Directions of Automation Development in Polish Mining Companies

Abstract

In recent years we can observe changes in Polish hard coal mining companies, first of all, dictated by the demand to maintain competitiveness of coal on Polish and global markets of ores. This thesis requires searching for cutting the costs on each and all levels, also by means of transformation of property and by organizational changes, in order to create effective management and activity structures and to establish technologies of exploitation which depend on geological conditions, level of productiveness, and effectiveness in using the existing infractructure of machines and equipment by measn of reducing the standstills caused by breakdowns and operational actions. In order to perform correct economical and financial analyses and make corrections of organizational and technological activities the fundamental formula of efficiency evaluation of the performed actions become the principles of economic controlling of technological processes, which refer the costs to the places in which they are generated,. These problems however are beyond the frames of this article, which concentrates on the efforts to determine the elements of automatics and construction of complete automation systems as the tools supporting the management of contemporary mining company in conditions of free market. We are at the same time aware of gradual technical changes needed in the existing plants, without imposing of additional standstills or temporary decrease of safety level.