All benefits of the ARENA Slope Management System at a glance

Plus factors for your company

- Enhanced quality of your slope
- Higher revenues due to increase of operating days
- Cost reduction due to lower consumption of water, energy and fuel, as well as to less machine time and man-hours
- Costs transparency for investment decisions
- Competitive advantage and increase of added value
- Better communication, both external (public authorities etc.) as well as internal (employees, etc.)
- Higher efficiency due to more precise information
- Operating safety and legal security due to consistent documentation
- Image improvement due to better environment protection (green marketing, etc.)
- Sustainable corporate policy due to sensible use of resources
- Consistent documentation of the infrastructure (slope, snowmaking installations , ropeways, fleet, field, etc.) and therefore the best planning basis
- Consolidated overview

Plus factors for the chief of the slope

- Early slope availability
- More operating days
- Cost transparency in case of further charging
- Keep track of the machine usage
- Improved fleet management
- Overview over the snow spreading and snow overlay in the ski-area
- Improved internal communication (snowmaking manager, driver, company management, marketing, etc.)
- Improved work- flow planning and monitoring of goal achievement
- Clear documentation about facilities (slopes, snowmaking equipment, ropeways,  fleet, property, etc.) and therefore the best planning basis
- Consolidated overview

Plus factors for the snowmaking manager

- Selective snow production
- Objective basis for taking decision instead of random guessing
- Overview over the snow spreading and snow overlay in the ski-area
- Precise weather forecast
- Evidence about the snowmaking equipment´s efficiency (areas with poor snow cover, etc.)
- Improved internal communication (snowmaking manager, driver, etc.)
- Less snow production
- Less energy consumption
- Less water consumption
- Improvement of the snowmaking strategy due to traceable documentation
- Detailed documentation of the infrastructure (slope, snowmaking equipment, ropeways, fleet, property, etc.) and therefore optimal planning basis
- Consolidated overview

Plus factors for the driver

- Snow gets spread evenly
- Clean snow (no more dirth and earth in the snow)
- Timely  identification of areas with poor snow cover
- Higher efficiency due to enhanced work-flow processes
- Improved orienteering (in case of rough weather, near dangerous areas)
- Operating safety and legal security (consistent documentation in case of accidents)
- Improved internal communication (chief of the slope, snowmaking manager, driver, etc.)
- Improvement of available information on board (paths, pipes, anchor points, ecc.)
- Sustainable snowmaking strategy due to up-dated monitoring
- Objective decisional criteria
- Enhanced quality of slopes
- Identification of snow deposits
- Punctual melting of snow deposits in spring
- Less need of snow production
- Less consumption and use of means