Increasing Safety and
Reducing health and Environmental Concerns
Mining is often
characterized by harsh surroundings, difficult operating
conditions and by an increasingly challenging requirement to
protect the local environment in which the mine
operates. Such harsh operating conditions place maximum
attention on the requirement for safety and health
issues along with the continuous monitoring of
environmental issues.
Just about all
of the underground and above ground operations of a mine
are controlled by a vast array of PLC and SCADA systems
and even some DCS systems. This holds true for the mine
winder which takes personnel to and from the depths of
an underground mine to the hugely expensive scrapers and
excavators for above ground mines. Such harsh
environments often call for regular changes to be made
to both PLC and SCADA software to take into account the
changing production issues. To maintain a high standard
of safety, a world class software change management
system is almost a prerequisite for such an
infrastructure.
MDT AutoSave is
part of the change management infrastructure that
ensures proper rollback/recovery data exists. It track
changes in PLCs, human-machine interface systems and
workstations to provide a proper audit trail and
notification of changes. This can be invaluable in
understanding what changes were made, why, and by whom.
"Mozal
chose MDT Software's AutoSave because it met operational
requirements and supported a wide variety of PLCs, HMIs,
robots and drive systems. More importantly, MDT are
specialists in change management and understand our
urgent needs at the plant floor level."
- Mozambique Aluminium (Mozal)
MDT serves the
mining market through our distribution and integration network.
