Management information system

European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media Directorate-General For Energy

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Industrial research and development
Coal - hydrocarbons

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA-DI
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Commission of the European Communities
technical coal research
Management information system 5
Commission of the European Communities
technical coal research
Management information system
Headquarters Technical Department
British Coal Corporation
Ashley Road, Stanhope Bretby
Burton on Trent, Staffs. DE 15 OQD
United Kingdom
Contract 7220-AF/813
April 1983 - March 1988
Final report
Research work carried out with financial aid from the European Coal and Steel Community
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NX. EUR 13357 1991 EN Published by the
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Directorate-General
Telecommunications, Information Industries and Innovation
L-2920 Luxembourg
LEGAL NOTICE
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This document has been reproduced from the best original available
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1991
ISBN 92-826-2683-0 Catalogue number: CD-NA-13357-EN-C
© ECSC-EEC-EAEC, Brussels • Luxembourg, 1991
- ' Printed in Belgium SYNOPSIS
This contract was for the development of a new range of colliery information
computer systems (CIS).
The first application of these systems was to monitoring production and delays
from longwall faces. A trial installation was implemented at Shirebrook
Colliery and this proved so successful that British Coal are now installing
many similar systems. The key features of the production monitoring
application are that delays are automatically detected in real time and the
operator is prompted for the root cause of the delay. This is done through a
linked series of questions and answers from a linked set of possible delay
causes. Ad hoc and regular reports are produced giving local colliery
management visibility of coal face performance, thus enabling informed
decisions and corrective action to be taken.
Following the successful application to production monitoring, the system was
extended to heading/drivages, coal clearance/conveyors, mine air environment
and fixed plant. Those applications were operational during the contract but
have since been extended. CONTENTS
Page
SYNOPSIS 1
1. INTRODUCTION
2. BRIEF CONTRACT HISTORY 3
2.1 First Year (1983)
2.2 Second Year (1984) 6
2.3 Third Year (1985) 7
2.4 Fourth Year (1986) 8
2.5 Fifth Year (1987/1988) 11
3. CIS TECHNOLOGY2
3.1 Introduction
3.2 File Systems/Query Languages3
3.3 Middleware6
3.4 Personal Computers7
3.5 Graphics 18
3.6 Networking9
3.6.1 Local Area Networks .
3.6.2 Wide Areas
3.7 Programming Languages etc 20
3.8 Hardware 22
4. APPLICATIONS OF CIS3
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Production Monitoring4
4.2.1n
4.2.2 History of Computer-based Information Systems
at Shirebrook Colliery 26
4.2.3 System Requirements8
4.2.4m Design9
4.2.4.1m Software 30 2 System Hardware1
4.2.5 Data Collection2
- V 4.2.5.1 Face Delays 32
4.2.6 Data Storage 38
4.2.7 Information Presentation 40
4.2.8 System Use 40
4.2.9 Benefits and Potential Benefits o f I nformation
Systems 42
4.2.10 Future Extensions of the System 45 1 Conclusions 46
Heading Monitoring 4.3 47
4.3.1 Introduction 47
4.3.2 Prototype Development 47
4.3.2.1 Automatic Monitoring 48 2 Reporting 48
4.3.2.3 Graphics 49
4.3.3 Future Development 50
4.4 Coal Clearance 50
4.5 General Purpose Monitoring 51
5. DEVELOPMENT AND COLLIERY TRIALS 53
6. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PLANS 55
APPENDICES 57
1. REPORT ON THE POSSIBLE USE OF DATABASE AT THE NATIONAL COAL
BOARD 59
2. EVALUATION OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CDBMSs) AT THE
NATIONAL COAL BOARD 81
-VAX PRODUCTION MONITORING USER GUIDE 3. CIS- 149
4. CIS--VAXNG OPERATOR GUIDE 177
5. COLLIERY INFORMATION SYSTEM
SYSTEM MANAGER'S HANDBOOK 209
FIGURES 335
1. SOFTWARE STRUCTURE7
2. HARDWARE LAYOUT8
3. DELAY TREE STRUCTURE
4. MANAGEMENT TEAM STRUCTURE 340
5. SHIFT REPORT1
6. WEEKLYT2
7. DAILY OUTPUT AND BELT REPORT3
8. S157s FACE PERFORMANCE GRAPHS, MARCH - JULY 1987 344
9. S16s FACE POSITION IN THE NATIONAL TOP TEN FACES,
MARCH 1986 - FEBRUARY 19875
VI 10. HEADING MONITORING MIMIC 346
11. BAR CHART OF HEADING ADVANCE7
12. BART OFG DELAYS8
13.R CHART OF MACHINE ADVANCE9
14. HEADING SHIFT REPORT 350
15.G DAILYT1
16a.G WEEKLY REPORT2
16b. HEADINGYT3
17. GATE BELT DELAY ANALYSIS4
18. DELAY DURATION REPORT5
19. CONVEYOR LOG6
20. SUMMARY REPORT7
21. STATUST8
22. GPMC MENU 359'
23.C PARAMETER SELECTION 360
24. GPMC GRAPH1
VII