Agenda Day Two
CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Tuesday 25th October 2011
8:00 Longwall Big Breakfast: It's back again and bigger than ever!
Meet in the exhibition area for the Big BBQ Breakfast
9:00 Opening remarks from the morning Chair
Brian Nicholls, Managing Director, Brian Nicholls Mining
9:10 Can we compete? Australian Coal in the Global Scene
Peter Lynch, Executive Chairman, Cokal Limited
9:40 CASE STUDY: Growth of Nucoal and continued development of the Doyles Creek Mining Project
Glen Lewis, Managing Director, NuCoal Resources NL
10:10 CASE STUDY: Water management regulations - New polices for NSW
Fergus Hancock, Senior Assessment Officer, and
Frances Guest, Senior Policy Officer, Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services
10:40 Introduction to Longwall Top Coal Caving Mining Technology
Qiuwei Liu, Project Manager, CME
11:00 Morning tea break
11:40 Future Longwall - Cutting Coal with Full Automation?
Allison Golsby, Chief Executive Officer, ConsultMine
12:20 CASE STUDY: Rockwell Automation Australia
Production and Downtime Reporting for Longwall Operations - the spreadsheet is not evil
Geoffrey Irvine, Industry Solutions Manager, South Pacific, Rockwell Automation
12:40 CASE STUDY: Communication upgrades @ Integra Mine, Hunter Valley
Michael McKeogh, Director, Fibre Optics Design and Construct Pty Ltd
Ian Bailey, Longwall Electrical Engineer, Integra Mine, Vale Australia
1:00 CASE STUDY: Safe Connection of VAM Abatement Technology to Underground Coal Mines and the Roadmap ahead for the continued development of this technology for the Coal Industry
Rodney Peet, Business Manager, Corky's
1:20 Lunch
TECHNOLOGY FLYTHROUGH PRESENTATIONS
Equipment suppliers share their latest and greatest
2:30 JOY: High productivity low seam Longwalls
2:40 Caterpillar Global Mining: Automated plow faces
2:50 Nepean Longwall: Tele-remote Longwall operation
3:00 SANDVIK: Automation on development machines
3:10 Extended Technology Discussion
Q&A
3:30 Closing remarks from the Chair
Close of conference
Afternoon tea
