Implementation and support of technological and manufacturing processes at mining and refining enterprises constitute the principal cost items. Sophisticated approach to management records in the workplace and production activity monitoring and control represents an essential aspect influencing cost effectiveness of enterprise operation. Physical time-based parameters related to manufacturing processes, raw materials, finished products and resources (productive capacity, quality parameters, expenditure, time input, etc.) are used in production records, monitoring and control instead of financial indicators.
Every individual manufacturing process or a combination of such can be described in terms of many different parameters. These parameters can assist specialists in managing different processes, analyzing their behavior and making decisions on managing technological equipment operation and processes. They can also be used in generating various reports. Efficiency and format of collecting information related to process performance has a critical impact on the quality of decisions and the result of implemented manufacturing processes, which can be achieved by using the informational production records system designed for efficient collection of manufacturing data, processing of collected data and presenting them for subsequent operational analysis and generation of specified reports.
In addition to operational personnel, the primary system users include administrative, engineering and technical personnel of the mine, which is involved in production management (chief engineer, manufacturing manager, mechanical supervisor, electrical supervisor, cost controller and engineers and technicians representing different production departments). Therefore, it is exactly the engineering, technical and managerial personnel of the enterprise that must be given the possibility to control and influence these parameters. Personnel of the enterprise needs to have a tool that provides transparent manufacturing process by obtaining true and complete information at the right time, at the right place and in the right form, and to communicate and deliver controls on a timely basis in order to achieve efficient management. This tool includes the informational systems providing collection, processing, communication, recording and display of manufacturing and technological data.
The CUSTOMER is offered the informational production management system consisting of three interrelated systems, which provide the automation of the most important manufacturing and technological process control functions: