Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Woodworking and Furniture Plants
Track the losses that actually eat a woodworking shift (blade and bit changes, dust and chip jams, CNC setups, small-batch changeovers) for free today, then 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 a woodworking or furniture shift in about 2 minutes, no account and no card.
- It gives you instant OEE, a downtime Pareto built around your own stops (blade and bit changes, dust and chip jams, CNC setups), plus a work order board and PM schedule at no cost.
- Its honest limit: you enter data by hand, investigate short stops yourself, and it runs on one device for one plant, not across a multi-site furniture group.
- When you need automatic PLC capture, computer-vision true-cause on micro-stops, and a closed loop to auto-routed work orders, book a demo with Fabrico.
Woodworking and furniture losses do not look like a generic assembly line's losses. You lose time to saw blade and router bit changes, dust extraction and chip jams, beam saw and CNC nesting setups, sanding and edgebanding stops, and small-batch changeovers where every new cabinet run means a fresh program and fresh fixtures. A whiteboard or spreadsheet was never built to Pareto that kind of downtime.
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 exactly which stop is costing the most. It also carries a work order board, a preventive-maintenance schedule, and an asset register, so you can run early CMMS discipline on saws, routers, and moulders without buying anything.
It runs in your browser, no account or card required, 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? The what is OEE primer walks through availability, performance, and quality in plain terms.
What you get, free
Shift logging in about 2 minutes
Log a woodworking or furniture shift (saw and router runs, blade changes, jams, scrap) and get instant OEE with the availability, performance, and quality breakdown.
Downtime Pareto built for woodworking stops
Tag downtime by your own categories, blade and bit changes, dust and chip jams, CNC setups, edgebander faults, and see the Pareto that shows which stop is actually costing the most time this month.
Work order board and PM schedule
Raise a work order the moment you spot a loss (a dull blade, a clogged dust hood, a slipping feed belt) and keep a preventive-maintenance schedule for saws, routers, moulders, and sanders.
Asset register with per-machine breakdown
Keep a simple register of panel saws, CNC routers, edgebanders, and presses, then read a per-machine OEE breakdown so you can see which cell is dragging the line.
World-class benchmark comparison
Compare your OEE against the standard 85% world-class benchmark so you know where a saw, router, or line actually stands, not just a number in isolation.
Export, backup, and PDF report
Export everything to CSV or JSON, back up and restore your data on your device, and print a PDF report, all with no signup to get started.
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 saw or router shift by hand in about 2 minutes; data stays in your browser. | Reads OEE automatically off your PLCs, so nesting routers, beam saws, and moulders report without manual entry. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate short stops (a blade change, a chip jam, a fixture reset) yourself and note the reason. | Computer vision identifies the true cause of each micro-stop, with video evidence of what happened. |
| 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 in a closed PLC-to-work-order loop, assigned to the right tech. |
| Scope and multi-site | One plant on one device and browser, best for a single line, cell, or shift. | Plant-wide and multi-site from one central view, across every furniture and joinery site. |
| Integrations | Standalone; run it on its own and export your data when you need it elsewhere. | Connects PLC data to work orders so OEE flows through the rest of your stack. |
| Access and roles | Local device sign-in with people and roles on that one device. | Org SSO with roles across the plant and a full audit trail. |
| Data residency | Data stays local in your browser, on the device you use on the floor. | EU-built with EU data residency, and certified against ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001 to support audit-readiness. |
| Reporting | Instant OEE, availability, performance, quality, a downtime Pareto, and CSV/JSON export you run yourself. | Live plant-wide dashboards plus scheduled reports delivered automatically. |
| Changeover and setup time | Log CNC setup and small-batch changeover time as its own downtime category and watch it on the Pareto. | Captures setup and changeover automatically off machine state and trends it across every run and shift. |
Frequently asked questions
Is the OEE Lab tracker really free for a woodworking or furniture 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 blade changes, CNC setups, and small-batch changeovers?
You log downtime in whatever categories fit your process: blade and bit changes, dust and chip jams, beam saw and CNC nesting setups, edgebander faults, or scrap and rework. The tracker computes availability, performance, and quality from your entries and gives you an instant OEE plus a downtime Pareto so you can see what is actually eating the shift.
Does it tell me why a CNC router or saw 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 short micro-stops automatically and attaches video evidence of the true cause, which is the piece manual logging leaves to you.
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; a central view across multiple lines or sites is a Fabrico-level capability.
When does it make sense to move from the free tracker to Fabrico?
When manual shift logging becomes the bottleneck, when you have more than one line or one site to see at once, or when you want OEE captured straight off your PLCs with an automatic work order the moment a loss is detected. That is the point where booking a Fabrico demo makes sense.
Will my data leave my plant or get uploaded anywhere?
No. The free tracker keeps everything in your browser on the device you use, and you export a CSV or JSON backup whenever you want a copy. If you later need centralized, multi-site storage, Fabrico is EU-built with EU data residency and is certified against ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001 to support audit-readiness.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
A woodworking or furniture plant that gets serious about OEE hits the same wall fast: saws, routers, and edgebanders throw off short, repeating stops (blade swaps, chip jams, fixture resets) that are almost impossible to reason-code by hand, shift after shift. Fabrico reads OEE automatically off your PLCs across every saw, router, and moulder, 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 certified against ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001, so it supports audit-readiness as you scale. That is the point where manual tracking stops being enough and a live, plant-wide system starts paying for itself. When you are ready to see it on your own lines, book a Fabrico demo.
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