Chobani · Factory Automation Upgrades

OEE Data Platform and Production Reporting

At a glance

Industry

Yoghurt manufacturing

Platforms

Ignition SCADA, Rockwell ControlLogix, SQL Historian

Scale

OEE and downtime across production lines

Live OEE and downtime captured from PLC states, with shift-level and weekly management reports replacing manual spreadsheet collation.

Client

Chobani

Sector

Food & Beverage

Engagement

OEE data platform and production reporting

Technologies

Ignition SCADA, Rockwell ControlLogix, SQL Historian, OEE Reporting

Overview

Scope & approach

Building on the greenfield automation delivered at Chobani's Australian facility, Metromotion Controls was engaged to develop an OEE data platform that gave the operations team structured visibility of line performance, availability losses, and production output. The project connected existing PLC infrastructure to a centralised reporting environment, establishing consistent downtime reason codes, shift-level OEE calculation, and management dashboards aligned to how the site teams already ran daily reviews.

Outcomes

What was delivered

Live OEE calculation and downtime event capture was integrated directly from PLC states across production lines.
Consistent reason-code definitions across shifts gave the operations team a Pareto they could use in daily reviews.
Shift-level and weekly management reports replaced manual spreadsheet collation and removed re-keying between systems.

Deliverables

Scope items

OEE calculation model and downtime event capture architecture integrated with existing PLC infrastructure
Reason-code framework design and operator interface for live downtime entry and event classification
Shift and management report pack covering availability, performance and quality losses
Historian configuration and database integration for trend analysis and production benchmarking

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