Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Textile Manufacturing
Track the losses that actually drag textile OEE down (yarn breaks, loom and knitting-machine micro-stops, changeovers, and speed losses) free in your browser with no account. See where Fabrico captures the same losses straight off your machines when a mill is ready to scale.
The short answer
- Start free: the OEE Lab tracker at oee-tracker.html logs a textile shift in about 2 minutes with your own reason codes (warp break, weft break, ends-down, style change), 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 CSV or JSON export, all free and local to your browser.
- Its honest limit: you enter every shift by hand and chase yarn-break and micro-stop causes yourself, and it runs on one plant on one device or browser.
- When to upgrade: once loom, knitting, and spinning losses need capture straight off the machines and micro-stops need computer-vision true-cause across every machine, book a demo with Fabrico.
Textile mills lose OEE in ways a generic dashboard never sees. A weave room bleeds time to warp and weft breaks that stop a loom for under a minute or two, style and beam changeovers that run long, and looms quietly running below their rated pick rate all shift. On the knitting side it is needle breaks and dropped stitches, and in spinning it is ends-down on the ring frame and doffing. Each stop is tiny on its own, none of it fits neatly on a whiteboard, and most of it never gets written down because nobody has time to log a break that lasts under a minute.
The free OEE tracker is built for exactly that. Log a shift in about 2 minutes, tag stops with your own textile reason codes (warp break, weft break, ends-down, creel change, style change), and get a downtime Pareto that shows which loss is actually costing the most. It works as light downtime tracking software too, with a per-machine breakdown so you can compare one loom or knitting machine against the next. No account, nothing to install, and your data stays in your browser.
Start with the tracker to get honest numbers on the table, then size the prize: short repeated stops add up faster than most mills expect, which is the whole point of the cost of downtime. The free tool is genuinely useful for one plant on one device, and it stays free. When a mill outgrows manual logging and wants those same losses captured straight off every machine, that is where Fabrico comes in.
What you get, free
2-minute shift logging
Log run time, stops, scrap, and good count for a shift in about 2 minutes. Set your own downtime reason codes for the losses that hit textile floors hardest: warp breaks, weft breaks, ends-down, style changeovers, creel changes, and doffing.
Instant OEE and downtime Pareto
Get availability, performance, and quality the moment you save a shift, plus a downtime Pareto that ranks your worst loss categories so you know whether breaks, changeovers, or speed losses are hurting you most.
Per-machine breakdown
Log looms, knitting machines, and ring frames separately, then compare them so you can see which asset is dragging the floor's OEE down instead of guessing from a plant-wide average.
World-class benchmark
Every shift is compared against the widely cited 85% world-class OEE benchmark, so you can see at a glance how far a machine is running short and track the gap week over week.
Work order board, PM schedule, and asset register
When a shift log turns up a loom that keeps stopping or a frame overdue for service, raise a work order on the board, keep a preventive-maintenance schedule, and hold a simple register of your looms, knitting machines, and frames.
CSV and JSON export, roles on one device
Export your data to CSV or JSON whenever you need it in a review or spreadsheet, and let an operator, shift lead, and maintenance tech each sign in with their own role 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 textile shift by hand in about 2 minutes, breaks and changeovers included, and your data stays in your browser. | Reads OEE straight off your machine PLCs, so loom, knitting, and spinning run data lands with no manual entry. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate each yarn break, needle break, or short stop yourself and note the reason on the log. | Computer vision identifies the true cause of each micro-stop and attaches video evidence, the exact failure mode that dominates weave and knit rooms. |
| Loss-to-fix loop | You spot the recurring stop or defect, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A detected loss becomes an auto-routed work order sent to the right technician, closing the PLC-to-work-order loop. |
| Speed-loss tracking | You record when a loom or frame ran below its rated speed and estimate the performance loss by hand. | PLC-read run data captures rate loss continuously, so a loom running under its rated pick rate shows up without anyone timing it. |
| Scope and multi-site | One plant on one device and browser, best for a single weave room, knit floor, or shift. | The same PLC-to-work-order loop runs across every loom, frame, and hall from one place, so scaling up does not mean re-keying data by hand. |
| Integrations | Standalone by design, run it on its own and export data when you need it elsewhere. | Connects straight to your machine PLCs so detected losses flow into work orders automatically rather than living in a separate log. |
| Access and roles | Local sign-in with people and roles on that one device. | Backed by ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001 certification, plant-wide access sits on a platform built to support audit-readiness. |
| Data residency | Data stays local in your browser, on the device you use on the floor. | EU-built with EU data residency, and certified to ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001 to support audit-readiness. |
| Reporting | Instant OEE, availability, performance, quality, a downtime Pareto, and CSV or JSON export you run yourself. | Because OEE is read continuously off the PLCs, every loss and its true cause is logged for review rather than re-keyed by hand. |
Frequently asked questions
Is the OEE Lab tracker really free for a textile mill?
Yes. Open the free OEE tracker and start logging shifts with no signup and no account. It runs in your browser, your data stays on the device you use, and you can export to CSV or JSON any time. There is no seat cap and no trial clock, it is simply free to use.
Can it handle textile losses like yarn breaks and style changeovers?
Yes. You set your own downtime reason codes, so warp breaks, weft breaks, ends-down, needle breaks, creel changes, beam changes, and style changeovers are just categories you name once and log against on every shift. The tracker turns them into an instant OEE plus a downtime Pareto.
Does it tell me why a loom 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. Reading sub-5-minute micro-stops automatically and attaching video evidence of the true cause is a Fabrico capability, which is the piece manual logging leaves to you.
Can I track more than one loom or knitting machine?
Yes. The per-machine breakdown lets you log and compare individual looms, knitting machines, or ring frames, so you can see which one is dragging the floor down. It is still one plant on one device, though, seeing several halls or mills in one place is where a platform like Fabrico fits.
How is this different from a free CMMS trial?
Many free CMMS tiers focus on getting work orders and PM schedules off paper, and some cap users, assets, or history as an on-ramp to a paid plan. The OEE Lab tracker is OEE-first, with a work order board and PM schedule built in, free with no seat caps and no signup to start. If you want to weigh both, see how to choose OEE and CMMS software.
When does a mill outgrow the free tracker?
When manual shift entry becomes the bottleneck, when you need to see more than one hall or mill at once, or when you keep re-investigating the same yarn-break and micro-stop causes shift after shift. That is the point to book a Fabrico demo and see PLC-read OEE with computer-vision true-cause and an auto-routed work order the moment a loss is detected.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
The free tracker gets a textile mill honest numbers fast, but the losses that dominate weave, knit, and spin (yarn and needle breaks that stop a machine for under a minute, changeovers that run long, and looms quietly running below their rated pick rate) are exactly the ones that are hardest to catch by hand, shift after shift. Fabrico reads OEE straight off your machine PLCs, uses computer vision to identify 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, across every loom, frame, and site. It is EU-built with EU data residency and certified to ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001 to support audit-readiness. When manual logging stops keeping up with the floor, book a Fabrico demo and see the whole loop run automatically.
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