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Culture and training essential for greater longwall automation: Wilson

IN ORDER for new longwall automation to deliver greater productivity and safety there must be buy-in by the workforce at the face as well at the site management level, according to former Peabody Energy veteran and principal of SBW Mining Steve Wilson.

 Site management must ensure that training and culture at the face support longwall automation.

Site management must ensure that training and culture at the face support longwall automation.

A progressive site management will be prepared to tackle barriers to automation posed by unwillingness to embrace technology with properly focused training programs and changes to company culture, he told...

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