
Growing demand for access to operational data to drive productivity and efficiencies within manufacturing organisations helped Sheffield-based
FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics secure more than 70 new customers for its plug-and-play machine monitoring platform last year.
2024 turned out to be FourJaw’s best yet for new business, on-boarding new new customers in the UK, Ireland, continental Europe, the USA, and New Zealand, including several multi-nationals and household names in the food and beverage, construction, aerospace, and automotive industries. Expansion among existing customers also contributed to a 41% increase in the total number of machines monitored using FourJaw’s technologies.
Founded in 2020 as a spin-out from the
University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), FourJaw is now used worldwide by manufacturers seeking to boost operational improvement and find new sources of competitive advantage. Its technology captures real-time production data, such as utilisation and energy usage, from 1,000s of machines globally.
By combining this data with operator feedback, FourJaw generates insights to inspire improvements in productivity, operational efficiency, and overall financial and environmental performance. Proactive users of FourJaw technology typically experience productivity gains of 10 to 20% within a year and increase output capacity by up to 30%.
Chris Iveson, FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics’ CEO, said: “2024 was a challenging year for a lot of manufacturers, which had to contend with economic uncertainty, inflation, high energy costs and skilled worker shortages. Despite those challenges, FourJaw and most of our customers finished the year stronger than ever. We are succeeding by helping manufacturers succeed, transforming productivity and making it possible to digitalise and connect any factory environment cost-effectively.”
FourJaw offers a significant advantage over traditional monitoring systems, which often require costly installations and complex hard-wiring for each machine. With plug-and-play Internet of Things (IoT) hardware, manufacturers can deploy FourJaw’s technologies on any machine within minutes. This ease of installation and a per-machine pricing model make FourJaw accessible to manufacturers of all sizes, regardless of budget or infrastructure.