Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Industrial Bakeries
Log oven and proofer trips, mixer and divider stops, wrapping-line micro-stops and changeover cleaning in about two minutes a shift, benchmark your OEE, and keep every number local to your browser. Free forever, no account.
The short answer
- Start free: the OEE Lab tracker at oee-tracker.html logs a bakery shift in about 2 minutes with your own downtime codes for oven and proofer trips, mixer and divider stops, and wrapping-line jams, no account needed.
- What you get: instant OEE with availability, performance and quality, a downtime Pareto, a per-machine breakdown, a work order board, a PM schedule and an asset register, all free and local to your browser.
- Its honest limit: you still log shifts by hand and investigate wrapping-line micro-stops and changeover overruns yourself, and it runs on one device for one plant.
- When to upgrade: once oven, proofer and wrapping losses need automatic PLC capture and micro-stops need computer-vision true-cause across multiple lines, book a demo with Fabrico.
Industrial bakeries lose OEE in ways a discrete factory rarely sees. It is rarely one big breakdown. It is the final proofer that drifts on humidity or temperature and slows the whole line, the spiral or horizontal mixer that trips on an overload, the divider or moulder that stops on a weight or dough fault, and the flow wrapper that jams on a film splice mid-run. Each stop looks small, and together they quietly eat a shift, which is exactly the sort of loss the free OEE tracker and a habit of downtime tracking are built to surface, in the language of OEE.
Log a shift in about two minutes, tag every stop with your own bakery reason codes (oven band trip, proofer hold, mixer overload, divider or moulder fault, wrapping film splice, allergen cleandown, product changeover), and get a downtime Pareto that shows which loss is really costing you the most run time. When the log turns up a recurring fault you raise a job on the work order board and keep routine oven, proofer and mixer care on a preventive maintenance schedule, all with no account and nothing to install. Your data stays in your browser.
Start with the tracker to get honest numbers on the board. If you want to size the prize first, the cost of downtime breakdown puts a value on every lost hour, and the primer on what OEE is frames availability, performance and quality in bakery terms. Teams running a wider plant often start here and then read across to free CMMS for food and beverage, but a single bakery line is where this tracker earns its place.
What you get, free
2-minute shift logging
Capture run time, stops, scrap and good count for a bakery shift in about two minutes. Name your own downtime reason codes for the losses that hit bakeries hardest: oven band and burner trips, proofer humidity or temperature holds, mixer overloads, divider and moulder faults, wrapping-line jams, and allergen cleandowns between products.
Instant OEE with a downtime Pareto
The moment you save a shift you get availability, performance and quality, plus a Pareto that ranks your worst loss categories, so you can tell whether the proofer, a changeover, or wrapping-line micro-stops stole the most run time this week.
Per-machine breakdown and OEE benchmark
See OEE split by machine, so a slow tunnel oven, a tripping proofer and a jamming flow wrapper each show up on their own. Every shift is measured against a world-class OEE reference, so you can watch the gap on each line move over time.
Work order board
When a shift log turns up a wrapper that keeps jamming or a proofer damper that sticks, raise a work order on the board and track it from open to done, so recurring bakery stops actually get fixed instead of repeating shift after shift.
PM schedule, asset register and roles
Keep a register of your ovens, proofers, mixers, dividers, moulders and wrappers with preventive-maintenance schedules attached, and assign people and roles on the device, so routine belt, blade and seal work does not fall through the gaps between shifts.
Export, backup, PDF and a shareable scorecard
Export everything to CSV or JSON, back up and restore your data, print a clean PDF report, share a scorecard with a shift lead or plant manager, and install the tracker as a PWA on the shop-floor device. Your numbers stay yours, local to your browser.
Log one shift and the free tracker shows your OEE, your loss Pareto and how you compare to world-class. Add work orders and preventive-maintenance reminders in the same place.
