ABSTRACT
Although specialized planning, monitoring and diagnosis programmes are vital tools much in use on mines today, they do not usually make up the bulk of most people’s working day. Most office work such as communication and documentation is dominated by using standard programmes.
At the authors’ institute, a number of programmes for generating data have been developed and implemented at various underground and open-cast mines. Amongst those products are routines for the design of belt-conveyors, shearers and ventilation systems.
The main focus of the paper lies with a newly developed information-system, merging data from the sources mentioned above with office- and HTML-documents. Using a single interface, the user can access any type of data via navigating through a three-dimensional presentation of the mine.
The information system presented aims at making data produced by specialized programmes accessible to non specialists, who prefer the use of standardized software.
