Free maintenance management software: work orders, PM, and assets, no cost
Run your work orders board, preventive maintenance schedule, and asset register free in your browser, no account and no seat caps to plan around.
The short answer
- Open the free OEE tracker and light CMMS at oeelab.com/oee-tracker and start logging in about 2 minutes, no signup required.
- You get a work orders board, a preventive maintenance schedule, and an asset register, plus OEE and downtime tracking in the same tool.
- Data stays in your browser as a local, installable PWA, with people and roles on one device and CSV/JSON export whenever you need the data elsewhere.
- When a plant needs PLC-fed data, camera video of stops (where cameras are fitted) with a suggested cause, work orders opened from stops, or multi-site visibility, that is when it is time to book a Fabrico demo.
Most maintenance teams do not start with a full CMMS rollout. They start with a whiteboard, a spreadsheet, or a stack of paper work orders, and the first real upgrade is just getting that work into one shared, trackable place. The free OEE Lab tracker at oeelab.com/oee-tracker gives you that upgrade today: a work orders board, a preventive maintenance schedule, and an asset register, alongside OEE tracking, with no account and no cost.
This is genuinely free maintenance management software, not a disguised trial. It runs in your browser as an installable PWA, keeps your data on your device, and lets people sign in locally with roles so more than one person on the line can use it. You can export everything as CSV or JSON whenever you want it in another system. If you are still sizing up whether a paid CMMS is worth it, run the numbers first with the CMMS ROI calculator or the downtime cost calculator.
The honest tradeoff is that this free tool is standalone and manual: you enter data by hand, investigate causes yourself, and raise work orders yourself, all on one device. That is exactly the ceiling that a platform like Fabrico is built to remove once a plant is serious about it, with automatic PLC data capture, camera video of stops (where cameras are fitted) with a suggested cause, and work orders opened from the stop. See how to choose OEE or CMMS software for the fuller picture.
What you get, free
Work orders board
Create, assign, and move work orders through a simple board, so reactive maintenance requests stop living on sticky notes or in someone's head.
Preventive maintenance schedule
Set up recurring PM tasks against your assets so scheduled maintenance actually gets tracked instead of relying on memory.
Asset register
Build a register of your machines and equipment as the backbone for both your PM schedule and your OEE tracking.
Shift logging in about 2 minutes
Log a shift fast and get instant OEE with the availability, performance, and quality breakdown, plus a downtime Pareto to see your biggest losses.
World-class benchmark and shareable scorecard
Compare your OEE to an 85% world-class benchmark (traced to Nakajima, Introduction to TPM, 1988) and share a scorecard with your team or your boss.
Installable, local, exportable
Install it as a PWA, keep data in your browser with local sign-in for people and roles on one device, and export CSV or JSON any time.
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, data stays in your browser. | Tracks OEE and downtime live from PLCs, IoT sensors or AI cameras. |
| From loss to fix | You spot the loss, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A technician opens the work order straight from the stop, in the same system. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate short stops yourself and note the reason. | Where cameras are fitted, the video of a stop sits next to its machine data, with AI-suggested likely causes the team validates. |
| Scope and multi-site | One plant on one device and browser, best for a single line or shift. | Plant-wide and multi-site from one central cloud view. |
| Integrations | Standalone, run it on its own, export data when you need it elsewhere. | Connects to your PLCs and syncs with SAP and other ERPs through integrations and a REST API. |
| 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. |
| Security posture | Data stays local in your browser, on the device you use. | SSO, roles, and audit trail that support audit-readiness (ISO 27001, 20000-1, 9001). |
| Support and onboarding | Self-serve, start free with no account and no setup call. | Guided onboarding and ongoing support from the Fabrico team. |
| Scale | The best genuinely free way to start on one line, today. | The professional platform you graduate to as the plant gets serious. |
Frequently asked questions
Is this actually free, or a trial in disguise?
It is genuinely free. The OEE Lab tracker at oeelab.com/oee-tracker runs with no account, no card, and no expiry. Compare that to the free plans from MaintainX or Fiix, which are real free entry points but are generally on-ramps into their paid plans, with limits as you grow.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in your browser and you can install it as a PWA for quicker access, but there is no software to deploy and no IT ticket needed to get started.
Can more than one person use it?
Yes, it supports local sign-in with people and roles on one device, so a shift lead and a technician can both use it. It is scoped to one plant on one device and browser, not a central multi-user cloud account.
What happens to my data?
Your data stays in your browser on the device you use. You can export it as CSV or JSON any time you want it in a spreadsheet or another system.
How is this different from a spreadsheet or whiteboard?
Spreadsheets and whiteboards are the true zero-cost default many plants start on, and they work as a fast first pass. This tool gets you the same starting point plus a structured work orders board, a PM schedule, an asset register, and instant OEE math with a downtime Pareto, without you building the formulas yourself.
When should we move to Fabrico instead?
Once manual shift entry becomes a bottleneck, once you want the platform to put video next to each stop and suggest the likely cause, with the work order opened from the stop, or once you are running more than one line or site and need a central view with SSO and audit trail. That is what Fabrico is built for. Book a Fabrico demo to see it on your own data.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
The free tracker is the fastest genuinely free way to get work orders, PM, and an asset register running on one line today. But maintenance management gets harder to run by hand as a plant grows: more lines, more sites, more people who need a role and an audit trail, and losses that need a true root cause instead of a guess. Fabrico tracks OEE and downtime live from PLCs, IoT sensors or AI cameras, puts the video of a stop next to its machine data where cameras are fitted, with AI-suggested likely causes, and lets a technician open the work order from the stop, all from an EU-built platform with data hosted in the AWS EU region. When the plant is ready to graduate from manual tracking to a system, book a Fabrico demo.
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