What was ‘long wall mining’ and what influence did it have on the development of socio-technical systems theory? critically discuss how this theory developed so many years ago can still be applied to warehouse design and improvement today.

Long wall mining is a form of underground coal mining the place an extended wall of coal is mined in a single slice (mostly 0.6 - 1.0 m thick). The long wall panel (the block of coal that is being mined) is quite often 3 four km lengthy and 250 -400 m wide.

Explanation:

In the late 17th century, England has always been the founding excellent role model of long-wall mining. Miners chopped the coal down along the width of its face, remove coal as it fell, and handle the autumn roof behind its face using wood adhesives.

These low-tech long-wall mines continued to operate in the 1970s. A product-new example of this has been once the Gladstone mining company in Centerville, Iowa ' one of the last long wall mining companies in the U.S.

This large wall mine did not even use a distribution belt but relied on poneys to move coal pits from the side to the hill where a hoist took the toilets onto the top.

Long wall mining has been commonly used because the last stage of old room mining and pillar mines was finished.