SIMINECIS CONT    End-to-end electrical engineering and technological solutions for continuous mining

SIMINECIS CONT combines our solutions for the individual process steps in continuous opencast mining into a overall system offering maximum availability. Our recipe for success is to bring together leading electrotechnical products with process technology expertise linked via perfectly matched interfaces, thereby providing the basis for excavating more material with less wear and tear on machinery and thus optimizing operating costs.

Completely Integrated Solutions for Continous Mining The challenge When every single excavator is extracting 240,000 cubic meters and more each day, it’s easy to gauge the consequences of a system failure, especially as the conveyor belt would then be running with no load as well. Maximum availability is an absolute must in continuous opencast mining, and the key to achieving this is to operate bucket chain and bucket wheel excavators without overstretching their capability. In such a tough environment with such enormously dimensioned systems, it must be possible to adjust the technology precisely to the geological conditions.

Our solution

SIMINECIS CONT integrates our electrical engineering and technological solutions for all process steps in continuous mining. These include our power supply, automation and drive systems for bucket chain and bucket wheel excavators, merged together in the SIMINECIS EXC solution. Thanks to technically refined control systems, the machine parameters are adjusted exactly to the geological conditions. Particularly with bucket wheel excavators, our gearless drives save power and drastically cut operating and maintenance costs. SIMINECIS CON guarantees safe and economical operation and optimized output with variable speed drives for conveyors used in opencast mining systems. The crucial factor for the overall picture is not only the quality of the individual solutions but also the way they are linked into one smooth process chain, and this is where the SIMINECIS CC control center solution sets the standard. And by integrating diagnostic tools in the systems, we ensure efficient maintenance and reduced life cycle costs throughout the entire process. All in all, this makes SIMINECIS CONT the high-performance solution for continuous mining.

Good reasons for SIMINECIS CONT

Better overall performance through the system-specific combination of leading solutions for bucket chain and bucket wheel excavators and conveyor belts

Efficient use of electric power thanks to transport processes optimized for maximum output in interoperation with variable speed belt drive systems

Matched interfaces and integrated service tools provide support for system operators and reduce maintenance costs

Our MES solutions ensure coal quality parameters are met for specific boiler types

Why Completely Integrated Solutions from Siemens deliver more:

SIMINECIS CONT is a total solution that integrates the horizontal, vertical and time dimension of continuous opencast mining systems, thereby addressing all three key factors in system performance simultaneously: Horizontally, the solution aims to improve the entire value added process through the combination of proven power supply, drive and automation systems with technology-specific solutions. Examples range from automation on the basis of the global standard SIMATIC S7 to technological controls systems that allow conveyors to be operated at variable speed. Vertically, system-specific IT solutions allow direct intervention in the process, and processing of all relevant information for decision making at all corporate levels. This includes, for example, our MES solutions to ensure that coal quality parameters are met according to the specific boiler type. In the time dimension, SIMINECIS CONT creates sustained competitiveness through a service aimed not only at optimizing components but also at achieving a real improvement in processes. The interface-optimized configuration and provision for a harmonious process of further technical development ensure maximum protection of your investment and a substantial reduction in life cycle costs.