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    2D radar technology increasing productivity by volumetric control and hopper car positioning in brown coal mining
    (Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Winkel, Reik; Augustin, Christian; Nienhaus, Karl
    The continuous brown coal mining technology has been highly advancing by mechanical design within the last decades. The driving factor has been the demand for increasing productivity and total availability. Indurad - the industrial radar company - addresses both of these factors with its solutions in increasing the utilization of mining machinery. Indurads technological solutions are helping to optimize the brown coal flow chain from across the. Starting at the excavators working bench (cutting depth control) via the belt transfer units (positioning), on the conveyor belt (volumetric flow) and finally to the stockpile volume scan (stockpile inventory control). The key for its solutions is a highly robust unique two-dimensional radar technology which has been specially developed for the rough mining environment. Within the paper successful applications are shown for the German brown coal mining as well as other solutions realized with Indurad's technology in the global mining industry.