OEE Machine Monitoring

Increase Efficiency

See your OEE score by machine, cell, production line or factory, in real time and over time.

Reduce Wastage

Understand the underlying reasons for any production losses and take corrective action.

DRIVE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Use accurate data to inform process and behavioural changes to drive improvement.

Accurately Measure OEE without the Hassle

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is seen by many manufacturers as the gold standard in productivity monitoring, taking into account Performance, Availability and Quality.

It identifies the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive. An OEE of 100% means that only good parts are produced (100% quality), at the maximum speed (100% performance), and without interruption (100% availability).

FourJaw is an easy-to-install OEE machine monitoring platform that can enable you to determine your machine’s availability and identify areas where performance can be improved, helping you on your journey to lean manufacturing.

BENEFITS THAT EXTEND BEYOND OEE

Financial

Improve productivity, reduce wastage and understand the true cost of jobs to maximise profitability.

Productivity

Empower your machine operators with accurate, real-time machine data to help them improve shift productivity.

Process & Systems

Understand the top causes of machine downtime and waste to inform your continuous improvement strategy.

Behavioural

Replace opinion with fact, using accurate data. People can feel empowered to make decisions based on actionable insight to drive operational efficiencies.

Sustainable

Use data insight to remove inefficiencies and understand your carbon footprint by machine, cell or factory to support your sustainable manufacturing initiatives.

AFFORDABLE OEE MACHINE MONITORING SOFTWARE

FourJaw Pricing

Plug-and-Play Installation that works on any machine. Training & ongoing support are all included in the price.

Monthly

Yearly

SAVE 10%

Essential

£37.50/mo Per machine - Billed monthly

£33.75/mo Per machine - Billed monthly

Utilisation Metrics

Energy Monitoring

Benchmarking & Shift Reporting

Downtime Tracking

Job Tracking

Free Hardware

Benchmark productivity with basic reporting

Standard

£75.00/mo Per machine - Billed monthly

£67.50/mo Per machine - Billed monthly

Utilisation Metrics

Energy Monitoring

Benchmarking & Shift Reporting

Downtime Tracking

Job Tracking

Free Hardware

Resolve issues faster with real-time alerts

Recommended

Professional

£150.00/mo Per machine - Billed monthly

£135.00/mo Per machine - Billed monthly

Utilisation/OEE Metrics

Energy Monitoring

Benchmarking & Shift Reporting

Downtime Tracking

Job Tracking

Free Hardware

Drive improvement with detailed downtime data

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Here's a selection of frequently asked questions relating to OEE along with our answers!

How can machine monitoring help improve OEE?

The OEE measure in manufacturing looks at three factors; Quality, Performance and Availability. FourJaw's machine monitoring platform is designed to help identify, measure and improve how productive a production line (or machine) is. Therefore if you're looking to start or improve your current OEE measures, then our machine monitoring platform can help you with your manufacturing performance and availability.

How do you define machine downtime reasons to calculate OEE?

OEE in FourJaw tracks the performance and availability of your machine using the downtime reasons logged by machine operators. To do this, you need to choose an OEE category for each of your downtime reasons.

Anything that means that your machine is not available to use because it is broken, undergoing maintenance or being reprogrammed etc. is set to downtime OEE category Availability. Everything else is set to performance.

Examples of Availability Downtime reasons include: Machine fault, Tool broken, Set Up, Unplanned maintenance etc

How does FourJaw OEE Machine Monitoring benefit Production managers?

FourJaw OEE machine monitoring provides a number of benefits, ideally suited for Production Managers, including:

See trends in OEE / Availability / Performance / Quality over 3 or 6 months – so that I can set targets and celebrate success.
See OEE broken down by Factory, Cell or Machine so that I can focus continuous improvement efforts in the right place.
Drill down and see what downtime reasons are affecting performance and availability so that I can try and solve issues.
See how productivity differs across different shifts.

How does FourJaw OEE Machine Monitoring benefit shop floor managers?

FourJaw's OEE machine monitoring functionality provides two key benefits to Shop floor managers. These include:

Ability to investigate cycle times and drive reductions by comparing cycle times on different machines and across shifts.
Ability to investigate the number of stops per shift and drive reduction by comparing different machines and shifts.

HOW DOES FOURJAW CALCULATE OEE?

FourJaw’s OEE machine monitoring software reports on three key metrics Availability, Performance, and Quality. The results of these metrics are used to generate an overall OEE percentage.

OEE and Performance, Availability and Quality all start at 100% and are reduced when issues are logged.

Availability

The availability measure monitors a machine, cell, or factory's actual runtime versus planned runtime. This data can be used to highlight how much-unplanned downtime and quality issues are impacting your factory's productivity.

Availability = ((Total time in the period – downtime logged to availability issues) / Total time in the period) x 100

Performance

The performance measure reports on output productivity by comparing the number of units produced in a time period versus the number of units which could theoretically be produced.

Performance = ((Total time in the period – downtime logged to performance issues) / Total time in the period) x 100