Greenfield Yoghurt Plant
Scope & approach
Chobani needed a controls partner to help establish its Australian manufacturing operation with new production lines and site infrastructure, and the relationship has had to keep adding and optimising lines without disturbing production already running on site. Metromotion Controls supported the initial setup and has continued to add, optimise and support production lines over the years, bringing process, packaging and site services onto common control and data interfaces so each addition extends one operating environment rather than a separate island. The scope spans plant services including boilers, refrigeration, trade waste, power monitoring and water usage monitoring, plus OEE, site data analytics and contextualised production data from lab equipment and other external sources.
What was delivered
- Plant-wide automation and electrical delivery stayed under one engineering partner from startup through long-term support.
- Process, packaging and site services were integrated into one operating environment with consistent control and data interfaces across the plant.
- OEE and production analytics supported continuous improvement work across yield, throughput, CIP duration and scheduling.
- The delivery model remained aligned to Chobani's global automation standards beyond go-live.
Scope items
- Site power upgrade, including new mains design and procurement
- Building services and process power distribution
- Factory-wide automation integration across process, packaging and site services
- OEE and data analytics for continuous improvement efforts covering yield increase, production throughput, CIP time reduction and scheduling
- Commissioning plus ongoing remote and on-site support
“A one-in-a-million partnership we have not seen anywhere else in the world.”
Services and sectors behind this work
Food and beverage automation Australia
Automation, traceability, CIP, SCADA and production data for Australian food and beverage plants.
Dairy automation Australia
Controls for dairy processing, milk receival, pasteurisation, CIP and production reporting.
PLC, SCADA and HMI programming
PLC logic, SCADA architecture, HMI standards, alarming and historian integration for manufacturing sites.
Control panel engineering
Electrical design, control cabinet upgrades and panel-build support for industrial projects.
Industrial data, IIoT and analytics
OEE, downtime, historian and production reporting systems built from reliable plant signals.
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