Fully Mechanized Mining Monitoring Automation Platform

Product Overview

The fully mechanized mining automation monitoring platform is a core component of the intelligent working face and serves as the brain controlling the working face equipment. It integrates and communicates with various subsystems to achieve data acquisition and intelligent linkage control of the shearer, inertial navigation, supports, three machines, belt conveyor, emulsion pump station, spray pump station, automatic tensioning, video system, environmental monitoring, personnel positioning, etc., including video linkage, automatic fluid supply, transportation linkage, automatic follow-up, gas-coal quantity linkage, collision warning, and more. The platform works with the process management system to implement automated processes for medium-thick coal seam, thin coal seam, top coal caving, and filling coal seam working faces, including middle entry cutting, end entry cutting, and automatic straightening. It is the core acquisition and control center of the intelligent working face.

This platform is a system platform independently developed by Xiangming Intelligent Control. As of October 2022, it has been deployed and put into operation at nearly one hundred working faces across major coal mines.

Product Features

• Complete range of accessible subsystems, basically covering all connectable equipment at the working face, with a configurable approach to configure accessible equipment and subsystems according to customer requirements.

• Mature coal mining processes. The automatic follow-up system is routinely used at various working faces, including middle entry cutting process and end entry cutting process. Parameters can be set at the working face according to actual needs.

• High degree of intelligence. The platform includes anti-collision warning, transportation linkage/coordinated stop, gas linkage, coal quantity linkage, video linkage, automatic follow-up, straightening, automatic fluid supply, mine pressure analysis, fault analysis, head and tail audible and visual warning, etc.

• Stable and reliable operation: one-time deployment and commissioning, with continuous stable use across multiple working faces.

Data Monitoring

• Establishes communication with each device or acquisition module and displays the online status of each device and monitoring module.

• Displays monitoring screens, data information, and dynamic effects of working face equipment. The monitoring interface can be optimized and adjusted according to user needs and habits, with some necessary data displayed in the form of charts and topology diagrams;

• Communication interface protocols, data addresses, calculation formulas, etc. are all configurable, including OPC, MODBUS, UDP, API, socket, etc.;

• Cumulatively records important fully mechanized mining data, such as advance amount, coal cutting cycles, drum height, etc.;

Data Analysis

• Based on historical data changes, analyzes important data such as automatic oil pressure, column pressure loss, support stroke faults, mining pressure cycles, equipment overtemperature, equipment overcurrent, current overload, etc.

• Analyzes the operational stability of each subsystem and promptly notifies manufacturers to maintain or replace sensor equipment.

• Analyzes and summarizes system operation records, calculates output and power consumption, and analyzes equipment fault cycles, cumulative safe operation duration, etc.

Automation Control

• Equipped with one-key start/stop function and semi-automatic interlock start/stop function.

• Equipped with audible and visual warning.

• Equipped with gas linkage, coal quantity linkage, and other control functions.

• Equipped with automatic follow-up configuration function.

• Equipped with automatic straightening function, full-cut automatic judgment function, etc.

• Equipped with video automatic switching and rotating follow-up function.