Gemcom MineSched™ FAQ
What types of mines does MineSched support?
MineSched is used to schedule all surface and underground mine sites of all types and sizes across all commodities.
Is MineSched easier to use than other scheduling software?
Yes. MineSched has been designed to provide sophisticated scheduling capabilities that are easy to use. One of the greatest issues at mining operations today is the dependence on vendor consultants to maintain and even drive scheduling software, increasing costs and taking control of critical decisions away from its operators. Other software on the market is complicated to use and difficult to learn, tying users to the systems and making it hard to find users proficient in it and to train new users.
Who is using MineSched?
MineSched is one of the most commonly used scheduling system’s available today, having begun its life as a tightly integrated component of the world’s most popular geology and mine planning software, Gemcom Surpac™.
What is MineSched’s interactive scheduling canvas?
MineSched’s interactive scheduling canvas features drag-and-drop functionally which graphically enables you to assign resources to your underground or surface mining scenario.
Does MineSched output Gantt Charts?
MineSched produces complete Microsoft® Project Gantt charts and network diagrams with ease, allowing mining activities to be reviewed by sequence and time. These Gantt charts include essential elements such as organised activity groups and task dependency links.
How does MineSched enable practical schedules to b produced?
MineSched ensures practical schedules by validating your schedule with 3D animations, built-in graphs, Microsoft Project Gantt charts, and Microsoft Excel® outputs.
Does MineSched include blending capabilities?
Yes. MineSched blends material from mines, stockpiles, processing plants, and waste dumps, producing schedules with complete reports and graphical results in just minutes. It also creates schedules that meet quality and material ratio targets with consideration for practical mining constraints and suitable mining methods.
How does MineSched enable schedules to be visualised?
With MineSched’s 3D display capabilities, every detail of a schedule can be viewed in 3D, providing visual validation and communication of any sequence of activities. Using the software’s 2D features, engineering drawings can be plotted to scale to show exactly where mining takes place in each period.
What is MineSched’s approach to development and production scheduling?
MineSched integrates underground development and production scheduling to enable better overall schedules to be created. It makes this possible through unified workflows and the triggering of new development scheduling activities by production events.
The integration of development and production scheduling leads to improved mining efficiencies and reduced costs as shared resources between development and production support greater equipment utilisation rates.
What is the value of MineSched’s unique ability to allow users to combine interactive and target-based scheduling?
Combined interactive and target-based scheduling is a new type of scheduling capability that couples automated scheduling with the ability to selectively schedule on a period-by-period basis. This saves users a significant amount of time. Additional time saving is realised because schedules do not have to be regenerated when they are updated or modified.
