Manufacturing Passdown
Audience:
Micron Employees in production areas
Purpose:
To document what happened during a production shift and to pass
important information to the oncoming shift
Author:
Micron employees in a production areas
Delivery:
E-mail
Example:
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an example of a passdown
Comments:
Employees on four shifts keep Micron’s manufacturing line running
24 hours per day, seven days per week. The employees on the outgoing shift have
critical information to pass to the employees of the oncoming shift. Often,
these two shifts have limited time to talk. To accommodate the time constraint,
employees write “passdowns” which provide a convenient and consistent way to
pass information from one production shift to the next.
Passdowns must be written in a clear and concise manner. Above all, the information
contained in the passdown must be accurate. Typos, misspellings, or poorly-constructed
sentences can cause the oncoming employees to make decisions that could damage
valuable product. The author of the example E-mail uses formatting to help
the reader find the needed information. Notice the bold typeface, indentation,
bullets, tables, and color.