For manufacturing plant managers
First shift decides.
Second shift executes.
Does the handoff work?
In Parallel captures every shift meeting decision, owner, deadline, context, and makes it available to the next shift before they walk in. Start free.
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The handoff tax
Three shifts a day.
How many decisions survive the changeover?
In multi-shift manufacturing, coordination that works face-to-face on day shift breaks down at every handover. Decisions scatter across whiteboards, clipboards, and memory.
60%
of unplanned downtime traces back to miscommunication during shift handovers.
The plant has outgrown verbal handoffs but hasn’t built the operational infrastructure to replace them.
Aberdeen Group / Plant Services Research
12 hours of lag
The average time between a first-shift production decision and second/third shift executing on it. By then, conditions have changed and the decision may no longer apply.
Invisible drift
Second shift adjusts a process parameter. Third shift doesn’t know until a quality hold appears. Nobody flagged it because nobody saw it.
5 systems, zero continuity
MES for production, ERP for planning, email for corporate, whiteboards for the floor. None of them show the plant manager what was decided across all shifts today.
How In Parallel helps
From three shifts to one shared reality.
01
Shift meeting decision capture
In Parallel joins your morning production meetings, shift handovers, and safety briefings, captures every decision, owner, and deadline. No clipboards. No WhatsApp chains. No lost context.
02
Living production plan
Your plan updates itself from meeting signals. When first shift changes a batch priority, second shift sees it immediately, not eight hours later via a scribbled note on the whiteboard.
03
Handoff drift detection
Know when a shift deviates from what was agreed before it compounds into a quality issue. In Parallel surfaces the gap between decisions and actions across every changeover.
04
Plant reporting without the scramble
Stop spending Friday afternoons assembling production reports from three shifts of scattered notes. Execution data is always current because it comes from the meetings where decisions happens.
Trusted by production teams
A multi-site manufacturer eliminated handoff-related quality holds.
“We used to lose two hours every changeover reconstructing what the previous shift decided. Now every incoming shift lead has full context before they hit the floor.”
75%
fewer handoff-related incidents
2 hrs
saved per changeover
30 min
weekly report prep (was half a day)
<2 wks
typical time to value
Source: internal customer averages, 2026 cohort. Individual results vary. [source needed] on outlet-cited figures.
Side by side
What changes when handoff decisions stop disappearing.
Without In Parallel
- Second shift guessing what first shift decided
- Handoff notes lost on whiteboards and clipboards
- Quality issues traced back to miscommunicated changes
- Friday afternoons spent assembling weekly production reports
- Drift discovered after a batch is already compromised
With In Parallel
- Every shift decision captured with owner, deadline, and context
- Handoff context available before the next shift walks in
- Quality-critical changes flagged across all shifts automatically
- Production reports always current, 30-minute weekly prep
- Drift detected before it reaches the production line
Built for manufacturing
Your plant. Your meetings. Zero behaviour change.
In Parallel layers onto how your shifts already communicate. Nobody downloads an app. Nobody changes their workflow. It just works.
Works on the plant floor
Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or in-person meetings transcribed via mobile. In Parallel layers onto how your shifts already communicate.
SOC 2 + GDPR
Enterprise security your corporate parent expects. EU data residency available. Audit reports on request.
Per user, with a free tier
€69 / user / month after a 20-day free trial of the full product. Notes is free up to 10 meetings / user / month, forever — no credit card.
Zero behaviour change
In Parallel joins your existing meetings. Nobody downloads an app. Nobody changes their workflow. It just works.
Multi-shift by design
Not a single-team tool. A coordination layer that works across every shift, every line, and every handover your plant runs.
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See every decision captured.
Notes is free up to 10 meetings/user/month, forever. Try the full product free for 20 days. Try it on your morning production meeting this week. See every decision with an owner and a deadline. Then decide if you want the Living Plan.