Manufacturing and industry
Internal communications for manufacturing sites
Rotating shifts, a workforce with no computer, and safety notices that have to be evidenced in writing. Blastack puts the message on the operator's phone before they clock in.
€1.00 per person per month · No card · No minimum term
What happens today
The four problems that keep coming up
The noticeboard by the entrance
The notice goes up on a cork board and gets read if you happen to walk past it. Nobody knows how many people on nights have seen it.
Health and safety with nothing to show for it
A change to the lifting procedure has to reach everybody, and under the Health and Safety at Work Act you have to be able to show that it did.
Three shifts, three versions
What gets said at the morning handover never reaches the afternoon or the night shift, and every supervisor tells it their own way.
A WhatsApp group for every line
Set up by the supervisors themselves, with company information sitting on personal phones and nobody controlling any of it.
Use cases
What it gets used for in Manufacturing
- Line stoppage notice sent only to the site affected
- Safety procedure with a read receipt and a timestamp
- Anonymous engagement survey by shift, so you know what happens on nights
- Shift calendar and shift changes on the phone
- Recognition between people working the same line
What we don't solve
We don't sell screens for the shop floor
Everything runs through the browser on a phone. If you have stations where the phone stays in the locker, there are competitors who will fit a touchscreen in the changing room and we won't. We don't replace your production system or the shift report either: what we cover is the communication, not the process.
We used to pin the notice up and hope. Now I know the night shift has read it, and I know who hasn't.
What's included
All of this, from €1.00 per person per month
The noticeboard and the directory are in the base fee. Analytics, surveys, documents and chat switch on separately, at between one and ten cents per person.
Noticeboard and announcements
Posts with photo, video and PDF, targeted by site
Reach analytics
What percentage of your workforce has read each announcement
Surveys and employee engagement
Ask your workforce, with breakdowns and real anonymity
Documents with read receipts
Payslips, procedures and policies with proof of reading
Staff directory
Who is who, by department and by site
Roles and moderation
Who publishes, who approves, and what gets logged
Try it on one site and look at the number
Fifteen days, no card. Hand the code out at one plant, publish two announcements and look at what percentage of people read them.
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