Siemens provides digital solution to Chinese mining group

Falling commodity prices and increasing trade tariffs, alternative energy sources, rising safety and security risks: the global coal mining industry faces major challenges while needing to meet mounting stakeholder expectations. To stay competitive, companies need to become more innovative: digitisation plays a crucial role by offering new ways to maximise productivity.

For this purpose, YanZhou Coal Mine Co. Ltd. is establishing a cloud concept for mine hoist. The project is set to begin in 2019, initially drawing data from four mine hoist systems at the customer?s DongTan Coal Mine, located in the central eastern portion of YanZhou coalfield. To benefit from enterprise-wide insights, YanZhou Coal Mine Co. Ltd. intends later to extend the concept to cover up to 20 mine hoists located hundreds of miles apart from each other at this and its other five coal mines.

For 24/7 transparency, the cloud platform can be accessed by users on local PCs in the enterprise network, or using remote PC or smart phone/tablets via the Internet. This enables engineers and managers to monitor machine status, trace fault by historical trend, while managing service routines and the knowledge library ? any time, any where.

YanZhou Coal Mine Co is headquartered in Zoucheng, Jining, Shandong in eastern mainland China. The company is principally engaged in underground coal mining, preparation and processing, sales, and railway transportation of coal.