Roadway Systems

KOMAG develops concepts, designs and technical documentation of the following roadway machines and equipment

• roadheaders,
• side-discharge loaders,
• drilling jumbos,
• platforms for assembly of roadway supports,
• protecting structures for operators stands,
• diesel drives for underground applications,
• diesel and electric locomotives for underground mine railway,
• diesel narrow-gauge locomotives,
• suspended monorails,
• transportation-and-manoeuvring battery drivetrains,
• mine cars and others,
• railway junctions,
• underground and surface drill rigs,
• rotary-percussive drills,
• small mechanization equipment: hoists and winches with different drives,
• hydraulic systems for roadway machines of different types,
• hydraulic power packs,
• water filters,
• spraying systems for roadheaders and longwall shearers,
• air-and-water curtains for transferring points and roadways,
• spraying nozzles,
• diesel drive systems.

Solutions for other branches of industry:

• engineering-and-geological drill rigs,
• water curtains for open-pit mining industry and processing plants,
• protecting structures for operators of construction machines,
• hydraulic drive systems.

Hydraulics

We offer development of concepts, designs and technical documentation of the following machines and equipment:

• underground and surface drilling jumbos,
• rotary and percussive drills,
• small mechanization devices: drills, screwdrivers, saws with hydraulic  and pneumatic drive,
• hydraulic power packs with electric and hydraulic drive,
• filters for water and oil-water emulsions ,
• devices controlling flow of water,
• auxiliary equipment for cooling systems,
• emulsion plunger pump,

and the hydraulic systems for different types of machines including the following ones:

• roadheaders,
• longwall shearers,
• side discharge loaders,
• drilling jumbos,
• locomotives and haulers  used on the surface and mine undergrounds,
• suspended monorails.

We realize the research projects associated with hydraulic supply systems.

Longwall Shearers

KOMAG develops concepts, design projects and technical documentations of longwall shearers and their assemblies:

• shearer ranging arms,
• shearer haulage units,
• flame-proof casings for electric equipment,
• high-pressure hydraulic installations,
• water-spraying systems for longwall shearers,
• cutting drums of longwall shearers.

• special gears for driving conveyors and rail-mounted vehicles,
• flame-proof casings for electric equipment of rail-mounted vehicles,
• small-size drilling rigs,
• equipment for shaft sinking.

Horizontal Transport

R&D projects as regards machines and equipment for wheel, conveyor and rail transportation as well as designs for technology and machinery industry for materials displacement and transportation systems are realized at the Division of Horizontal Transportation.
We also realize projects for modernization of operating machines and equipment as well as designs of additional equipment for the existing machines.

We design the following machines and equipment:

• Belt conveyors and flight-bar conveyors.
• Self-propelled platforms, locomotives as well as electric and diesel drivetrains.
• Bunkers and equipment for storage of loose materials.
• Gravitational chutes and feed stream mechanical dividers.
• Pumps for hydro-transportation and for water.
• Cutter heads of mining machines (e.g. shearers, dredger cutters).
• Lifting machines and mining-and-transportation machines.
• Advanced drive systems.

Designs and documentations as well as modelling of production systems are realized with use of state-of-the-art information technologies and state-of-the-art CAD-3D designing methods.

 

We develop and provide the following:

• Calculations of continuous transportation equipment.
• Services as regards technical consultancy on horizontal transportation and drive systems.

Contact:

Marek Kalita, Ph.D. Eng.
Manager of the Division of Machines and Equipments
phone: +48 32 2374662
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In the field of modelling and ergonomics methods we offer:

• Ergonomic analyses, covering among others testing the range of limbs, field of vision, comfort zones, made according to the PN-EN 894 and PN-EN ISO 6682 Standards.
• Analyses and shaping the relationships in anthropometric systems of complex mechanical systems based on author’s methods using the computer models of work and machines environment.
• Early identification of technical hazards and health risk during operation of mechanical systems  (with use of Virtual Reality)
• Expert opinions, prepared upon the court request, to recreate accidents and their causes.
• Visualization of accidents circumstances and causes, creation of multimedia training materials presenting progress of events in a form of computer animation or video recording of the real places.
• Development of interactive training materials, so called Serious Games, using state-of-the-art solutions of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality based on authors computer programmes and commercial graphic engines.
• Creation of technical manuals, which include applications of differentiated functionality, realized by the author’s INSTO system. Preparation of the solution basing on S1000D, MIL-PRF-87268A standards in a version for desktop computers, mobile devices or in a form of internet applications,
• Creation of internet application enable data collecting, achieving and processing, basing on own software programme solutions (PHP, JavaScript, MySQL)
• Preparation of information materials illustrating the principle of operation of machines and equipment including advertising materials for the purpose of trade fairs and exhibitions,
• Construction of mobile simulators for machines operation for the purpose of trainings (application recreating working environment and the selected subassemblies of the machine + real control components like remote controller or control panel)
• Digitalization of movement of human silhouettes using the Motion Capture method with application of state-of-the-art IPI Soft solutions.

Activity in the field of virtual prototyping methods:

• static calculations with use of Finite Elements Method (FEM), including linear and non-linear models of materials,
• optimization of shape of spatial computational models (topographic optimization),
• thermal numerical calculation,
• numerical strength calculations of toothed gears,
• calculations of dynamic phenomena with material and geometrical non-linearity (contact effects)  included – impact loads, simulations of collisions,
• Multibody System (MBS) analyses, which enable to assess the kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems and to define the boundary conditions for FEM,
• verification and validation of computational models,
• creation of advanced Internet applications aiding engineering work,
• numerical calculations for visualization of accidents, damages of technical means,
• numerical calculations of flow of liquids and gases with use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method, including multi-phase analyses.

Examples of the project within the virtual prototyping:

• Safe Trans Design (STD) modular system for shaping the safety during underground transportation
• Identification of dynamic loads acting on load-bearing components of suspended monorail tracks
• Dynamic loads acting on operators of suspended monorails
• Determination of coefficients of static stability of machines for the set operational and load conditions
• Strength analysis of the system for stabilization of angular gears

Contact

Dariusz Michalak, Ph. D. Eng.
Manager of the Laboratory of Modelling Methods and Ergonomics
phone: +48 32 2374362
e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.