Free OEE Dashboard Software: Log a Shift, Watch Your OEE Dashboard Go Live
Log each shift in about 2 minutes and get a live dashboard of OEE, availability, performance, quality, a downtime Pareto, a trend line, and a per-machine breakdown. No account, no time limit, and your data stays in your browser.
The short answer
- Open the free OEE dashboard at oeelab.com/oee-tracker, no account and no time limit.
- Log a shift in about 2 minutes and the dashboard shows OEE, availability, performance, and quality at a glance.
- The same view stacks a downtime Pareto, a trend line, and a per-machine breakdown as your shifts add up.
- When you need a dashboard fed automatically from your PLCs across several lines, that is the point to book a Fabrico demo.
A spreadsheet can hold your shift numbers, but it will not draw you a dashboard. The free OEE tracker at OEE Lab does exactly that: log a shift in about 2 minutes and the screen becomes a live OEE dashboard, with the headline number, the availability, performance, and quality split, a ranked downtime Pareto, and a shift-over-shift trend line, all calculated for you. No account, no time limit, and the data stays in the browser on your device. If you want the math behind the number first, the what is OEE guide walks through it in plain language.
A dashboard earns its place when it points at the next action. Every stop you log stacks into a live downtime Pareto, so the reason eating the most time stays at the top of the board, and the per-machine breakdown splits the plant figure by asset so you can see which line is dragging the average down. The maintenance KPI guide defines availability, performance, and quality if you want the reference beside the chart.
The honest limit is that this is a manual dashboard: you enter each shift, you decide why a stop happened, and the whole thing lives on one device in one browser. For a single line that is genuinely all you need, and you can pair it with the free work-order board and PM schedule that ship alongside it. A dashboard that updates itself straight from the machines, across several lines, is a different job, and further down we lay out plainly where the free tracker stops and where Fabrico takes over.
What you get, free
Live OEE dashboard
Log a shift and the screen turns into a single dashboard view, with the OEE headline number front and center and the reading refreshed the moment you save, so the whole team reads the same figure off one screen.
Availability, performance, quality split
The dashboard breaks OEE into its three losses so you can see at a glance whether availability, performance, or quality is the one pulling the number down, instead of staring at a single blended percentage.
Live downtime Pareto
Every stop you log with a reason stacks into a Pareto that reorders itself as the data grows, keeping your biggest recurring loss pinned at the top of the dashboard shift after shift.
Trend line and world-class benchmark
Each logged shift adds a point to a running trend for OEE and its losses, and your reading is plotted against the 85% world-class benchmark (traced to Nakajima, Introduction to TPM, 1988), so the dashboard shows both where you are heading and how far you have to go.
Per-machine breakdown
Register your assets and the dashboard splits OEE by machine, so you can jump from the plant number to the one line that needs attention and follow its own trend.
Print, share, export, install
Print a PDF dashboard report for a meeting, share an OEE scorecard from the device's share sheet, export the full history to CSV or JSON with a backup you can restore, and install the dashboard 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard feed | The dashboard refreshes when you log a shift by hand, about once a shift, on the device in front of you. | The dashboard is fed from your PLCs, IoT sensors or AI cameras, so it updates while the shift runs. |
| Data capture | Enter run time, stops, and units each shift in about 2 minutes; the data stays in your browser. | Tracks OEE and downtime live from PLCs, IoT sensors or AI cameras, while the line runs. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate short stops yourself and type in the reason you find. | Where cameras are fitted, the video of a stop sits next to its machine data, with AI-suggested likely causes the team validates. |
| From loss to fix | You spot a loss on the dashboard, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A technician opens the work order from the detected stop, in the same system. |
| Scope and multi-site | One plant on one device and browser, best for a single line or shift. | One dashboard spanning every line and every site from a central cloud view. |
| Integrations | Runs standalone; you export the data when you want it somewhere else. | Connects directly to your PLCs, so each reading and detected loss flows on into a work order opened from the stop. |
| Access and roles | A local device sign-in holds people and roles on that one device. | Organisation-wide sign-in and roles across the plant, with an activity history that supports audit-readiness. |
| Data residency | Everything stays in your own browser storage, on your own machine. | EU-built, with data hosted in the AWS EU region and ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001 certification that supports audit-readiness. |
| Reporting | A live on-screen dashboard, the A/P/Q split, a downtime Pareto, plus a printable PDF report and CSV/JSON export you run yourself. | Plant-wide live dashboards and reports to the people who need them. |
Frequently asked questions
Is this OEE dashboard software really free?
Yes. The OEE tracker and its dashboard are free with no signup and no time limit, no credit card and no seat cap. Your shift history stays in your browser on the device you use.
Do I need an account to see the dashboard?
No. Open oeelab.com/oee-tracker and log a shift; the dashboard appears right away. A local sign-in for people and roles on that one device is optional, not something you need to read the dashboard.
Is the dashboard real-time?
It is a manual dashboard, so it refreshes each time you log a shift, which takes about 2 minutes. That gives you one fresh reading per shift rather than a live feed; for a continuously updating dashboard you would move to an automatic, PLC-connected platform.
Can the dashboard show more than one machine?
Yes. Register your assets and the dashboard splits OEE by machine, so you can follow each line's own trend and see which one is pulling the plant average down, all on the same device.
Can I share or export what is on the dashboard?
Yes. Print a PDF dashboard report, share an OEE scorecard from your device, and export the full history to CSV or JSON any time, with a backup you can restore, so the numbers are yours to keep or hand off.
When do I need more than the free dashboard?
Once you need a dashboard fed live from your PLCs, coverage across several lines or sites, or someone to actually pin down the cause of a micro-stop, manual single-device logging becomes the bottleneck. That is the point to book a Fabrico demo.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
A manual dashboard does one job well: it proves the numbers matter and gets everyone reading the same screen. The next problem is a different one, an operator retyping figures every shift, micro-stops nobody has time to chase one at a time, and a plant that now runs more than one line. Fabrico feeds the dashboard straight off your PLCs, 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 a central, EU-built platform with data hosted in the AWS EU region and ISO 27001, 20000-1, and 9001 certification that supports audit-readiness. If that is where your line is heading, book a Fabrico demo.
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