How to use the Equipment effectiveness review template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Equipment effectiveness review template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Equipment effectiveness review”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Use a month of real data from one machine. Put the hours lost on each note, then let the biggest number decide the focus.”
Fill in each part
- Stops Breakdowns, changeovers and waiting for material.
- Running slow Running below rated speed, small stops and jams.
- Bad parts Scrap, rework and parts lost at start-up.
- This month’s score Availability × performance × quality.
- Biggest loss to attack One loss, an owner and a target.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Equipment effectiveness review board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Supplier performance review
Review a supplier on delivery, quality, cost and service, with evidence, and agree improvements together.
Changeover reduction
Cut the time a machine stands still between products by sorting each changeover step and moving work outside the stop.
Performance investigation
Work through a slowdown methodically: the symptom, measurements, a hypothesis, one change at a time and proof it helped.
Month-end close
Track every task needed to close the books each month, who owns it and what is waiting on someone else.
Expense claim process
Lay out how an expense goes from receipt to repayment, who checks what, and where claims get stuck or bounced back.
Cost saving ideas
Collect ideas to cut costs from everyone who spends money, then sort them by how much they save against how hard they are.