Case Study: American Metal Processing boosts plant efficiency with Grafana Cloud

How Grafana Cloud Drives Manufacturing Plant Efficiency at American Metal Processing

American Metal Processing (AMP), a 75-year-old heat treating manufacturer, needed a better way to monitor its 24/7 plant operations and reduce unplanned downtime across a complex furnace-and-quench process. The company wanted to simplify data collection, spot patterns sooner, and keep sales, operations, quality, and finance aligned using Grafana Cloud.

Grafana Cloud helped AMP centralize sensor data from Influx and Microsoft SQL, visualize it across the plant and on mobile devices, and surface key metrics through dashboards, stat panels, time graphs, and alerts. By making issues visible in real time, Grafana enabled AMP’s small 18-person team to react quickly even after hours, detect trends earlier, and continuously improve plant efficiency with a flexible, cost-effective observability platform.

American Metal Processing

Grant Pinkos

President