Underground Mine Scheduling
From heading advancement to stope production, MineSched generates long-term and short-term schedules. Working from underground designs, MineSched can schedule mining activities with ease.
- Ensure resource capacities are never exceeded with resource allocation and levelling.
- Schedule using “actual” dates to create the most accurate mine plans.
- Change scheduling parameters at any point along a development heading.
- Use powerful constraint definitions on any group of headings.
- Allocated resources to headings based on user defined priorities and constraints.
- Schedule based on heading length, volume, tonnage or quantity of any product.
- Report on development tonnage and grades from block, polygonal and grid models.
activities that are easily viewed in 3-D animations
Development
MineSched schedules any underground mine design. Full schedules can be produced within minutes. Based on user preference, parameters can be entered globally and by heading either through a worksheet or in the graphical user interface. Additionally, precedence relationships can be manually set or automatically generated based on design layout. Additionally, users have total control over the scheduling process by visualizing and interacting with their data in 3D.
Production
MineSched meets all production needs for both surface and underground operations. With total flexibility in resource definition, it supports long term feasibility studies, detailed shift-by-shift scheduling of resources, mining, and ancillary activities. Mining constraints can be applied to ensure that practical schedules are generated.
MineSched enables users to model and manage stockpiles and processes. Waste dump designs can be block modelled and a filling strategy defined based on geotechnical, environmental and financial considerations. As well as automating waste scheduling, reporting and 3D visualisation, it also generates a spatial database of the materials within the dump, which is critical for both long term dump management and reclamation.
Production Blending
MineSched's Production Blending features employs proprietary blending algorithms to meet grade targets at the mine, on stockpiles, and at the processing plant. These algorithms are a unique combination of satisficing and optimising sub-algorithms, which are dynamically applied as the schedule is created. It is the combination of the sub-algorithms which delivers both excellent results and performance.
With MineSched's Production Blending capabilities, stockpile strategies can be improved, resulting in to lower costs. When choosing the best blocks to mine, MineSched does not just look at the blocks available at the surface or at the face. It looks ahead to see what blocks will become available in the future, utilising this information in the decision-making process. The user can control how far ahead MineSched looks and the discount factor it applies to blocks mined in the future. MineSched allows planning engineers to reduce or eliminate expensive stockpiling strategies. Where stockpiles are necessary, the Production Blending module delivers an optimal stockpile strategy that minimises re-handle and the requirement for outsourced materials.
