Customer Success Story: Dynastar

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.

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.