Customer Success Story: Dynastar
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- France
Product
- ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite
- AlarmWorX64™
- WebHMI™
- BridgeWorX™
- ReportWorX™
Tech Stack
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server
- Excel
- OPC
- BACnet protocols
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Energy Saving
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Manufacturing System Automation
- Energy Management System
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Since 1963, Dynastar, a division of the Rossignol Group located in Sallanches, France, has designed, manufactured and distributed a wide range of skis and skiing equipment for competition and the general public. Dynastar’s birthplace, Mont-Blanc, provides an incredible laboratory to develop and test tomorrow’s most technically innovative products. Chamonix is Dynastar’s base camp, and its inspiration. To drive its success, Dynastar works in consultation with athletes, using their valuable feedback to develop new equipment. At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, the brand had the highest number of winners, reaching a total tally of three gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Fifty-one years after its creation, Dynastar is one of the world leaders in the ski industry and the brand ranks among the most successful medal winners in history.
The Challenge
Dynastar aimed to update the automation capabilities of its Sallanches location, a 28,000 square-meter facility producing over 300,000 skis per year. Its objectives for this project was to reduce energy consumption related to its manufacturing process, as well as implement a global visualization interface. The company wanted a system that could rationalize the use of production equipment as well as provide warnings of hardware failure. At the time, the company was running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with multiple Web clients, as well as SQL Server, in addition to Excel, for its database needs. Its existing manufacturing system was comprised of TREND and Honeywell devices, in addition to hundreds of other tags, all of which required an easily integrated automation solution. The French ski manufacturer required a supervisory product that could allow product managers to set, view and make use of real-time availability requirements of workshops and equipment.
The Solution
Dynastar, in coordination with their systems consultant, LANSARD of Pringy, France, selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite, including AlarmWorX64™ enterprise-wide alarm management system and WebHMI™ Web-based, real-time automation component. They also included ICONICS’ BridgeWorX™ real-time workflow for data bridging and ReportWorX™ real-time reporting/charting/analytics tool. Once Dynastar and LANSARD installed ICONICS GENESIS64, along with several other ICONICS software components, the system provided remote access to LANSARD for monitoring and maintenance of Dynastar’s Sallanches facilities. ICONICS software is able to handle Dynastar’s large amounts of data (generated from occupation workshops, manufacturing and other sources) and establish an energy consumption profile based on those parameters. The ICONICS solution allows for the connection to, and communication with, multiple different devices over Ethernet via standard OPC and BACnet protocols.
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