Tamaki started by using the built-in equipment scheduling component as the foundation for this project. The automation department immediately suggested Ignition and talked to Tamaki about integrating the solution. Solution:Ĭhobani operations approached its automation department and asked for a software scheduling solution. Chobani needed a better way to visualize a schedule, update it in real time, and effectively communicate it to everyone in the plant. Managers and operators from other areas of the plant would have to walk down to the control room to see the schedule, which made communicating changes difficult. It was easy to accidentally overlook a scheduled wash that could end up delaying production - especially around shift changes when new operators would take over the schedule. This worked, but the whiteboard was messy. They must prioritize certain washes for critical lines, schedule time for wash validations, and quickly deal with changing schedules and other interruptions.īefore this project, operators were using a large whiteboard in the control room to schedule these washes. Operators in Chobani’s KDB control room are tasked with scheduling 150 possible washes on the 18 available lines of the centralized CIP system.

Chobani’s mission: bring better food to more people. By 2010, Chobani had grown from one man’s dream into America’s favorite Greek Yogurt, and a new state-of-the-art yogurt factory broke ground in Twin Falls, Idaho. In 2007, the first cup of Chobani® Greek Yogurt hit the shelf. For the next two years, Hamdi devoted himself to the craft, carefully building his team to ensure quality from the ground up. He called the company Chobani, “shepherd” in Turkish, to endow it with the hard-working and compassionate spirit of the mountain farmer.

ClientĬhobani was founded in 2005 when Hamdi Ulukaya bought an old yogurt plant in South Edmeston, New York. This project provided Chobani with an advanced real-time scheduling and event tracking system in Ignition so that Chobani could easily visualize and share information about its centralized clean-in-place (CIP) system.

Dream scheduler