BHP Coal
Goonyella/Riverside
The combined operation of Goonyella - Riverside open cut mine is one of
the largest coking coal mines in the world, with an annual production
capacity of 10.5 million tonnes.
MacroView is utilised to provide information links between Maintenance, Operations, Laboratory, Metallurgy and Management, with remote support from BHP’s Mackay laboratory.
Installation Summary
- Schematics
- Trends
- Mimic Displays
- Status Displays
- Remote Access
- Reports:
- Tonnage
- Maintenance
- Shift
- CPP Log
Typical Configurations
- MacroView 5,000 I/O version on 486 PCs including Unix operating system and Presentation graphics.
- MacroView to SquareD Synet and Siemens Drivers.
- MacroView 1000 Unix Engineering Kit.
- MacroTerm MacroView graphics terminal emulation package for DOS PCs.
- DOS PCs as X-Windows terminals.
- ASCII terminals for Laboratory use.
Data Sources
- Siemens PLCs via Serial Link.
- SquareD PLCs via Synet interface.
- Fisher and Porter Micro DCI.
- Laboratory Manual Entry (dBase).
