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FourJaw For Continuous Improvement

Factory Insight that drives Continuous Improvement. 

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Find the next improvement and prove that it worked

Continuous improvement teams need more than a snapshot of performance. 

FourJaw automatically captures machine activity and combines it with operator downtime reasons, production information and historical trends. CI teams then use that evidence to choose the right project, test the change and show whether the gain was sustained.

Customers of FourJaw can also opt in to join our  Productivity Accelerator Programme,  designed to help manufacturers unlock the full value of their machine data by linking it directly to continuous improvement projects.

 

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Drive Improvement with Data.
Not Guesswork.

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Identify Inefficiencies at Scale

Uncover where time, energy, and capacity are being lost and use the insight to know where processes can be improved.

 
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Prove Impact, Sustain Gains

Monitor the results of your improvement initiatives in real time and use trends to validate changes, share wins, and sustain progress. 
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Drive a Culture of Improvement

With shared visibility into performance, teams are empowered to take ownership and collaborate on improvement efforts.

Improvement effort is wasted when the baseline cannot be trusted

Manual observations and short time studies can identify useful issues, but they only record the period observed. Retrospective downtime logs depend on memory, while broad efficiency scores can hide the specific causes behind lost time.

FourJaw provides a continuous production timeline. It shows when machines were productive, idle or stopped, while operators add the reason behind the event.

CI teams can then separate isolated incidents from repeated patterns and size the opportunity using Pareto analysis before committing resources.

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Use the same evidence through the improvement cycle

FourJaw provides the production baseline, downtime analysis and historical comparison used within Lean, Kaizen, PDCA, DMAIC and related improvement approaches.

The method remains with your team; FourJaw supplies the operational evidence.

Establish the baseline

Measure utilisation, downtime, output and production patterns across the machines, shifts or processes in scope.

 
Prioritise the loss Use downtime Pareto analysis and filters to identify the small number of causes responsible for the largest share of lost time.
Test the intervention Track performance while changing setup, maintenance, staffing, material flow, training or another process condition.
Verify and sustain the gain Compare the result with the original baseline and continue monitoring to see whether performance holds across shifts and over time.
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Evidence from continuous improvement programmes

Stuart PickersgillDirector of Manufacturing and Operations

250 more windows produced each week from a 10% productivity increase.

“FourJaw has been a breath of fresh air for Listers…It has become the heartbeat of the business, enabling us to take a proactive and targeted approach to continuous improvement that benefits our people, customers and bottom line."

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Charlie StothardProcess Improvement Manager

28% increase in OEE.

“From a continuous improvement point of view, we now have concrete evidence of where to focus our energy, helping with costings, budgeting and machine utilisation.”

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Chris RyanContinuous Improvement Manager

19% increase in machine utilisation.  Efficiency savings worth up to £30k per annum.

"FourJaw was an easy investment to make…. It has been adopted as part of the culture of our organisation, improving efficiency and communication and providing objective data to inform production schedules, operational improvements and machine investment strategies."

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Questions

FourJaw helps continuous improvement teams answer

  • Which recurring downtime causes offer the largest recoverable opportunity

  • Whether a bottleneck sits with equipment, process, labour, materials or waiting time

  • How performance varies between shifts, products, machines and production areas

  • Whether a SMED, Kaizen, maintenance or staffing change reduced the target loss

  • Whether the improvement has been sustained rather than appearing as a short-term uplift

  • Which result provides the strongest evidence for leadership support or wider rollout
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Validate Improvement Initiatives

Measure the effect of your improvements in real-time using our productivity accelerator programme that uses a structured, repeatable process to accelerate productivity improvements and demonstrate measurable impact across your factory.

Compare before-and-after performance, track key metrics like OEE availability or uptime, and build trust across the business by backing every decision with data.

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Make operator knowledge part of the improvement process

The machine signal identifies when time was lost. The operator often knows why. FourJaw brings both together, giving CI teams structured evidence without asking operators to recreate every event at the end of the shift.

Use reason codes that match the language of the factory, share the findings openly and show which issues have been acted on. That closes the loop between operator input and improvement activity.

Whether it’s a daily huddle, kaizen event, or tier meeting, your teams can use real data to spot issues, prioritise actions, and take ownership of improvement.

 

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Support Every Step of DMAIC

FourJaw provides a digital foundation for each step of the DMAIC process. 

Measure performance with live OEE and utilisation metrics, analyse root causes with downtime Pareto, improve by tracking interventions in real-time, and control results with ongoing visibility across machines and teams using dashboards to visualise the data. 

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Increasing Machine Utilisation With FourJaw

The results:
  • More than 19% Machine Utilisation Increase
  • €30,000 saved annually through efficiency and energy improvements
  • Reduced time lost on each monitored machine by an average of 20 minutes per shift
  • Driving a friendly, competitive culture across the factory floor
  • Supporting a culture of Continuous Improvement
  • Use FourJaw data to help inform its machine investment decisions
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Frequently Asked Questions about Continuous Improvement with FourJaw

Continuous Improvement teams rely on accurate data to drive meaningful change. FourJaw helps CI teams to see where time and efficiency are lost, so they can focus their efforts where they’ll make the biggest impact.

Explore the answers to learn how our production monitoring platform supports Lean, Kaizen, and other CI programmes — from uncovering opportunities to measuring results and sustaining improvement.

How does FourJaw support continuous improvement initiatives?

FourJaw provides continuous improvement teams with real-time, objective production data that helps identify, prioritise, and measure improvement opportunities.

By automatically capturing machine utilisation, downtime, downtime reasons, and production performance, FourJaw creates an accurate baseline for improvement. This enables teams to identify the biggest causes of lost productivity, focus efforts where they will have the greatest impact, and measure the results of Lean, Kaizen, SMED, and other continuous improvement initiatives with confidence.

The result is faster problem-solving, data-driven decision-making, and measurable improvements in productivity, efficiency, and factory performance.
Can FourJaw help us measure the results of our improvement projects? Yes. FourJaw’s dashboards and downtime trends make it easy to see how machine performance changes over time. Whether you’re running a SMED project, a Kaizen event, or a shift optimisation initiative, you can track downtime reduction, utilisation gains, and overall ROI to demonstrate measurable success to your stakeholders.
What types of continuous improvement programmes work best with FourJaw?

FourJaw supports a wide range of CI methodologies — including Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and TPM. It provides the live, factual data these frameworks rely on to uncover waste, validate improvements, and sustain gains.

Many customers use FourJaw alongside PDCA or DMAIC to guide improvement cycles from baseline through to control.
How do operators and teams engage with FourJaw during improvement activities?

Operators use tablets on the shop floor to log downtime reasons quickly and accurately. This builds engagement by involving the people closest to the process and giving them a voice in identifying and solving problems.

Meanwhile, managers and CI leads use the web app to visualise patterns, share findings, and celebrate success across teams.
What impact have manufacturers seen from using FourJaw for continuous improvement?

FourJaw customers commonly achieve 10–30% productivity improvements within just a few months. For example, AMS increased machine utilisation by 19% through data-driven CI, while Listers improved productivity by 10% and reduced energy waste. These results show how visibility and data empower teams to make focused, lasting improvements.

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