Hongliulin Leverages Huawei Cloud Stack to Embrace Intelligent Digital Transformation for Reimagining the Mining Industry

Hongliulin's Intelligent Mining Cloud

Sunlight Beneath the Mine

Coal has always been considered an essential energy source. Coal mining companies have been chomping at the bit to accelerate intelligent digital transformation for green mining and high-quality development.

Challenges

Repeated Work

30% of deployment tasks are repeated due to scattered resources.

Data Silos

The APIs of the systems were not unified. Plenty of data generated had no unified formats and could not be quickly imported. Data silos made it hard to connect information systems.

Low Efficiency

Management and decision-making is inefficient due to invalid data.

Solutions

Huawei Cloud Stack provides an intelligent coal mining cloud solution for secure, efficient mining.

Network Convergence

To achieve network convergence, Hongliulin has invested in full 4G/5G and UWB network coverage, industrial ring network upgrade and reconstruction, an F5G video ring network, cyber security protection, a modular data center, and an intelligent cloud computing platform.

IoT Breaks Down Data Silos

Huawei Cloud Stack used IoT technology to unify API standards, break down data silos, consolidate data assets, create digital twins, and achieve intelligent collaboration to pave the way for intelligent mining.

IoT could be adapted to APIs running over different protocols from different vendors in conjunction with 5G, F5G Industry OptiX, and an IP radio access network (IP RAN) based converged industrial network. The flexibility made it possible to connect over 2,600 devices of Hongliulin.

Huawei Cloud's ROMA Connect to import data from over 35 OT production systems and 10+ IT support systems to a unified data lake.

Data Governance

Huawei Cloud's FusionInsight centrally managed systems. More than 100 million data records were imported to the lake daily. More than 100 device models and 45 system models were consolidated. A robust data foundation was provided for comprehensive management, effective decision-making, and service delivery.

The AI-powered Pangu mining model provides intelligent labeling and few-shot learning. It covers over 1,000 mining scenarios, including hauling, extraction, transportation, communication, drainage, and washing. Huawei Cloud Stack harnessed this model to help Hongliulin reduce their development workload by 90%.

Benefits

The integrated management and control system allows leaders of a mining fleet to quickly dispatch tasks to workers online and leverages AI technologies to transform manual inspection of foreign objects at specific time periods to intelligent round-the-clock inspection.

The integrated management and control system reduces the time a worker typically needs to spend underground by about 2 hours, improving the overall efficiency by 30%.

The integrated management and control system allows leaders of a mining fleet to quickly dispatch tasks to workers online and leverages AI technologies to transform manual inspection of foreign objects at specific time periods to intelligent round-the-clock inspection.

The integrated management and control system reduces the time a worker typically needs to spend underground by about 2 hours, improving the overall efficiency by 30%.

Hongliulin's Vision

  • Backed by Huawei Cloud Stack, Huawei engineers took four months to identify Hongliulin's devices and import their data into lakes. They helped Hongliulin build the first ever intelligent coal mine based on the industrial Internet architecture in China and develop many intelligent applications such as the comprehensive management platform, intelligent ventilation, intelligent transportation, smart campus, and disaster prevention.

    Backed by Huawei Cloud Stack, Huawei engineers took four months to identify Hongliulin's devices and import their data into lakes. They helped Hongliulin build the first ever intelligent coal mine based on the industrial Internet architecture in China and develop many intelligent applications such as the comprehensive management platform, intelligent ventilation, intelligent transportation, smart campus, and disaster prevention.

  • Working with partners like Huawei Cloud, Hongliulin envisions spurring intelligent digital transformation and reimagining the coal mining industry.

    Working with partners like Huawei Cloud, Hongliulin envisions spurring intelligent digital transformation and reimagining the coal mining industry.