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Construction of a heuristic architecture of the production line management system in the JSW S.A. Mining Group from the point of view of output stabilisation and quality improvement as well as maximisation of economic effects

heuristic methods in planning problems resolution; geological modelling of the deposit; production scheduling; IT systems architecture; production quality management

Effective implementation of new market strategies faces the mining enterprises with new challenges, which require precise assessment instruments of the carried out business to be met at the level of mines, preparation plants, coking plants, and steelworks. These instruments include deposit, technological, and economic parameters, which together with a safety margin, determining a percentage reserve level of each parameter, shape the profitability of undertaken projects. The paper raises the issues of designing an IT architecture of the system for deposit modelling as well as the mining production scheduling, implemented in the JSW S.A. The development and application of the system was important from the point of view of the overriding objective of the Quality Programme of the JSW Capital Group, that is increasing the effectiveness of deposit and commercial product quality management. The paper presents next the developed required specification of the technical architecture, necessary to implement systems as well as the required actions necessary to integrate with other IT systems of the JSW Group. The heuristic technical architecture of the JSW S.A. production line management system, presented in the paper, allows to analyse the production process profitability in a carried account system in the area of mines, preparation plants, and coking plants of the mining group of the biggest European coal producer for metallurgical purposes.