Skip to content
Close
Login
Contact
Phone: +44 (0) 114 400 0158Email: info@fourjaw.com
See a Demo
Phone: +44 (0) 114 400 0158Email: info@fourjaw.com
See a Demo
Find out how fast FourJaw pays for itself
Calculate ROI
Machine monitoring guide
CNC_Metal_Items

thin review banner
FourJaw for Production Planners

Plan resources more effectively. Make products more profitable.

Request a Demo
Download Brochure

Keep the production plan connected to what is happening now

Improve your production planning by knowing the details behind each job.  

Our machine & production monitoring platform combines real-time visibility, Work Order Management, job tracking, and shift planning to help you prevent delays, protect margins, and stay in control of your operation.

7-2

FourJaw for Production Planners

A production plan can be accurate at the start of the shift and out of date an hour later.

A machine stops, a job overruns or materials arrive late, but the effect may not become clear until several downstream orders have moved.

FourJaw brings work orders, machine activity, operator input and production quantities into one live view, enabling Planners to see which work is on track, where time is being lost and what needs to be reprioritised before delivery is affected.

Guide - How to Increase Production Capacity
Stop Managing Shifts. Start Seeing Them Shifts change. Bank holidays disrupt patterns. Night-and-day performance needs to be compared. And somehow, you’re expected to keep everything accurate, up to date, and meaningful.

FourJaw’s Production Planning module is built to handle how production actually works, not how software assumes it does.
Finally, Compare What Actually Matters

Most planners know the problem:

“I know something’s off… but I can’t isolate it by shift.”

Now you can.

Every widget in FourJaw can be filtered by shift type, unlocking a completely new level of visibility.

Instantly:

  • Compare day vs night shift performance

  • Spot shift-specific downtime issues

  • Analyse weekend vs weekday production

  • Build shift-specific dashboards for teams
Right Resources at the Right Time

Whether it’s people, materials or tooling, ensuring the right resources are available at the right time on the right job is critical to ensuring production downtime is minimised to maintain your KPIs such as utilisation or OEE.
Real-Time View of Your Factory With a complete, real-time view of your factory floor, including workflow status, you can confidently respond to production bottlenecks before there is a negative impact on your customer’s order.

Smarter shift planning, better production performance.

Plan shifts with a flexible, visual calendar that makes it easy to create recurring schedules, manage one-off changes and keep production plans accurate.

Compare performance across different shifts to understand where output, downtime and efficiency vary, helping you make better-informed planning decisions.

Download our brochure
Production planner looking at production timeline

Production Planning, Finally Built for Reality.

ERP and planning systems set out what should happen. Manual updates describe some of what has happened. The gap between them makes it difficult to judge whether a job is genuinely behind, which machine has capacity or how a delay will affect the rest of the schedule.

FourJaw adds a live production layer.

It records machine activity automatically, allows operators to select the current work order and captures production quantities so the planning team can compare expected work with actual progress.

Explore Job Tracking
Job tracking status
CNC_Metal_Items
You may have been in the position where you think I need to buy another machine. Because you think you’ve got a capacity problem, but now we use FourJaw we can see where we have capacity that I'm not using.

Follow work from priority to completion

Bring in the work

Import work orders by CSV or API, including the information operators and planners need to identify the job and its required quantity.
Set the production priority Assign work to the relevant machine, arrange the sequence and update priorities as demand or factory conditions change.
Give operators the current plan Make the latest work list available through the Operator Workspace so the correct job can be selected at the machine.
Track actual progress View work order status, machine activity and manual or automatic production quantities against the work being completed.
Improve the next plan Use actual run time, downtime and shift performance to strengthen future scheduling, capacity assumptions and quotations.

Planning outcomes measured on the factory floor

Planning decisions you can make earlier using FourJaw.

  • Which work order or operation is moving away from plan

  • Whether a delayed job should be reprioritised or moved to another available machine

  • Where downtime is likely to affect the next job or customer delivery date

  • How day, night, weekday and weekend shifts compare in actual production performance

  • Whether current machine and labour capacity can absorb an urgent incoming order

  • Where estimated run time should be updated using actual production evidence

See Our Interactive Product Guide
Production data on shop floor

Ready to
Learn More?

See how FourJaw's production monitoring platform can help you follow work from priority to completion. Book a personalised demo of our platform. 

Request a Demo
Production planning in FourJaw

FAQs about FourJaw from Production Planners

Can FourJaw import work orders from our existing system?

Yes. Work orders can be imported by CSV or through an API workflow. The appropriate route depends on the fields available in your ERP or planning system and how often the plan changes. Read our Knowledge Base for more information. 
Can planners change job priorities?

Yes. FourJaw allows Planning teams to arrange and update the work order priority so operators can see the latest sequence in the Operator Workspace.
Can FourJaw compare planned and actual quantities?

FourJaw records manual production quantities and supports automatic part counting where a suitable dry-contact production signal is available. This allows teams to follow actual output against the work order requirement. Learn more about Part Count here. 
Does FourJaw replace an ERP or advanced scheduling system?

No. FourJaw complements ERPs and advanced scheduling systems by adding live machine, operator, and production information from the factory floor. It helps planners compare the plan with the actual execution.