We continue to be in awe of just how powerful Lobster_pro and Lobster_data truly are. We can generally process new requirements within 2 days. That wouldn’t be possible without Lobster. Our flexibility has increased exponentially but we’ve actually saved time and cut costs, too.
SALINEN AUSTRIA BELIEVES IN LOBSTER.
The Lobster_pro software was the ideal solution for addressing these pain points and was soon installed on a dedicated server, ensuring the tool only offered browser-based access for maximum flexibility and efficiency.
The electricity price monitoring system introduced at Salinen Austria is a great example of how the Lobster_pro solution can add significant value by bringing clever customer ideas to life. By creating an interface to the external energy supplier using Lobster_data (embedded) and forwarding the price information to Lobster_pro, electricity costs are mapped and analysed by visualising all relevant information. Cost fluctuations can be considered, the results exported as a presentation for sharing with teams so data can inform future decision-making. Since then this forward-thinking approach has not only cut costs, but also saved time. Lobster_pro is able to offer Salinen Austria much more than ‘just’ lower electricity bills.
- One of Europe’s leading salt companies
- HQ and production sites near Salzburg (A), eight sales offices across Europe
- Extraction of 4 M. cubic meter of salt p.a.
- Production and transformation of 1.2 M. t of salt p. a. (table salt, pharmaceutical salt and industry salt)
- Inefficiency due to many different interfaces as well as heterogeneous applications and data formats
- Legacy software allowing for very limited flexibility only
- Excessive cost due to expensive tailor-made software
- Important expenses originated by external consultancy need
- Important time burden during proyect implementation and monitoring of existing processes
- Installation of Lobster_pro on the customer’s own server with subsequent access via the browser only; individual computer installation is no longer required
- Use case ‘Monitoring of electricity tariff’:
- Setting up an interface to the external electricity supplier via Lobster_data (embedded)
- Entering information and further processing of price related data in Lobster_pro
- Visualising and analysing costs
- Agile planning of future proyect implementation and maintenance
- Consideration of price fluctuations
- Export of analysis results in presentation mode
