I mounted mine to a large piece of MDF that was painted and mounted on the wall, to the right of the kettles to keep it out of the way. I didn't want it anywhere in front of kettles or where water could get on it. While the panel's water resistant, I wanted it out of the way. My brewing process doesn't have me changing setting or pressing buttons often. I do glance at it quite often so I wanted it at standard operator height (nose level) so that I could see it from anywhere in the room and even outside the room through the brewery windows.
Panel wall mounted:
The control panel is quite heavy (~36 lbs). The wall behind the tile is standard wall studs made out of wood so I used 4" lag bolts through the tile/drywall to fasten the MDF panel directly to the studs for proper support.
The countrol panel enclusure I used came with four mounting brackets. The space between the mounting brackets did not align with the standard wall stud spacing in my brewery so I used a 24x28x3/4" back plate made out of MDF.
I stained the back plate to match the brew stand and then attached to a wall stud in 3 locations using 4x3/8" lag bolts and washers. Prior to permanently attaching the back plate to the wall, I drilled 4 holes and countersunk from the back for the 4 mounting bracket bolts. The control panel was then mounted to the back plate using the included mounting brackets. The bolts come through the back plate from the back such that the nuts are attached from the outside. This allows me to remove the control panel without having to remove the back plate (if required - has never happened).
1/2" to 3/4" pipe straps were used for cable management. The straps were only attached on one side to make it possible to remove the cables if required:
More details on this wall mounting in my build instructions
here.
I've since then moved the brewery to a new room, but the general layout of the kettles/table/panel is identical. I simply repainted the MDF board black to match the tiled wall better:
The panel's visible from outside the brewery:
Good luck!
Kal