Mining software tested.A Sudbury industrial automation firm is expecting big things from two new "revolutionary" software products now being tested at Falconbridge's Sudbury mines over the next few months. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Known as PORTAULS (Plant Optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. Resource Tracking Asset Utilization and Data Logging (data) data logging - (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted Software) and AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside (Automated Ventilation Scheduler), BESTECH, a Sudbury IT company, is burning the software at Falconbridge's Craig and Thayer Lindsley mines. "It's all Web-based and revolutionary," says BESTECH president Marc Boudreau. "Nobody is really doing this yet in the world." The software allows mine managers to monitor production performance and ventilation efficiencies in real time. The fast-growing 18-employee company, which builds Web-based data tracking software geared to the mining industry, is an example of the expanding mining supply cluster in Sudbury. "Falconbridge is excited and they will say it will be an interesting tool for them," says Boudreau, who adds the software should be transferable to other sectors outside mining. Their testing period will last two months. By IAN ROSS Ian Ross is the name of:
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