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Shift huddle · SQDC

Ten minutes on real numbers, then one owned action.

Safety, quality, delivery and cost tiles read from records your team already keeps. Issues get an owner and a due date, and come back until they're closed.

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7-day free trial, no card required. Huddle measures read from work orders, scheduling and reports (every plan) and from deviations and CAPA (Professional and Enterprise). Confirm the board layout for your site in a demo.

Five team members in hairnets, masks, safety glasses, white coveralls and gloves standing in a short huddle beside a wall screen with four coloured tiles, one holding a tablet

  • Defined numbers.

    Your numerator, denominator and period.

  • One owner, one date.

    Every issue has both.

  • Followed up.

    Open items return to the next huddle.

Follow one morning huddle

Line 3's team meets at 06:30 for ten minutes. Four stages.

Line 3 · 06:30 huddle · yesterday's figures

Four numbers, one owned issue, followed up

Try it: open the Quality tile, give the issue an owner, then move to tomorrow's huddle.

Ten minutes, standing. Everyone sees the same recorded figures.

Tile figures come from records your team keeps; definitions and targets are yours. Confirm the board layout for your site in a demo.

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Line 3 · SQDC
Agreed measures
  • S · SafetyEvents and near misses
  • Q · QualityOpen deviations, holds
  • D · DeliverySchedule adherence
  • C · CostYield variance, downtime

Same definitions every shift.

One measure per letter

  • The team agrees one measure for each letter.
  • Each measure points to a V5 record, not a typed number.

Measures can only use data your team records in V5.

More on measures: full record and set-up

Also on this record

Source
V5 records, not typed

Definitions stay the same shift to shift.

Choosing measures
The worksheet below helps you pick one source and one owner per letter.
Free buyer guide · 12 pages

Shift Continuity & Team Development Buyer Guide

For supervisors, operations managers, quality and HR partners choosing how shifts hand over, how teams review the day and how one-to-ones are followed up.

  • 1Carry issues, don't retype them.
  • 2Define every huddle number.
  • 3Coach, don't score.
See what's inside
  • What's native vs your procedure
  • Handover template
  • Worked case: issue carried forward
  • Huddle measure definitions
  • The action log
  • Preparing a constructive one-to-one
  • Actions, follow-up, private access
  • Training evidence vs qualification
  • Supervisor test pack and first month
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Guide page: preparing a one-to-oneGuide page: issue carried forward between shiftsCover of the Shift Continuity & Team Development Buyer Guide

The huddle reads from the floor

Yield, downtime and deviations feed the four measures.

Shift handoverYield varianceMaintenance & OEE

What's included

What the huddle uses, and which plan each item needs. Compare plans

Daily rhythm

Measure, own, follow up.

Work orders & scheduling · Basic reports · Deviation management

Explore the huddle
  • Work orders & scheduling
    Delivery measures.
  • Basic reports
    Yield and counts.
  • Deviation managementProfessional and Enterprise
    Quality measures.
  • Maintenance & OEEProfessional and Enterprise
    Downtime for cost.

The team runs the huddle. V5 brings recorded numbers to it.

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