TAIYUAN: An intelligent mining innovation lab was established in north China’s coal-rich Shanxi Province on Tuesday to facilitate the digital transformation of the country’s coal industry.
The lab in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, was jointly built by the Shanxi provincial government, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and two local enterprises.
The lab is intended to help coal mines reduce numbers of staff in high-risk positions, increase efficiency, and improve safety by exploring new uses for ICTs (information and communications technologies) including wireless industrial control networks, industrial optical ring networks, and cloud computing.
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei hopes to combine ICT with coal mining technologies to support the digital and intelligent transformation in the coal industry, realize a production model that features “fewer workers, greater safety, and higher efficiency,” and enable coal mine workers to “wear suits and ties” at work. – Agencies
