OREANDA-NEWS. May 14, 2014. When the operator pressed the start button, the roar of the machines slowly starting 30 meters away from the working face broke the silence of the deep stratum.

The shearer was moving step by step in distance, freely cutting coal, pushing the slide, and shifting the slide. On the transmission belts, coal flow towards the ground. This is the scene of Saitai coal mine’s intelligent mechanized mining team remotely controlling automatic mining machine in the thin coal seam working face in Datong Coal Mine Group.

For the safe and efficient exploitation of the thin coal seam resources, Sitai coalmine makes extensively researches, and undertakes scientific proofs, on the basis of analyzing the status of thin seam mining, actively introduce a set of comprehensive integrated equipment consisted of thin seam mining hydraulic support, shearer, and scraper conveyor.

Using the computer intelligent control and information sensing technology, it achieves the effect of coal-cutting memory, video remote controlling, and remote support controlling to realize the fewer people or no man stay in the working face, which effectively reduces the labor intensity, improves the production efficiency and safe factor. The whole process reflects that the technicians make good use of thin seam by using the modern intelligent technology to achieve a brilliant fine mining of coal resources.