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lightning speeds. While at first it may seem like the improvements to mine planning claimed by MineRP Planner merely enable mines to do more of the same things, just quicker, MineRP claims significant benefits that can be achieved by doing unified resource planning: n The mine planning process becomes a real-time, iterative, business-case driven business process involving technical, financial and other disciplines. This means that for the first time ever, it is now possible for mines to be agile, responsive organisations able to immediately adjust production plans whenever material changes in market conditions or production capabilities occur n Being able to rapidly generate planning alternatives does not only affect productivity on individual operations, but also gives multi-asset organisations the capability to simulate capital distribution strategies, the effect of cost-curtailment programmes and other strategic initiatives across entire portfolios or segments thereof n Moreover, the direct, granularly aligned integration of actual mining and production activities with SAP work breakdown structures and costs codes implies previously unheard of capabilities to do enterprise-wide area and activity based cost and revenue management – with the ability to spatially drill down to the smallest production unit and visualise its effectiveness and efficiency in 3D n Lastly, the capability to rapidly provide parameter driven, autogenerated planning alternatives does not only create the expected benefits of technical excellence and more cost effective processes, but experience has shown that more options more often than not delivers unexpected benefits which manual, traditional planning approaches would never have tabled for testing.“ The next greatest weakness in planning, in our opinion, lies in the lack of integration of the various Operating Technologies( OT / Industrial IoT) into the planning cycle and paradigm. When combined with MineRP’ s Enterprise MTS integration platform, hyper-computing based advanced analytical and cognitive solutions are able to deliver real-time planning responses to actual production realities. MineRP believes mines can be run like real-time factories. The systems and data we need is out there- it is merely a matter of orchestrating it. Currently, the many different mining disciplines with their respective schedules operate in isolation, leaving supervisors to sort out the shortcomings of the lack of integrated environments. MineRP is working with partners such as IBM, SAP and equipment manufacturers like Sandvik to introduce the concept of a single, integrated planning environment utilising a central CAT( Capabilities, Activities and Time) database. With MineRP CAT, resource allocation and availability can be understood instantaneously in a single domain. MineRP and its partners are already engaged in several Digital Orchestration Centre( DOC) projects. These projects firstly utilise MineRP’ s Enhanced Production Scheduler( EPS) to bring some of the higher priority schedules together in one application. Combining schedules also lays the foundation for a Master Business Schedule( MBS) and integrated operational control.”
Carlson enhances 3D offerings
Carlson Software through its mining vision says that those seeking to operate mines with increased productivity, advanced materials tracking and enhanced on-site safety, look to the company for its automated mining software.“ While providing approximately 90 % of the US coal industry with powerful mining solutions, Carlson Mining has expanded beyond coal into phosphate, trona, salt, clay, limestone granite, and other markets throughout the world. In the ever-changing world of mine development and reclamation, enhancing mining software is an ongoing process. The Carlson Mining Division has seen through some recent improvements in their products such as expanded 3D abilities within surface equipment timing, added support for underground solids, and significant redesign of the haul truck cycle analysis routines.”
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