Pengfei’s digitalization case was showcased at the Symposium on the Integrated Development of Digital Mines to Enhance Inherent Safety.

Release Date:

2024-01-09

On January 8, the Symposium on the Integrated Development of Digital Mines to Enhance Inherent Safety was held in Wuhu, Anhui Province. Pengfei’s “Smart Visual Three‑Violation Management Platform” for Shanxi Majunyu Changxin Coal Industry Co., Ltd. was honorably selected as an outstanding case in the 2023 initiative to advance inherent safety through the integrated development of digital mines. A total of 20 cases were chosen nationwide, each serving as both an industry benchmark and a model for wider adoption.

Zhang Xuanming, Vice President of Pengfei Group, and Liu Feng, Director of the Digital Intelligence Center, attended the event as representatives, joining experts, scholars, and industry leaders to discuss the construction and development of mines in the new era. They shared Pengfei’s latest achievements in advancing smart‑mine initiatives, highlighting significant progress in safe production, quality improvement and efficiency gains, as well as groundbreaking advancements in technological innovation.

During his case presentation, Liu Feng stated that Pengfei has been proactively exploring the most efficient production methods, achieving optimal productivity, and ensuring the highest levels of operational safety. The company has successfully built smart mines—exemplified by its Changxin Coal Mine—and developed a suite of digital mining applications, including AI‑powered intelligent identification and management of “three violations.” To date, 135 smart algorithmic scenarios have been deployed both aboveground and underground, covering the entire mining production process—from extraction and excavation to machinery operation, transportation, and ventilation.

By seamlessly integrating the front-end security management system with the Group’s data mid‑end, Pengfei has achieved deep convergence and interoperability between its intelligent visual capabilities, the data mid‑end, and the enterprise OA collaborative office system, thereby establishing a closed-loop application for enterprise safety supervision that enables “automatic early warning, automatic notification, and automated response.” Guided by a dual-prevention mechanism, it combines intelligent vision with multi‑dimensional data analytics, leveraging a security management dashboard to provide real-time risk situational awareness and trend forecasting for managing the three types of violations in workplace safety. Currently, the platform’s algorithmic recognition accuracy exceeds 95%, enabling risk identification within seconds and incident handling within minutes. As a result, management efficiency has improved tenfold, accident rates have dropped by 90%, operational costs have been reduced by 12%, production costs by 20%, and production efficiency has increased by 40%, leading to a significant enhancement in coal‑mine production management.

In addition to being selected as an outstanding case this time, Pengfei Changxin Coal Mine has achieved significant results in implementing “intelligent video‑based prevention of the three violations” through digital and intelligent transformation, earning widespread recognition from the industry. In 2023, it was highlighted and promoted by the Shanxi Bureau of the National Mine Safety Administration as a model for smart mine development, was named an “Annual Outstanding Case of Digital and Intelligent Transformation in Smart Mines” by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CCID), and successfully obtained the highest AAA-level certification for the integration of informatization and industrialization.

Promoting the digital transformation of mines is both a necessary step in building a science-and‑technology powerhouse and a manufacturing powerhouse, and it also bears on the quality of efforts to build a safe and a digitally advanced China. Pengfei will continue to leverage the leading role of intelligent manufacturing in driving industrial transformation, actively advance the development of smart mines, and create new models and business formats for the integrated development of digital mines, thereby providing robust support and contributing more exemplary cases to foster high‑level safety and high‑quality growth across the nation’s mining sector.

The Symposium on the Integrated Development of Digital Mines to Enhance Inherent Safety was co-hosted by the Policy, Regulations, and Science & Technology Equipment Department of the National Mine Safety Administration and Xinhua News Agency’s China Economic Information Service. The event aimed to showcase the practical applications of digital technologies in improving safety standards within the mining sector and to further advance the industry’s safe, green, and high-quality development.