Anthropotechnical systems in the mining machines designing processes

Author: T. Winkler

The present methods for designing of mining machines have a technocentric character and were focused mainly to obtain the possible best technical parameters in designed machines.

The complicity of current roadway and longwall systems draw the attention to the meaning of human factor during their operation.

In the operational process between men and technical means anthropotechnical systems are created. In the anthropotechnical system between man and the technical mean two types of relationships arc formed: relationships of somatic type and relationships receptor type.

These relationships are assessed in the light of ergonomics and safety criteria. It was assumed that the state of anthropotechnical system, in which the relationships arc assessed for the assumed system of criteria is called the criterial state.

A model representing the real anthropotechnical system and containing all its features that are assessed in the light of detailed assumed criteria is called the criterial model. Examples of anthropotechnical systems found in the mining machines were presented in the paper. Methods for machines and human silhouettes modelling using the CAD software were described.