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East Mining Company and Zyfra presented a digitalization project at Solntsevsky coal strip mine
The East Mining Company ( EMCO ),
one of major Russian exporters of brown coal , in cooperation with Zyfra , Finnish-Russian industrial digitalization leader , held a webinar on digitalization in the coal mining industry . The event addressed the current trends in the development of digital technologies in the coal industry , as well as the data culture , i . e . introduction of the data-based corporate culture .
The key point of the webinar was the presentation of the project to implement and customize the Zyfra OpenMine Fleet Management System ( FMS ) at the Solntsevsky coal strip mine in Sakhalin , the largest island of the Russia , situated in the North Pacific Ocean . The East Mining Company was represented by Stanislav Ploshchenko , Deputy CEO for Business Efficiency , Ruslan Karimov Deputy CEO for IT and Digital Transformation , and Evgeny Grabar , Project Manager for ERP System Implementation .
The EMCO specialists presented the first results of the Zyfra Open Mine FMS customization for the needs of the Solntsevsky coal strip mine . The system was put into commercial operation at the mine in December 2019 . Almost 9 months of work resulted in a one-time increase of dump truck load by 10 %. With the installation of on-board sensors , it is now possible to control violations of the security zones . Introduction of a modern fast fuelling system for mining haulage equipment helped to reduce fuelling time per unit by 2.5 times and increase the equipment performance .
“ The main challenges we faced in implementing the system were the size of the company and a large fleet of equipment with almost 150 units inside the mine and about 120 units outside used to deliver the coal from the strip mine to the company ’ s port facilities of Shakhtersk . So far , all operation modes and procedures have been recorded and most of them are already automated . The next step will be to commission the latest version of the system , which will help to minimize the equipment downtime inside the open-pit and eliminate the lost time of backshovels . We also plan to introduce process KPIs for the dispatchers and operators of the equipment ,” commented Stanislav Ploshchenko , EMCO ’ s Deputy CEO for Business Efficiency .
“ Efficient operation of modern coal mining companies is impossible without a well-developed transport complex . For this reason , considerable attention is paid to improving equipment productivity , ensuring savings in all types of material resources , optimising vehicle loads and streamlining the coal grades . These challenges cannot be solved without using modern digital technologies ,” noted Pavel Rastopshin , Managing Director at Zyfra .
About East Mining Company East Mining Company is the major producer of thermal coal in Sakhalin region , Russia . The company is a among major Russian exporters of brown coal to the countries of Asia-Pacific region .
EMCO controls the full cycle from the extraction to the shipment of the products . The Sakhalin coal reserves have more than 300 million tons , and a prospected reserve in Magadan region of more than 100 million tons .
About Zyfra Zyfra Mining ( formerly – VIST ), a mining division of Zyfra Group , Finnish-Russian industrial digitalization leader , has been successful in the mining industry for 30 + years with 80 + mines using the company ’ s products . The main solutions developed by Zyfra Mining include mine fleet management system , which collects and manages real-time information from mining equipment , autonomous mining dump trucks and drill rigs .
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