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FourJaw for Finance teams

Data you can use. Decisions you can trust. 

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Confident Capex Decisions

Make investment decisions backed by real production data—not assumptions. 
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Link Factory Performance to Financial Outcomes

Understand how production issues affect output, delivery, and ultimately revenue.
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Improve Quoting Accuracy

See how long jobs really take and how resources are being used.

Real-Time Insight. Smarter Financial Decisions.

Factory cost and investment decisions often depend on assumptions about available capacity, machine utilisation and the time required to complete work.

When the production record is incomplete, finance teams cannot easily test those assumptions.

FourJaw captures live machine activity, downtime, output, job progress and energy consumption. Combine that operational evidence with your labour rates, machine costs and margins to quantify lost capacity and make stronger decisions on cost, staffing and capital investment.

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We have achieved significant financial, productivity and sustainability gains with FourJaw, and expect to make further improvements as we progress.
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Cost Reduction & Operational Efficiency

A few minutes of recurring downtime can look insignificant in isolation.

Across several machines and every shift, it can represent a material amount of paid time, unused capacity, delayed output, or avoidable energy cost.

By identifying and reducing unproductive downtime, you can increase output without increasing overhead. This improves asset utilisation, lowers the effective hourly rate, and boosts contribution margins, enabling you to get more from your existing resources.

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Optimise Resource Allocation and Inventory Management

By analysing real-time production data, finance teams gain visibility into how capacity aligns with demand, enabling smarter decisions around cash flow and resource allocation.

FourJaw is not a replacement for ERP, accounting or full job-costing software. It provides the live production evidence those systems often lack.

For example, Finance teams can combine FourJaw time, activity, output and energy data with the commercial values held elsewhere in the business, helping you reduce excess stock, lower carrying costs, and free up working capital.

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Confident CapEx Decisions

Factory investment decisions shouldn’t rely on guesswork.

FourJaw provides real-time and historical data so you can justify CapEx with confidence, using facts, not assumptions.

Finance and operations can use the same production record when evaluating a new hire, a shift change, an improvement project or a request for another machine.

Track ROI over time to ensure new investments are delivering the performance and value you expected.

 

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Factory Intelligence.
Made Simple.

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The Results:

  • Machine Utilisation Increase - hitting a record for asset utilisation
  • Understanding the true time a job takes
  • Being able to quote more accurately to improve profitability
  • Driving a friendly, competitive culture across the shop floor
  • Supporting a culture of Continuous Improvement
  • Guided decisions for staff and equipment investments

Turn machine time into evidence for the business case

Financial decisions that FourJaw can support,include:

  • Whether unused capacity can meet demand before another machine is purchased

  • Whether a staffing change could recover more productive time than it costs

  • How recurring downtime affects the effective cost of a machine or production process

  • Where actual run time differs from the assumptions used in quotations and job costing

  • Whether overtime, additional shifts or outsourcing are treating a capacity problem that could be removed

  • Whether energy is being consumed while equipment is idle or not producing

 

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FAQs we get from Finance Teams

 
Does FourJaw calculate the financial cost of every loss?

FourJaw measures the production time, downtime, output and energy information behind the loss. Your team can apply its own labour, machine and margin assumptions, supported by the FourJaw ROI calculator where appropriate.
Can FourJaw support a capital expenditure request? Yes. FourJaw can show whether equipment is underused, where the constraint sits and how much production time is being lost. This provides evidence for deciding whether new equipment is required and for tracking performance after investment.
Can finance see production performance across several sites?

Yes. FourJaw supports a consolidated view across monitored sites, helping finance and leadership compare performance using a consistent production record.
How should we assess payback? Payback depends on the value of the time recovered and how the business uses it. The benefit may come from additional output, lower overtime, fewer shifts, reduced outsourcing, avoided capital expenditure or lower energy use.