Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Automotive Plants

Log each shift in the free OEE tracker and record every stop under 5 minutes separately from planned downtime. Once a station's actual cycle time creeps above takt for several cycles in a row, count it as a micro-stop even if the line never fully halts. After a week you will have a downtime Pareto showing which torque station, weld robot, or press cell is bleeding the most takt time, which is exactly the loss picture a cell owner needs before asking for budget. The honest limit is that you are the one watching the clock and writing down the reason. Fabrico's computer vision reads cycle time off the PLC and flags the true cause automatically, with video evidence, the moment a station drifts.

A free tracker gets you a real, exportable downtime log with reason codes and timestamps, which is more traceability than most cells have today and useful evidence for an internal review. On its own it is a manual log that lives on one device with typed entries and no record of who changed what, so treat it as a starting point rather than surveillance-audit or PPAP evidence. Fabrico reads OEE and downtime automatically off the PLC plant-wide, keeps a full audit trail with roles, and supports audit-readiness for IATF 16949 evidence requirements, without claiming to guarantee compliance for you.

It's free with no signup and no expiry, not a 30-day trial. Open oee-tracker.html, start logging a shift, and your data stays in your browser on that device. There is no seat cap counting down and no card required. The tradeoff is scope: it runs one plant on one device, all manual entry rather than PLC-connected, which is where Fabrico takes over once you scale beyond one line.

Evocon is OEE-specific real-time monitoring software, usually entered through a free trial that starts a clock once data arrives, and it's strongest for a plant's first structured OEE measurement with visual dashboards. OEE Lab's tracker has no trial clock and no signup, so it's a good first pass before you commit to evaluating any paid OEE platform, Evocon included. For PLC-level automatic capture at scale across multiple synchronized cells, Fabrico is where a plant graduates to.

For the OEE side specifically, yes. MaintainX and Fiix are strong, accessible CMMS tools that focus on running work orders and PM schedules on a small team, and their free tiers are built around that workflow. Their primary job is the work-order loop rather than calculating OEE, availability, performance and quality from a logged shift or showing you a downtime Pareto against a benchmark. Use the OEE tracker alongside your existing CMMS to get the loss visibility, then decide if you need both tools long-term or a single platform like Fabrico that does automatic OEE capture and the work-order loop together.

Start with die and tooling changeovers on stamping and injection cells. They're high-frequency, SMED-critical, and usually the fastest win once you have real numbers, because a 10-minute changeover happening 6 times a shift adds up faster than most supervisors expect. Log a week of changeovers in the tracker, check the Pareto, and you'll likely find your first improvement project without touching a PLC.