Case Study: Varland Plating improves industrial IoT monitoring with Grafana

Get better insights from industrial IoT data with Grafana

Varland Plating, a Cincinnati-based industrial electroplating shop, needed better visibility into critical process data such as temperature, pH, and electrical current to support fast, high-quality turnaround times. Their legacy Opto22 setup offered only limited data visualization, making it difficult to turn operational data into actionable business insights. Grafana was chosen as the primary visualization platform for their industrial IoT monitoring needs.

Varland Plating implemented a Telegraf-InfluxDB-Grafana (TIG) stack, with Grafana used to build flexible dashboards and visualizations including histograms, tables, state timelines, and color-coded line graphs. Grafana made it easier to automate monitoring, analyze larger data ranges, and support multiple remote users, with the team reporting they could get up and running in about 10 minutes and see value within an hour. Grafana helped Varland Plating improve operations and decision-making without straining their budget.

Varland Plating

Toby Varland

Vice President of Technology