Special functions

Besides the more general data (such as operating hours, etc.) ProMIS - being a "mining information system" - offers also some rather specialized features especially designed for the mining industry. This refers to several activities e.g. drilling & blasting, mucking & hauling, etc.
Most prominent these functions become essential for more detailed data acquisition. Rather than reporting only the hours spent for drilling at one day, the drilling procedure can refer individually refer to a borehole, its position and orientation, or even the penetration progress can be monitiored, obviously allowing much more detailed (and complex) analysis and conclusions. Similar hauling can be reported by a daily total of hauling cycles, or the each cycle is characterized by start and end position, or eventually the haulage is completely traced e.g. by means of GPS.

Enhanced blast design

Beside the conventional description of a blast some enhanced features are offered. These become probably important in critical blasting situation, which also require increased measurement efforts. These additional measurement data must be handled by the data management system. In some cases it might be also desirable to process these data, such that ProMIS acts as a planning rather than an acquisition tool. This could be the case if diverse measure devices are used whcih do not offer a common software.

It can be a significant advantage that so the information is now available over the whole network, and anybody (with appropriate access priviledges) can review these data at any time - without deoending on some special software or special software user skills. This advantage becomes even more obvious if long term datamanagement is considered, as regularly measurement devices and software "survive" only a limited period of time.

The example on the right shows a form designed for managing blast design based on full blast-face surveying. For reason of conviniences this example runs in "cooperation" with Surpac, with ProMIS responsible for the logics, Surpac for the treatment of the geometries (creating trinagulation-faces of the wall and doing intersections). The results, e.g. the profile for each borehole are "system-independently" stored in ProMIS. Even if new procedures are introdiced, these results are still available for all blasts.

The second picture shows extended possibilities of the 3-dimensional assignment of a volume to the explosive charge, in this case bottom- and shaft charge. In this field significant developments are expected in the future - ProMIS is already now well prepeared.