Case Study: Dakota Gasification Company achieves 30% productivity increase without additional staffing with LabVantage Solutions

Dakota Gasification Company - Customer Case Study

Dakota Gasification Company, a large synfuels plant with a 33-person laboratory, needed a reasonably priced LIMS that could deliver data to customers 24/7 and meet strict requirements for ease of use, configuration and maintenance. The lab required automatic logging of ~150 daily samples, a flexible scheduler (different parameter lists by time/day), instrument data import and limit-checking to hold out-of-spec results. They selected LabVantage Solutions’ LABVANTAGE LIMS to meet these needs.

LabVantage Solutions implemented and customized LABVANTAGE—building the sample scheduler, custom actions for trend checking, approval/release and instrument import, plus archive tables and a data-deletion action—then trained staff quickly. The system now imports 90% of results, increased laboratory productivity by 30% (handling a one-third workload increase without additional staff or overtime), improved system dependability and enabled integration with other process systems for real-time decision-making.

Dakota Gasification Company