A new developed software for equipment selection in mining engineering

摘要

Equipment selection in mining engineering is one of the most important decision that is affected the mine design, production planning and economic parameters in open pit and underground mining. Mine planning engineers generally use of their intuition and experiences in decision making. Mostly linguistic variables become in question and decision-makers may not know how these variables are computed. Due to the advent of the fuzzy set theory, these uncertainties are easily interpreted in decision making process. With the development of computer technology and programming of colloquial language with expert systems have fairly reduced decision makers' arduousness. In this study, a new software called EQS which is based on fuzzy set theory for equipment selection in mining engineering is introduced. The study includes concepts and theories of multiple attribute decision making in a fuzzy environment and the scope of this type of search, a Hew developed EQS software and its applications of the fuzzy set theory to mining industry problems, and presents case studies (study).