Applied Study on the Mine Production & Management Decision Support System Based on Data Warehouse

With accumulating data in mine production, integration of the existing separate information systems is of great importance in enhancement of both production management and support decision-making. BIStar, a production & management decision support system base on data warehouse technology was developed as a user-friendly data analysis, display and decision support tool, and was presented with illumination of its main framework and detailed discussion of its certain key points of the subsystem, such as data acquisition system, central database system, access tools. An application example of information analysis conducted by a large mine corporation was also cited for analysis of feasibility & cost-effectiveness.