Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Dairy Processing Plants
Log CIP cycles, pasteuriser trips, filler stops and hygiene-driven downtime 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 dairy shift in about 2 minutes with your own downtime codes for CIP, pasteuriser trips, and filler jams, no account needed.
- What you get: instant OEE with availability, performance and quality, a downtime Pareto, 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 hygiene-driven stops yourself, and it runs on one device for one plant.
- When to upgrade: once CIP and changeover losses need automatic PLC capture and micro-stops need computer-vision true-cause across multiple lines, book a Fabrico demo.
Dairy plants lose OEE in ways a discrete factory rarely sees. It is not one big breakdown. It is the CIP cycle that overruns, a pasteuriser that trips on a flow or temperature fault and forces a slow restart, a filler that jams on cartons or caps, and a product changeover that runs long because the line has to be cleaned between runs. Each stop looks small, and together they quietly eat a shift, and most never reach a spreadsheet because nobody logs a three-minute hygiene stop mid-run.
The free OEE tracker is built for exactly this. Log a shift in about two minutes, tag every stop with your own dairy reason codes (CIP, pasteuriser trip, filler jam, flavour or allergen changeover, cold-chain hold), and get a downtime Pareto that shows which loss is really costing you the most run time. No account, nothing to install, and 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 and the primer on what OEE is put availability, performance and quality in dairy terms. Once a line is serious about closing the loop from a detected loss to a fixed one, that is where the paid upgrade earns its place.
What you get, free
2-minute shift logging
Capture run time, stops, scrap and good count for a shift in about two minutes. Name your own downtime reason codes for the losses that hit dairy hardest: CIP overruns, pasteuriser trips, filler jams, cap and carton faults, and changeover cleaning.
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 CIP, changeover, or micro-stops is stealing the most run time this week.
World-class OEE benchmark
Every shift is measured against the widely used 85% world-class OEE figure, so you can see at a glance how far a filling or pasteurising line is running short and watch the gap move over time.
Work order board
When a shift log turns up a seal that keeps weeping or a valve that trips CIP, raise a work order on the board and track it from open to done, so recurring hygiene stops actually get fixed.
PM schedule, asset register and roles
Keep a register of your fillers, pasteurisers, separators and CIP sets with preventive-maintenance schedules attached, and assign people and roles, so routine gasket and valve work does not fall through the gaps between shifts.
Export, backup and a shareable scorecard
Export everything to CSV or JSON, back up and restore your data, print a clean PDF report, and share a scorecard with a shift lead or plant manager. 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 CIP and pasteuriser stops, with data kept in your browser. | Reads OEE automatically off your PLCs, so fillers, pasteurisers and CIP cycles are captured with no manual entry. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate filler jams, cap faults and short hygiene stops 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 dairy fillers. |
| Loss-to-fix loop | You spot the recurring jam or leaking valve, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A detected loss becomes an auto-routed work order, assigned 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 filling line or dairy site. |
| 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 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. |
| CIP and changeover visibility | Track CIP and changeover as your own downtime codes and see them ranked in the Pareto, logged manually. | Separates CIP, changeover and cold-chain holds 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 dairy plant?
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 CIP and pasteuriser downtime categories?
Yes. You set your own downtime reason codes, so CIP, pasteuriser trips, filler jams, flavour or allergen changeover, and cold-chain holds are just categories you name once and log against on every shift.
Why does dairy OEE often run lower than other industries?
Dairy lines carry mandatory CIP and cleaning between runs, temperature-sensitive pasteurising that trips and restarts slowly, and frequent sub-five-minute filler stops. Those short, hygiene-driven 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 dairy line?
The free tracker compares every shift against the widely used 85% world-class OEE figure. Most dairy filling and processing lines sit well below that once CIP, changeover and micro-stops are counted honestly, so the benchmark is there to show you the real gap rather than flatter the numbers.
When do I need more than the free tracker?
Once you are running multiple lines or sites and manual shift entry becomes the bottleneck, or you keep re-investigating the same filler and CIP 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 hygiene 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 dairy line honest numbers fast, but the losses that dominate it (sub-five-minute filler jams, CIP overruns, pasteuriser trips and long changeover cleaning) are the hardest to catch by hand, shift after shift. Fabrico reads OEE automatically off your PLCs, so no one has to log a hygiene 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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