Machine Monitoring for Oil & Gas Equipment Manufacturers

Improve Productivity

Real-time machine data provides you with the top reasons/causes of machine downtime.

Gain Visibility

Get live alerts so you can respond to production issues that may arise.

Reduce Costs

We enable you to gain productivity and capacity to lower your production costs.

MANUFACTURING SUCCESS STORY

13% PRODUCTIVITY GAIN IN JUST ONE DAY

Discover how, after just two days of installing FourJaw machine monitoring software, this Oil & Gas equipment manufacturer saw night-shift productivity go from 34 per cent on day one to 47 per cent on day two and constant from that day onward.

"FourJaw is giving us the ability to see areas of downtime that in the past we would have had to micromanage to discover".

Sub contract manufacturing production line for Oil and Gas equipment

Strike Efficiency On Your Production Line

Whether you're producing wellhead equipment or drilling parts, the attention to detail required to ensure the highest levels of quality and precision is critical to your success. Behind these processes are people working effortlessly to ensure you deliver for your customers.

And behind the people are the machines. The likelihood is that you'll be running various CNC machines that will be 'busy' cutting, turning and milling to make your finished products, but could you confidently answer the important questions about productivity?

GET ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THAT MATTER MOST

How productive are my machines?

Is my production line running at optimal capacity?

Will my jobs be delivered on time?

Downtime Reasons

Real-time machine data provides you with the top reasons/causes of machine downtime.

Live Data Capture

Track machine and job status, ensuring you know the state of your machines at all times.

Live Alerts

Instant notifications enable proactive action, preventing costly downtime.

INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY Machine monitoring identifies inefficiencies to enable managers and machine operators to take quick corrective action.

INCREASE CAPACITY

Reduce downtime on day and night shifts using real-time data insight. Giving you more capacity from the same resources. Learn more about increasing production capacity.

GROW PROFITABILITY

FourJaw machine monitoring lowers your production costs by driving productivity and growing existing capacity.

DRIVE SUSTAINABILITY

See how energy usage translates to costs and carbon footprint to motivate change. Track energy usage by machine, cell, production line or factory, in real-time and over time.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which machines in oil and gas equipment manufacturing use FourJaw?

FourJaw's machine monitoring solution is designed for use on all types of manufacturing equipment.

In oil and gas equipment manufacturing, our analytics software is frequently used with:

CNC Lathe
CNC Turning
CNC Milling
Drilling
Oxy-Fuel Cutting Machines
Laser Cutting
Waterjet Cutting
Plasma Cutting
Grinding
Inspection
Packaging
Weighing

Learn more about CNC machine monitoring with FourJaw.

How Can Machine Monitoring Improve Productivity & Machine Utilisation?

Machine monitoring provides manufacturers with full factory floor visibility of how well machines are being utilised, by showing the machine downtime and uptimes.

With the FourJaw machine monitoring platform, operatives can categorise the reasons for the downtimes so factory floor managers get a clear picture of how productive the machines are. Here's a useful case study that shows how a manufacturer improved their machine utilisation by 400%.

Does FourJaw machine monitoring work on old machines?

Yes. Our machine monitoring platform was specifically designed to make machine monitoring accessible to manufacturers of all shapes and sizes, which of course meant we designed our platform to work with any type of machine, regardless of age, brand or model. So you can turn your 50-year-old machine into a 'smart machine', helping you to understand how productive your machines are.

Does manufacturing analytics improve OEE? OEE comprises three factors: Quality, Performance and Availability. Manufacturing analytics provides valuable insights on the performance of your machines and production lines, allowing manufacturers to make informed decisions that improve OEE.

Learn more about how to improve manufacturing OEE with FourJaw.

Can Machine monitoring help reduce energy usage?

FourJaw's machine monitoring software provides Energy usage data combined with Machine productivity data to help factories reduce their energy usage, energy costs and carbon footprint.

You can find out more about FourJaw's energy monitoring feature here.

Is FourJaw expensive?

No. Unlike traditional machine monitoring solutions, we designed our machine monitoring platform to be accessible, not only did we make it easy to install (minimising disruption to your shop floor) but we also made it affordable.

We offer monthly payment plans and you can install it yourself, so there are no high upfront installation costs often associated with traditional machine monitoring solutions. Find out more about the pricing plans we offer here.

What data does FourJaw machine monitoring capture?

Utilisation Data

FourJaw starts with utilisation data in it's simplest form. The specially designed MachineLink hardware is a combination of miniature computer and current clamps. These two current clamps are typically attached to the total power incomer of the machine and the main drive unit, for example a spindle motor of a CNC machine.

This raw data is recorded every second and sent to our secure Azure cloud platform. The data is then instantly built into chunks of running and not running data, typically over 20-second periods, which is then displayed and categorised throughout the FourJaw platform.

What this provides is a very accurate measure of when the productive part of the machine experiences load and when it does not. Applied to this data is FourJaw's Machine Learning program which automatically classifies the data into productive/active and idle/inactive time. This means warm up runs and free air cycles are classed as idle time in the case of a CNC machine as the machines is not in its productive state.

How does FourJaw capture Machine Downtime Data?

Downtime reasons are inputted by the operator of the machine via a tablet which is installed beside the operator.

Each tablet is paired with a machine via the same FourJaw portal running on a Chrome browser.

When the MachineLink hardware, detailed above, measures a set period of idle time a pop-up appears on the platform asking the user to log why the period of idle time has occurred, this can be inputted straight away, during the downtime or even post the downtime if required.

Does FourJaw machine monitoring platform capture work booking and job data?

Yes it does.

Work order information can be inputted manually or directly imported from a .CSV file.

This data includes the WO number, operations, machine names, estimated job time and start dates.

As with all parts of the FourJaw platform, this data is combined with the downtime and utilisation data to provide meaningful and actionable insights into your production process.

I already monitor Work order times, Ops times and setup times, why is this different?

As a manufacturer, it's highly likely you'll already be monitoring Work order times, Ops times and setup times, of course, this is all useful, however, it does not give you the big picture.

For instance, it doesn't identify and inform you of what improvements can be made to improve shop floor productivity.

Machine monitoring differs because it will give you real-time, actionable shop floor data such as: