes lost — every changeover, every time Shift B is on. You can't tell your operations director which step is driving it, which role is involved, or what the fix should be. You've never had the data at that resolution — so the gap stays.
When a changeover starts, a shared live board opens for your whole shift team. Every task shows which role owns it — Operator, Maintenance, or QA — and updates in real time as each step is completed. For the team on the floor, it replaces the paper sheet. For supervisors and engineers, it replaces the walk-the-line check. When a step goes over its standard time, it's flagged the moment it diverges — not at the end of the run.
Is it a standards problem or an execution problem?
That's the question you're trying to answer after every slow run. With role-level timestamps, you answer it from data — not interviews. If Maintenance consistently runs the mould swap long across different shifts, the standard is underspecified. If it only runs long on Shift B, that's a different problem entirely. You can't tell the difference without attribution — and you can't get attribution from a total-time log.
Line 3 · SKU-A100 → SKU-B200 · Started 09:02
Belt clean
Operator
Temp → 220 °C
Operator
Mould swap #42 → #78
Maintenance
Pressure to 3.5 bar
Operator
First-piece QC check
Because every step was timestamped and attributed to a role during the run, you don't reconstruct what happened — you review it. A Gantt timeline shows exactly which task ran long, which role was on it, how it compared to standard, and how it stacks up against every previous run of the same changeover.
"The mould swap took 18 minutes against a 10-minute standard — and Maintenance has run long on 6 of the last 8 runs of this changeover." That's a different conversation than "does anyone know why we ran long?" One leads to a root cause. The other leads to a shrug.
After your first run you'll have:
Configure one line, run one changeover. You'll walk away with a task-by-task timeline and role-level attribution that most plants have never had.
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
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