I Built a Python Dashboard to Monitor My Cement Plant in Real Time

From the control room to the code editor — a 40-year veteran's guide to building industrial monitoring with Python and Plotly. A Little Background I spent 40 years inside cement plant control rooms — watching gauges, listening to kilns, reading temperatures that most engineers only see on paper. When I retired, I thought I was done with data. Then I discovered Python. What started as curiosity became an obsession: could I replicate — and improve — the kind of real-time monitoring I did manually