F3 Engineering is an aerospace and defense firm founded on the process discipline expected by its existing customers. F3 provides a spectrum of product offerings, ranging from nuclear-powered submarine components to communication equipment and overhaul maintenance rigging. F3 customers and end users depend on F3 for their safety, reliability, and security.

F3 Engineering needed real-time visualization, analytics, and reporting to monitor operations in their battery recycling plant. Since the costly legacy data historian they used at the time didn’t offer any real-time capabilities, they decided to modernize their technology. They selected purpose-built time series database InfluxDB as their real-time data solution for tracking, monitoring, and reporting on plant conditions. After modernizing with InfluxDB, F3 Engineering had the cloud-native data system their battery plant needed. F3 Engineering created a comprehensive data logging and performance monitoring system using InfluxDB. They added Grafana for data visualizations and automatic reporting to surface insights from their metrics collection.

InfluxDB’s real-time metrics, scalability, and flexibility significantly improved F3 Engineering’s operations and provided extensive visibility into their business. Significant cost savings from the new data collection engine allowed for more data capture, providing deeper insights. Moving data storage from on-prem to cloud storage increased data reliability. Finally, seamlessly integrating InfluxDB with popular tools such as Node-RED and Grafana made data manipulation and visualization straightforward and efficient.