Where free stops, and Fabrico begins
The free tracker is built for getting started fast and for one plant on one device. When a site gets serious about its losses, the manual steps start to cost more than they save. This is exactly where Fabrico takes over.
| Capability | Free OEE Lab tracker | Fabrico |
|---|---|---|
| Data capture | Log each shift by hand in about two minutes, including oven, proofer and wrapping-line stops, with data kept in your browser. | Reads OEE automatically off your PLCs, so ovens, proofers, mixers and wrapping lines are captured with no manual entry. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate wrapping jams, film splices and short proofer holds yourself and note the reason. | Computer vision identifies the true cause of each micro-stop with video evidence, the failure mode that dominates high-speed bakery wrapping lines. |
| Loss-to-fix loop | You spot the recurring jam or sticking damper, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A detected loss becomes a work order in the closed PLC-to-work-order loop, routed straight to the right technician. |
| Scope and multi-site | One plant on one device and browser, best for a single line or shift. | Runs the same closed PLC-to-work-order loop across every line and site from one central view, useful once you run more than one bakery line or plant. |
| Integrations | Standalone by design, run it on its own and export when you need data elsewhere. | Reads OEE straight off your PLCs and turns each detected loss into a work order, so losses flow into your maintenance stack without manual entry. |
| Access and roles | Local device sign-in with people and roles on that one device. | Role controls and a full audit trail across the plant, backed by ISO 27001, 20000-1 and 9001 certification. |
| Data residency | Data stays local in your browser, on the device you use. | EU-built with EU data residency and certified to ISO 27001, 20000-1 and 9001, which supports audit-readiness. |
| Reporting | Instant OEE, a per-machine breakdown, a downtime Pareto, a printable PDF, and CSV or JSON export you run yourself. | Live OEE dashboards fed straight from your PLCs, so every line's losses are visible as they happen. |
| Changeover and cleaning visibility | Track product changeovers and allergen cleandowns as your own downtime codes and see them ranked in the Pareto, logged manually. | Separates changeover and cleaning time from true faults on every line, closing the loop from PLC-read OEE to a work order. |
Frequently asked questions
Is the OEE Lab tracker really free for a bakery?
Yes. Open the free OEE tracker and start logging shifts with no signup and no account. Your data stays in your browser on the device you use, and you can export to CSV or JSON any time.
Can it handle oven, proofer and wrapping-line downtime categories?
Yes. You set your own downtime reason codes, so oven band trips, proofer holds, mixer overloads, divider and moulder faults, wrapping jams, allergen cleandowns and product changeovers are just categories you name once and log against on every shift.
Why does bakery OEE often run lower than the headline number?
Bakery lines carry frequent product changeovers and allergen cleandowns, temperature and humidity-sensitive proofing that holds the line, and a stream of short wrapping-line stops. Those short, frequent losses are the hardest to track by hand and the easiest to undercount, which is exactly why logging them matters.
What is a good OEE benchmark for a bakery line?
The free tracker compares every shift against a widely used world-class OEE reference. Many bakery lines sit well below that once changeovers, cleandowns and wrapping micro-stops are counted honestly, so the benchmark is there to show the real gap rather than flatter the numbers.
When do I need more than the free tracker?
Once you are running multiple lines or plants and manual shift entry becomes the bottleneck, or you keep re-investigating the same wrapping and proofer stops shift after shift. That is the point to book a Fabrico demo and see automatic PLC-read OEE with computer-vision true-cause and auto-routed work orders.
Does the free tool support audit-readiness for bakery records?
You can export shift, downtime and work-order history to CSV or JSON and print a PDF report, which gives you a portable paper trail you keep yourself. For centralised, role-controlled records with a full audit trail and EU data residency, that is where Fabrico fits.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
The free tracker gets a bakery line honest numbers fast, but the losses that dominate it (short wrapping jams, proofer holds, mixer overloads and long changeover cleandowns) are the hardest to catch by hand, shift after shift. Fabrico reads OEE automatically off your PLCs, so no one has to log a stop mid-run. Its computer vision pins down the true cause of each micro-stop with video evidence, and it closes the loop by auto-routing a work order the moment a loss is detected, across every line and site. Because it is EU-built with EU data residency and certified to ISO 27001, 20000-1 and 9001, it also supports audit-readiness for your quality team. When manual logging starts costing more than it saves, book a Fabrico demo.
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