Case Study: Plantd unifies factory telemetry and cuts downtime with Sift

Plantd ramps 10 million panels with Sift

Plantd, a company creating carbon-negative building panels from fast-growing grasses, faced a significant challenge in monitoring its unique, first-of-its-kind manufacturing equipment. With no existing playbook for their machine, they struggled to correlate time-series telemetry with individual panel quality using manual spreadsheets and custom scripts, creating a major bottleneck. To overcome this, they implemented the Sift observability platform.

By using Sift, Plantd created a unified source of truth for all machine telemetry, operator annotations, and panel-level results. The platform provided automated data review with rules and run-to-run comparisons, allowing engineers to catch anomalies and prevent downtime. This solution enabled Plantd to ramp up production successfully in 2026, moving from a period of troubleshooting to reliable manufacturing. Sift now serves as the telemetry backbone for their entire operation.

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