Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Warehousing
Track the losses that actually hit distribution centres, conveyor and sorter jams, dock door faults, and MHE breakdowns, free in your browser. Then see how Fabrico reads the same losses off your sorter and conveyor PLCs.
The short answer
- Start free: the OEE Lab tracker at oee-tracker.html logs a shift in about 2 minutes with warehouse downtime codes (conveyor jam, sorter induction fault, dock door fault, MHE breakdown), no account needed.
- What you get: instant OEE with availability, performance and quality, a downtime Pareto, a per-machine breakdown, a work order board, PM schedule, asset register, printable PDF report, and CSV or JSON export, all free and local to your browser.
- Its honest limit: you still log shifts by hand and chase conveyor and sorter jam causes yourself, and it runs on one device for one site.
- When to upgrade: once sorter and conveyor micro-stops need automatic PLC capture and computer-vision true-cause across multiple sites, that is when a Fabrico demo pays off.
Distribution centres lose throughput in short, fast bursts, not one big breakdown. It is a carton jammed at a merge, a sorter induction that keeps read-failing, a print-and-apply head that misfires, a dock leveller that faults, and a reach truck down at the far aisle. Each stop is a minute or two, but across a sortation line running thousands of cartons an hour, a handful an hour quietly swallows capacity your throughput report never shows. A free downtime tracker and a simple free CMMS put those minutes on the record.
The free OEE tracker is built for exactly that: log a shift in about 2 minutes, tag each stop with your own warehouse reason codes, and get a downtime Pareto that shows which loss (conveyor jams, sorter faults, dock delays) is actually costing the most. See what OEE is for how uptime, throughput and mis-sorts roll into availability, performance and quality on an automated line, and which maintenance KPIs to watch alongside it.
Start with the tracker to get honest numbers on the table. If you are weighing tools, how to choose OEE and CMMS software walks the trade-offs, and the cost of downtime sizes the prize. Once a site is serious about catching the fast losses and closing the loop from a detected stop to a fixed asset, that is where Fabrico comes in.
What you get, free
2-minute shift logging
Log run time, stops, throughput and good count for a shift in about 2 minutes. Set your own downtime reason codes for what hits a DC hardest: conveyor jam, sorter induction fault, read-failure, divert fault, print-and-apply misfire, dock door fault and MHE breakdown.
Instant OEE and downtime Pareto
Get availability, performance and quality the moment you save a shift, plus a downtime Pareto that ranks jams, sorter faults and dock delays so you know which loss to chase first.
Per-machine breakdown
A per-machine breakdown shows whether a specific inductor, merge or divert is dragging the line, so you can target the worst asset instead of guessing across the whole system.
Work order board
When a shift log surfaces a jam-prone divert or a dock leveller that keeps faulting, raise a work order right on the board and track it through to done, no separate tool.
PM schedule and asset register
Keep conveyors, sorters, dock levellers, doors, reach trucks and forklifts in one register with preventive maintenance schedules attached, so belt, chain and roller service does not slip between peaks.
Export, backup, PDF report, PWA install
Export to CSV or JSON whenever you need the data elsewhere, take a full backup and restore it on another device, print a PDF shift report, and install the tracker as an app on a shop-floor tablet.
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 2 minutes with warehouse reason codes, data stays in your browser. | Reads OEE and uptime automatically off your sorter and conveyor PLCs, no manual entry. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate conveyor jams, sorter read-failures and divert faults yourself and note the reason. | Computer vision identifies the true cause of each micro-stop, with video evidence, exactly the fast failure mode that dominates automated sortation. |
| Loss-to-fix loop | You spot the recurring jam or fault pattern, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A detected loss on the PLC becomes an auto-routed work order, closing the loop from stop to fix. |
| Scope and multi-site | One site on one device and browser, best for a single line or shift. | Plant-wide and multi-site from one central view, useful once you run several lines or a DC network. |
| Integrations | Standalone, run it on its own, export data when you need it elsewhere. | Connects to your PLCs so OEE flows from the line into work orders. |
| Access and roles | Local device sign-in with people and roles on that one device. | Org sign-in with roles across every site and a full audit trail. |
| Data residency | Data stays local in your browser, on the device you use. | EU-built with EU data residency, and ISO 27001, 20000-1 and 9001 certification that supports audit-readiness. |
| Reporting | Instant OEE, availability, performance, quality, a downtime Pareto, per-machine breakdown, a printable PDF and CSV or JSON export you run yourself. | Live plant-wide dashboards plus scheduled reports delivered automatically. |
| Peak-season scale | A genuinely free way to start on one line or one shift, today. | The platform you graduate to once conveyor, sorter, dock and MHE losses need automatic PLC tracking across every line and site through peak. |
Frequently asked questions
Is the OEE Lab tracker really free for a distribution centre?
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, or take a backup and restore it on another machine.
How do I quantify conveyor and sorter micro-stops on a fast line?
Set conveyor jam, sorter induction fault, read-failure, divert fault and dock delay as your own downtime reason codes, then log every stop against them per shift. The downtime Pareto then shows the short-stop cost your throughput count hides. See what OEE is for how these roll into availability, performance and quality, and free downtime tracking for the logging pattern.
Does OEE even apply to an automated warehouse line?
Yes. On a sortation or conveyor line, availability is sorter and conveyor uptime, performance is actual cartons per hour against the rated rate, and quality is the share that route cleanly without mis-sorts or read-failures. The tracker gives you all three per shift and a per-machine OEE breakdown so a slow inductor or a jam-prone divert stands out.
How should I read the OEE score on a sortation line?
Treat each shift's OEE as a baseline and track the gap over time as you count short jams and read-failures honestly. What matters is the trend on your own line, not a single number. See which maintenance KPIs to pair with it so availability, performance and quality do not move in isolation.
Can it track dock doors and MHE, not just conveyors?
Yes. Keep dock levellers, doors, sorters, conveyors, reach trucks and forklifts in the asset register with preventive maintenance schedules attached, and raise a work order the moment a shift log turns up a recurring fault. It stays a light, single-device record, not a fleet telematics system.
When do I need more than the free tracker?
Once manual shift entry becomes the bottleneck across several lines or sites, or you keep re-investigating the same conveyor and sorter jams shift after shift through peak, 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. Weigh the trade-offs first with how to choose OEE and CMMS software.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
The free tracker gets a distribution centre honest numbers fast, but the losses that dominate automated material handling (frequent short conveyor jams, sorter read-failures and divert faults, plus dock and MHE stops) are the hardest to catch by hand at line speed, shift after shift through peak. Fabrico reads OEE and uptime automatically off your sorter and conveyor 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 jam or fault pattern repeats on the line. It runs across every line and every site from one central view, and it is built and hosted in the EU with EU data residency and ISO 27001, 20000-1 and 9001 certification behind it, which supports audit-readiness. A Fabrico demo shows the same losses you logged by hand being read and routed straight from the line.
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