The Trend toward Total Quality Managment in Australian Coal Mining

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-340
Author(s):  
J.T. Jeffreys
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
The Face ◽  
Coal Market ◽  
Australian Coal ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

The paper examines the trends and techniques now being adopted by the Australian coal mining industry to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the face of an increasingly difficult international and domestic coal market. Quality Assurance certification to internationally accepted standards has been gained by some operators whilst many more companies are implementing varied forms of Total Quality Control concepts. These concepts now so well established in traditional manufacturing industries, have not previously been associated with the vagaries of the coal industry but are now being pursued by many in an effort to gain or retain a competitive edge. The paper also explains some of the actual processes being undertaken by the mining companies and outlines some of the systems being developed and utilised to undertake preliminary analysis and evaluation of existing and proposed management systems prior to implementing TQC systems.

Technological Change in US Coal Mining: Issues and Evidence

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe G. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Face ◽  
Coal Market ◽  
Product Homogeneity ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines recent developments and issues concerning technological change in US coal mining. First, factors that influence the rate of technological change, such as firm profit, industry structure, and investment are discussed with attention paid to economic conditions in the 1970s. This discussion concludes that characteristics such as geological variability, product homogeneity, and the high-cost long-term nature of investment required in coal mining result in lower levels of R&D in coal mining than in other industries. However, high rates of profit and the growth in coal demand in the 1970s resulted in growth in coal mining R&D throughout much of the 1970s. Second, evidence of technological change in coal mining in examined. Data concerning the employment of scientists and engineers and R&D expenditures are analyzed. More direct measures of technological change such as productivity indexes, are also examined. These data suggest that changes in the types of coal mine work activities (health, safety, and environment as opposed to coal removal) have resulted in reduced coal productivity in the face of increasing R&D. Given the relationship between sales, profit, investment, and R&D and technological change, the most beneficial means of advancing technology in coal mining would be a healthy, sustained rate of growth in the coal market. Even in favorable economic conditions, the coal industry is unlikely to undertake highly innovative R&D because of industry characteristics that are unaffected by economic variables. This gap in innovative R&D is a possible area of public sector involvement.

“Broken Men” and “Thatcher's Children”: Memory and Legacy in Scotland's Coalfields

2013 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 78-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Perchard
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
National Level ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Occupational Socialization ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
National Union ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Collective Narratives

AbstractThis article explores the legacy of the demise of the deep coal mining industry in Scotland. It places particular emphasis on the cultural scars of this process as witnessed through miners' and managers' memories, positioning these within the context of occupational socialization, conflict, and alienation. The piece explores the enduring importance of these cultural scars in shaping broader collective narratives of decline in Scotland, and how responses were manifest in shifting political outlooks and the emergence (at both a local and national level) of a resurgent nationalism from the early 1960s onward. Drawing on the notion of the “cultural circuit,” the article examines how and why personal experience of the loss of the coal industry informed and conformed to the politics of the miners' union in Scotland, the National Union of Mineworkers Scottish Area (NUMSA). As the article makes clear, the program of closures in the industry has left profound psychological scars in coalfield communities—ones that, like the closure of other major industrial sites, shape a powerful national narrative.

CURRENT STA TE OF THE RESOURCE BASE OF COAL MINING INDUSTRY IN KUZBASS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
S.V. Shaklein ◽  
◽  
M.V. Pisarenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Underground Method

Analysis of the grade composition of the mineral resource base of the distributed and undistributed subsoil Fund as of 01.01.2018 showed a decrease in reserves of coal intended for open pit mining. In the future, the production of a number of technological grades of coal (gas fat (GZh), fat (Zh), coking fat (KZh), coking (K), coking caking low-metamorphized (KCN), coking caking (KC), lean caking (OC), low caking (CC) is possible only by underground method. The expansion of the raw material base of the Kuzbass coal industry and the support of coal production volumes, primarily by the technological of grades coking fat (KZh), coking (K), coking caking (KC), lean caking (OC), low caking (CC) involves exploration, the use of unconventional production technologies and tax preferences for coal mining enterprise

scholarly journals PENGELOLAAN DIVERSITAS KARYAWAN DALAM MEMBANGUN KEUNGGULAN KOMPETITIF

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Business World ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
The Face ◽  
A Company

This article entitled management diversity of employees to develop competitive advantage. Currently the business world increasingly tight competition. The company increasingly hard in fighting over scarce resources and consumers. The competition took place at both levels local, regional, national and international level. Companies are able to compete will be the winner in the competition. In the face of environmental conditions that increasingly erratic company should be able to operate optimally, that by having the competitive edge. Diversity can give you an advantage for the company especially in serving customers who are also diverse. HUMAN RESOURCES company that came from many different backgrounds have the talent of individuals and different experiences so that it can give you different ideas and can serve a diverse market anyway. It is certain that the diversity of employees at a company many benefits, however it is not denied that the diversity also poses many challenges. human resources management should plan and manage their employees being multiform in such a way that would give maximum performance for the company .To create this company should apply the principle of total quality management and Total Quality Control in managing their employees.

Quantifying SWOT analysis for the Indian coal mining industry using Fuzzy DEMATEL

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorokhaibam Khaba ◽  
Chandan Bhar
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Fuzzy Decision Making ◽  
Quality Improvement Initiative ◽  
Mining Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Coal Mining Industry ◽  
Indian Coal

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis for the Indian coal mining industry using Fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory. Design/methodology/approach After obtaining 17 factors from literature and expert opinion, an interview questionnaire was designed and tested to assure the content validity of questionnaire. A group of 15 qualified experts consisting of 4 professors from academic institutions and 11 management professionals from mining sector with substantial experience were consulted. Findings The result from causal relationship implied that the decision makers should focus on improving the ability of exploitation and production using quality improvement initiative such as lean production, developing research and development units for clean coal technology and working with strong exporters. This study also finds that foreign investment in mining sector is also a main factor that highly influences other factors. Research limitations/implications The study is based on personal judgments and the shortage of respondents limits the study to ensure the validity. Practical implications The stated strategies both for the government and industry through SWOT analysis could facilitate improved productivity of the Indian coal industry if adopted. Originality/value This paper demonstrates a process for quantitative SWOT analysis for the Indian coal mining industry that can be performed even when there is dependence among factors.

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