Mine ventilation is a safety discipline bound by regulations: the standard of right and wrong does not live in the software but in the regulations, the site and the consequences. Ventilation-related systems built without a ventilation engineer usually end up with a correct interface and a wrong conclusion — the charts look good, but the judgement about the air network does not hold. Our specialists are involved from the requirements stage, rather than someone being asked to review it shortly before delivery.
How software relates to expertiseFor the company's ventilation-related software, this team takes part in requirements, algorithm definitions and result checks. Software engineers own stability; ventilation engineers own correctness. The two are signed off by different specialists.