At this year's conference, organized by the Union of Mining and Geology Engineers of Serbia and the Yugoslav Committee for Surface Exploitation from Belgrade, held from 23 to 25 October at the Palisad Hotel in Zlatibor, leading scientists, experts and experts in the field of coal exploitation from Serbia and of the world exchanged information on their research and practical experiences.
Our company presented a professional paper on the topic of "Automatic Operation of the 6600
Bucket Wheel Excavator". An excavator control system (PLC) plays a key role in performing the automatic block digging procedure, which is a common way of operating a bucket wheel excavator. This paper describes the basics of block digging and the implementation of individual functions and operations that control system executes in order to carry out the wanted digging procedure.