Bedford based Carillon Industry Services (CIS), who supply precision engineering firms across the south of England and beyond, is partnering with Sheffield-based FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics whose cloud based App and clip-and-play MachineLink hardware provides immediate real time access to machine utilisation activity on the shop-floor.
CIS owner and managing director, Bryan Clover, was developing an Industry 4.0, Smart Factory, concept as part of the firm’s CNC analytics offer when he discovered tech start-up FourJaw which is just celebrating its first birthday following VC investor funding in 2020.
When FourJaw’s founders – Chris Iveson and Robin Hartley – visited the state-of-the-art CIS Productivity Proving Centre, they saw an immediate fit with Bryan’s Smart Factory offer to his customers across the aerospace, defence, medical and automotive sectors.
Clover said: “Our mission has always been to add significant value to our customers by equipping them the right cutting tools and oils for the job. The FourJaw platform is a different type of tool that enables manufacturers to eliminate unwanted downtime and maximise productive time. It fits perfectly with our Smart Factory concept.”
FourJaw’s CEO Chris Iveson agreed: “This partnership is a natural fit for FourJaw because Bryan and his team at CIS share our vision of revolutionising manufacturing using simple but transformative technologies to maximise productivity.
"Everyone has heard of Industry 4.0 and Made Smarter; our partnership turns both those ideas into practical, affordable real time applications. This will enable the precision engineering firms who CIS supply with tools, oils and lubricants to maximise the outputs from their capital investments.”
Clover said the during the visit: “We decided to install FourJaw in our Productivity Proving Centre, and from there we were hooked! We immediately saw the benefits that this platform could provide to our customer base, and what's more we were able to see just how easy it was to install as he onboarded one of our machines in a matter of minutes.
“The FourJaw team have an exciting roadmap that we believe will transform the manufacturing sector. Given this aligns so well with our own mission, we are excited have the FourJaw platform partnering with us.”
