iGantt 4 with Optimizer Released
iGantt is an easy-to-use tool for detailed open-pit and underground production scheduling. Now with the same industry proven optimization engine as Minemax Scheduler, the optional iGantt Optimizer brings powerful constraint-based optimization to activity production scheduling.
New iGantt Optimizer
- Maximum and minimum levels for constraints
- Quantity and quality constraints
- Relate new constraints to existing iGantt attributes
- User-defined time periods for constraints
- Open-pit sample constraints:
- Drilling
- Digging
- Trucking
- Detailed Waste Dump Sequencing with Accurate Trucking
- Processing
- Blending
- Underground sample constraints:
- Decline development
- Level and Ramp Development
- Total Development
- Cable Bolting
- Drilling
- Stoping
- Filling
Features and Benefits
- Activity-based or resource-based scheduling of production activities
- Easy-to-use, interactive Gantt chart 3-D visual scheduling using string, polygons and triangulated solids
- String files associated with development and triangulation files associated with stope shapes can easily be read in. Current formats include Surpac, MineSight, Datamine, Vulcan and DXF
- Animations can be generated that validate the practicality of the schedule
- Easy-to-use interactive Gantt chart interface enables new users to develop schedules from day one
- Productivity increases through integration with other business software and databases
- Develop a set of contingency plans for possible economic/market changes
- Increased responsiveness to unplanned events by rescheduling with iGantt
- User-definable reports enable tracking of key production targets in either tabular or graphical form
- 3D viewing of schedules for presentation and visual validation of schedule practicality
- Optimizer Module
- Maximum and minimum levels for constraints
- Quantity and quality constraints
- Relate new constraints to existing iGantt attributes
- User-defined time periods for constraints
- Auto-scheduling module
- Heading development rates are automatically adjusted to ensure maximum equipment utilization at all times
- Optionally limits the maximum number of concurrent development headings
- Can limit both maximum total development rate and maximum individual heading development rate
- Able to interrupt development of a heading when a higher priority heading becomes available