Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Cement and Concrete Plants
Track the losses that actually cost a cement plant (kiln stops, mill and crusher downtime, conveyor trips, and dust and wear) for free today. Automate the whole loop with Fabrico when the plant is ready to scale.
The short answer
- Use the free OEE tracker at oee-tracker.html to log kiln, mill, crusher, and packing shifts in about 2 minutes, no account needed.
- It gives you instant OEE with availability, performance, and quality, a downtime Pareto built around your own stops (kiln trips, mill stops, preheater blockages), and a work order board and PM schedule at no cost.
- Its honest limit: you log data by hand, investigate the cause of each stop yourself, and it runs on one plant on one device, not across a multi-site cement group.
- When you need automatic PLC-read OEE, computer-vision true-cause on micro-stops with video evidence, and a closed loop to auto-routed work orders, Fabrico is the honest paid upgrade.
Cement and concrete losses are not the short, repeating micro-stops of a fast assembly line. You lose time to kiln trips and long heat-up ramps, raw mill and cement mill stops, crusher jams, conveyor trips, preheater and cyclone buildups, and clinker cooler faults, most of them big single stops on a continuous run. A whiteboard or a spreadsheet was never built to track downtime like that, and the real cost of a kiln stop is easy to under-count when nobody is logging the hours cleanly.
The free OEE tracker at OEE Lab lets you log a shift in about 2 minutes with your own downtime categories, see instant OEE with availability, performance, and quality, and get a downtime Pareto that shows which stop is really eating the run. It also carries a work order board, a preventive-maintenance schedule, and an asset register, so you can run early CMMS discipline on kilns, mills, and crushers without buying anything.
It runs in your browser with no account or card, and your data stays on your device. When manual entry, one-device scope, or the lack of automatic true-cause detection starts to cap what you can do, that is the point to look at Fabrico, the professional manufacturing-intelligence platform that automates the whole loop. New to the metric? Start with the what is OEE primer, or browse all the free software.
What you get, free
Shift logging in about 2 minutes
Log a cement shift (kiln runs, mill throughput, crusher and packing hours, and any stops) and get instant OEE with the availability, performance, and quality breakdown, no account to open first.
Downtime Pareto built for cement stops
Tag downtime by your own categories (kiln trips, heat-up ramps, mill stops, preheater or cyclone blockages, cooler faults, and belt trips) then see the Pareto that shows which stop is costing the most run time this month.
Benchmark and per-machine breakdown
Compare your OEE against the standard 85% world-class benchmark and drill into a per-machine breakdown, so you know where a specific kiln line, mill, or crusher actually stands instead of a single blended number.
Work order board and PM schedule
Raise a work order the moment you spot wear (refractory, mill liners, crusher hammers, a slipping belt) and keep a preventive-maintenance schedule for the kiln, mills, crushers, and conveyors that abrasion and dust punish hardest.
Asset register, export, and backup
Keep a simple register of kilns, raw and cement mills, crushers, and conveyors, export everything to CSV or JSON for a review, and use backup and restore so your history is never trapped in one browser.
PDF report, scorecard, and app install
Print a shift or period report as a PDF, share a scorecard with the plant manager, install the tracker as a browser app for shop-floor use, and give an operator, shift lead, and tech their own local sign-in on the one device.
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 kiln, mill, crusher, or packing shift by hand in about 2 minutes, data stays in your browser. | Reads OEE automatically off your PLCs, no manual entry across kiln, mill, and crusher lines. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate short stops (crusher jams, packing-line stalls, belt trips) yourself and note the reason. | Computer vision identifies the true cause of each micro-stop, with video evidence. |
| Loss-to-fix loop | You spot the loss, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A detected loss becomes an auto-routed work order, assigned the moment it happens. |
| Scope and multi-site | One plant on one device and browser, best for a single kiln line, mill, or shift. | Plant-wide and multi-site from one central view, across every cement works. |
| PLC loop | Standalone, run it on its own and export data by hand when you need it elsewhere. | Connects to your PLCs so OEE and losses flow straight into auto-routed work orders. |
| Access and roles | Local device sign-in with people and roles on that one device. | Org SSO and roles across the plant, with an audit trail that supports audit-readiness. |
| Data residency | Data stays local in your browser, on the device you use on the floor. | EU-built with EU data residency, plus SSO, roles, and an audit trail that support audit-readiness (ISO 27001, 20000-1, 9001). |
| Reporting | Instant OEE, availability, performance, quality, a downtime Pareto, a printable PDF report, and CSV/JSON export you run yourself. | Live plant-wide dashboards plus scheduled reports delivered automatically. |
| Kiln and mill reliability | Track kiln trips, mill stops, and refractory or liner wear as your own downtime categories and PM tasks, one device at a time. | Continuous loss monitoring across kiln, mills, and crushers, tied straight to auto-routed work orders. |
Frequently asked questions
Is the OEE Lab tracker really free for a cement plant?
Yes. Open the free OEE tracker and log a shift, no account and no card. It runs in your browser and your data stays on your device. There is no seat cap or trial clock, it is simply free to use.
Can it handle kiln stops and long heat-up ramps?
You log downtime in whatever categories fit your process: kiln trips, heat-up ramps, mill stops, preheater or cyclone blockages, cooler faults, and belt trips. The tracker computes availability, performance, and quality from your entries and gives you an instant OEE plus a downtime Pareto, so a single long stop shows up clearly against the shorter repeating ones.
Does it automatically find why a crusher or packing line keeps stopping for a minute or two?
No, and that is the honest limit of any manual tool. You still investigate and tag the reason for each short stop yourself. Fabrico's computer vision reads sub-5-minute micro-stops automatically and attaches video evidence of the true cause, which is the piece manual logging leaves to you.
How is this different from tracking cement OEE in a spreadsheet?
A spreadsheet can hold the numbers, but you maintain every formula, chart, and category by hand. The free tracker gives you instant OEE, a ready-made downtime Pareto, a per-machine breakdown, a benchmark, and a work order board and PM schedule in one place, with nothing to wire up. If you want the trade-offs laid out, see how to choose OEE and CMMS software.
When do I need more than the free tool?
When manual shift logging becomes the bottleneck, when you have more than one kiln line or one site to watch at once, or when you need OEE tied into PLC data with an automatic work order the moment a loss is detected. That is the point where booking a Fabrico demo makes sense.
Can I run the free tracker on the shop floor with my team?
Yes, it supports local sign-in with people and roles on one device, so an operator, a shift lead, and a maintenance tech can each log in on the same tablet or PC. It is built for a single plant on one device. If you need that view across multiple cement works centrally, that is a Fabrico-level capability.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
A cement plant that gets serious about OEE hits the same wall fast: kiln, mill, and crusher losses pile up as big single stops and repeating short ones that are hard to reason-code by hand, shift after shift. Fabrico reads OEE automatically off your PLCs across every kiln line, mill, and crusher, uses computer vision to pinpoint the true cause of each micro-stop with video evidence, and closes the loop by auto-routing a work order the moment a loss is detected. It is EU-built with EU data residency and supports audit-readiness against ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001, so the data stays where your compliance team expects it. That is the point where manual tracking stops being enough and a live, plant-wide system starts paying for itself. Book a Fabrico demo when you are ready to automate the whole loop.
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