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systems( think geology, mine planning & scheduling, survey etc.) integrated to ERP systems through an elegant framework of Extensible Mediation Platforms, modelled on a typical Enterprise Mediation Bus. The closest analogy to MineRP’ s approach is that of an ERP system, but one where the client has the option to retain their external original planning and geo-scientific systems as‘ modules’ to the Spatial ERP. MineRP integrates with and amalgamates data from current MTS systems in use on mines, unifying all mining technical data within the MineRP Spatial Database. Integration is bi-directional – meaning spatial data can be published from the MineRP Enterprise Framework back to the source systems for discipline-specific work to be done.”
Whether for green or brown fields operations, mine planning across any time horizon is time consuming and laborious. This means mines are typically able to create and assess only one mine plan per annual planning cycle, and shorter term planning is mostly a non-iterative process. Manually drawing CAD mine designs to be sequenced and scheduled is the major bottleneck, and the handover between design and financial costing and budgeting can be‘ spreadsheet hell’, says Megannon.“ Over the past two years, MineRP has invested heavily in R & D to transform mining planning from traditional silo-based planning to modern, Parametric( Parameter Driven) Unified Business
Planning. We announced the release of MineRP Planner 2017 in January 2017, formally replacing our popular Mine2-4D, MineCAD and CADSmine products over time.” MineRP Planner is a framework based mine planning solution and promises several paradigm-shifting capabilities: n Rapid Mine Planning: Parametric Mine Planning enables complete mine planning from detailed design to sequence and schedule, fully constrained to the latest geology and as-builts in as little as 15 minutes n Team Collaboration and Version Management for local or global teams means regional and head office mining and financial executives can collaborate interactively on project and operational planning alike using the MineRP Framework’ s integrated workflow capabilities n The centralised spatial database hosted locally or in the cloud contains all standards and rules required to enable standardised planning processes and standards effectively. Moreover, design and scheduling information is readily accessible in standardised formats for integration with other systems in the enterprise n Web-based 3D Visualisation and Analysis of all plans, including animation, comparison of plan versions and 3D visualisation of any MTS data against the plan, geological models etc is supported out of the box According to Empie Strydom, VP Marketing at
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MineRP’ s unified business planning solutions includes native integration between Mine Planning and Business Planning( ERP financial enumeration of mine plans). MineRP and global ERP provider SAP have joined forces in a SAP Co- Innovation Laboratory program to deliver results in 2017, based on MineRP’ s patented GeoFinance concept. With MineRP Planner and MineRP GeoFinance mine plans are persisted as detailed financial and operational plans through SAP IBP( Integrated Business Planning) into SAP BPC( Business Planning & Consolidation). MineRP and SAP have already engaged the first global mining house to implement this solution in the first half of 2017, and are looking to deploy the solution to mines spanning various regions, minerals and mining methods.
“ This dramatic new development natively integrates the technical and financial domains for bi-directional planning and optimisation. The approach delivers true optimisation from the order book through geology – ie order book to pit to port including all material flow and logistics, in a rapid response to varying economic, price, environmental, and other external conditions or operational events that may arise unexpectedly. With MineRP Planner and MineRP GeoFinance, mines are able to create comprehensive business planning alternatives persisted into the SAP financial management modules, executable as works orders with concomitant bills of material at