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Mining - Fast Service for Deep Down

Client

UK COAL is Britain’s biggest producer of coal, supplying around 7% of the country’s energy needs for electricity generation. The group has 5 ongoing deep mines located in Central and Northern England with substantial reserves and employs 4,000 people. It has 1 active surface mine and has received planning permission for a further 3 sites.

Industry sector

Mining and quarrying of energy producing materials.

Challenge

To ensure reliable performance of the Terminal Services Server to provide support to the Wonderware Factory Suite System.

Solution

Advantech 610 19” rack mount Wonderware FactorySuite A2 System.

Implementation

The Advantech 610 19” rack mounted computer was selected and is effectively a single board computer in a 19” rack chassis. In use this has proved to be very reliable and offering performance that is far higher than would be expected from its Pentium III processor.