Metromotion Controls built and programmed the lines that produce your data. We know which tag is the real count, which state means starved and which means faulted, and why a stop is booked where it is. So the data we deliver matches what the line did, and your team can run a smarter factory on it: live line data, work orders, recipes and batches, MES, reports, scheduling and analytics.
Getting useful information from the factory floor is usually treated as an IT or consulting project. A consultant spends the first weeks learning what each machine does and what each signal means, then hands a design to someone else to build. The information was in the control system all along.
Metromotion Controls has designed, programmed, commissioned and supported food, beverage and dairy lines across Australia since 2012. Plant intelligence is the same work carried one step further: from the PLC logic we wrote to the OEE, reports, records and alerts your people use to run the plant.
Useful plant information depends on five things being right. Each one is a place where data projects usually stall, and each one is easier for the team that wrote the control logic.
Production, quality, food safety, scheduling, maintenance, utilities and improvement teams all depend on what the line did. Captured once, with context, the same data answers each team's questions without a second data-entry job.
Much of this work is built on Ignition. Metromotion Controls has been an Ignition Gold Certified System Integrator since 2017, and also delivers on the SCADA, historian and reporting tools a site already runs.
Each of these projects is documented on this site. Together they cover OEE and reporting, CIP records, quality data, maintenance integration and batch traceability.
Plant intelligence is useful information taken from the factory floor and put in front of the people who run the plant: OEE and downtime, work orders, recipes and batch records, quality and food safety records, schedules, maintenance, utilities and analytics, built from the data the PLCs and SCADA already produce.
A smarter factory runs on data it can trust, captured once from the control system and used by every team. In practice that means orders and recipes that reach the line without retyping, live status and losses visible as they happen, records that write themselves, and analysis that leads to changes on the line. It is built one line and one decision at a time, not bought as a single platform.
A consultant starts by learning what each machine and signal means, then hands a design to someone else to build. Metromotion Controls builds and programs production lines, so on lines we built that knowledge is already in hand, and on other lines we read the PLC code before trusting a signal. The same team delivers the data layer and supports it.
Usually not to start. Most first stages run on the PLCs, SCADA and SQL database already on site, with Ignition added where it fits. Reports can go to Power BI, email or the existing SCADA. Larger platforms are added only when the first line proves the data.
Yes. We start by reading the PLC code and tracing each signal to the logic that sets it. Lines we built start with that knowledge already in hand, which shortens the work.
With one line and one decision the plant wants to make better, usually downtime and OEE. We prove the data on that line with the people who use it, then extend to quality, CIP, maintenance, scheduling or utilities.
Tell us which line and which question matters most. An engineer who knows the control system will tell you what data already exists and what a first stage would take.