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MineSuite Sales (June 2006)

Broadmeadow Mine, BMA’s new punch longwall underground operation north of Moranbah in Queensland, has purchased the MineSuite system for production tracking and delay monitoring. Broadmeadow will have the capacity to produce more than 3 million tonnes of high quality coking coal a year. MineSuite will be used to analyse and monitor equipment and production, through the use of its console screen and reporting modules.

MineSuite Version 6 Hardware Released pdf 200kb (March 2005)

MineSuite Sales (June 2004)

Anglovaal Mining (Avmin) will implement MineSuite for production performance and fleet management in the new Nchwaning #3 underground manganese mine, part of the Assmang operation in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The MineSuite system will provide management personnel across all disciplines with in-time and end-of-period access to accurate operational KPIs.

BHPBilliton Illawarra has installed MineSuite for mine production and down-time reporting at the new Dendrobium mine in New South Wales. Once production starts in early 2005, Dendrobium will supply premium coking coal for steel mills. MineSuite is being standardised across BHPBilliton underground coal operations.

CSR will implement MineSuite hardware and software for two separate ‘Railsafe’ systems in the Burdekin and Herbert regions of northern Queensland. The system will be used for traffic control and dispatch, and collision avoidance on locomotives and harvesters. CSR produces around 2 million tonnes of raw sugar, nearly 40% of Australia’s total, from its seven mills.

MineSuite Upgrade (March 2004)

Anglo Coal Australia has contracted Maptek to expand the Fleet Management System at Capcoal Open Cut to include dragline and preparation plant dozers, graders, water carts and newly purchased haul trucks. As part of the expansion, all existing hardware will be upgraded from version 5 Remote Processing Units (commissioned in 1999) to the latest version 6 hardware.

The project includes development of a MineSuite scheduling module to facilitate daily rostering of employees. Capcoal Group Operations currently uses MineSuite for the following applications:

Central and Southern Colliery UG Mines
Coal Handling Preparation Plant (CHPP)
Shipping System
Open Cut Fleet Management
Production Monitoring
Real-time Fuel System

MineSuite v450 has moved to a new Java 1.4 runtime environment. This has improved performance and increased stability, and now supports additional features such as XML processing and drag-drop functionality.

Major changes in v450 can be seen in the new Shift Editor. The new Manual Data Entry (MDE) interface has improved navigation and dialogue box structure and simplified entry panels to increase efficiency when inputting data.

Reporting enhancements in v450 include improved html, image and csv export, new runtime options (single shift/process, recall last date range selection) and new x-axis options. Dataset functionality has also been optimised, including features to allow greater control over data output.

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