Prospects for the Intelligent Development of Coal Mine Industry
Shandong Xinhai Mining Technology & Equipment Inc.
Xinhai provides ore processing plant and full set equipment: Ball mill, Hydrocyclone, Flotation, Washing plant, CIP, CIL
Over the past few decades, the coal mine industry has provided lasting and powerful support for the development of society, economy, people's livelihood and technology. Entering a new era of decarbonization, the coal mine industry needs to adapt to environmental development, and actively respond to many challenges, such as energy supply & demand adjustment, industrial upgrading & transformation, climate and so on.
With the rapid development of new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, industrial internet of things, cloud computing, and intelligent equipment, a new wave of intelligent transformation brings strategic opportunities for reshaping the value chain system of coal mine industry, augmenting its transformation and innovative development.
Intelligent Transformation of Coal Mine Industry
Most countries have gradually increased their support for scientific and technological innovation in coal mine industry, and actively promoted the deep integration of modern information technology and coal mine industry. Intelligence is becoming a recognized future development trend in coal mine industry, which will surely bring about unprecedented revolutionary. According to relevant research by McKinsey, the full release of intelligent potential of coal enterprises can increase profits by 7%-12%, and increase return on investment by 2%-3%.
Combining intelligence and “digital and intelligent” practices of leading coal companies at home and abroad, it is believed that the intelligence of coal mine industry refers to the construction of an industrial ecosystem with smart mines as its core, applying digital technology empowerment in all links of coal industry chains (including mining, transportation, ventilation, procurement, sales, safety assurance, operation management, etc.) to make breakthroughs in coal mine industry.
As the core, smart mines will rely on technologies such as intelligent mining equipment, efficient data transmission (such as underground 5G technology), high-level analysis of big data (such as neural networks, artificial intelligence algorithms), to finally achieve safe, efficient, environment protection.
Challenges and Success Factors of Intelligent Transformation for Coal Mine Industry
However, to build a truly intelligent coal mine, many challenges need to be overcome. Among the coal mining companies that have embarked on digital pilots or transformation, only a few have planned a clear digital strategy. At the same time, a digital transformation survey of 800 companies around the world shows that only 30% of companies have fully promoted intelligence within their organizations. How to reasonably plan the transformation path and enter the promotion stage is the challenge that every coal enterprise faces.
In order to achieve a comprehensive and sustainable intelligent transformation, coal enterprises need to cooperate with each other in the transformation of business, technology and organization parts.
Benefit-oriented Business Transformation
Enterprises should avoid projects that are easy to use but have no benefits. First, they should systematically scan and evaluate the opportunities for intelligentization of each business unit, analyze and decide which intelligent improvement plan to adopt from the perspective of financial returns. Finally, they need to consider the input-output ratio as a whole, prioritizing the most cost-effective smart initiatives.
Practicality-aimed Technology Transformation
As an IT system supported by intelligent technology, a data and IT architecture with basic functions should be established first, and redundancy and interfaces should be reserved for future expansion. For practical purposes, launching a use case can quickly create value.
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Talents-centered Organization Transformation
There are two types of talents that can only be cultivated by coal mine enterprise itself: the members of intelligent transformation team and the "translators" who are responsible for "translating" the work content.
Members of the intelligent transformation team need to have a clear understanding of company's business, management system, and continuous improvement goals. "Translators" not only need to have a deep understanding of production technology, processes and other technical aspects, but also have rich experience and guidance ability in lean operations. They need to "translate" all aspects of work in various business modules of the enterprise to data scientists and program developers, and ensure that the other party fully understands the details.
Conclusion
For coal mine industry, intelligent transformation is a large-scale change that subverts existing working methods and operating concepts. In the initial stage of intelligent transformation, the costs invested and the benefits obtained by different departments may be unbalanced, which further reflects the importance of promoting the overall long-term and orderly implementation of strategies.
At the same time, it is also needed to consciously build digital model pilots, so that everyone in this field can see the benefits brought about by intelligence and truly feel the value of coal mine industry intelligent transformation.
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