PRACTICE A. Kotlyarskiy. Digitalization as a strategic

DIGITALIZATION AS A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF MINING ENTERPRISES

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MINING ENTERPRISES ARE AMONG THE MOST COMPLEX IN TERMS OF MANAGEMENT. RISKS ARE CAUSED BY MANY DIFFICULT TO PREDICT PARAMETERS THAT AFFECT THE SAFETY OF MINING OPERATIONS, AS WELL AS THE INTENSIVE DYNAMICS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF POSSIBLE EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.

Alexander Kotlyarskiy, General Director of PROMTECH LLC Doctor of Technical Sciences

The complexity of management, first of all, lies in the stochastic nature of business processes inherent in the extraction of minerals, which complicates the use of predictive management methods. The latter raises the problem of making informed management decisions, as well as monitoring the implementation of management decisions at each level of enterprise management.

A possible solution to this problem is the widespread use of digital technology, which allows the enterprise to be provided with a comprehensive automation system, enabling managers to manage the mine as a single organism.

The principle of "Integrated Automation" is inextricably linked with the trend of "Digitalization of production" and is designed to provide the company with competitive advantages, providing flexibility, controllability and transparency of production. Integrated automation is a set of ideas about the enterprise’s business processes as a single whole, which allows using the synergy of hardware and human resources to solve the problem of increasing production efficiency.

PROMTECH LLC has more than 25 years of experience in implementing automation systems. Aggregation of the intellectual potential of our employees and our own production lines, which allow us to produce reliable and unique automation equipment in terms of their characteristics, allowed our company to

offer mining companies one of the most advanced integrated automation systems in Russia. All the existing business processes of the enterprise are involved in a single system, which allows us to solve the problem of ensuring the “observability” of production.

The basis of the system is the Dispatch complex, which makes it possible to monitor all technological processes in real time, timely responding to a rapidly changing production picture.

Unique software allows you to generate a large number of reporting forms for

various parameters of the process, which contributes to a significant increase in the efficiency of the enterprise.

The system has a single server complex that provides computing power for all existing and future systems. The centralization of computing power made it possible to create a scalable solution with unique performance and reliability features, and the use of virtualization methods provides flexibility in the distribution of hardware resources.

The developed data transmission backbone network, both in the under

ground part of the mine and on its surface, which ensures guaranteed data transmission at speeds up to 10 Gb/s, using hardware and software backup solutions, allows you to connect any future automation system to the system.

The solutions implemented by PROMTECH LLC allow you to get a powerful analytical system for analyzing the technological process, providing management personnel with the ability to instantly evaluate production stability.