Mine Planning and Scheduling Solutions

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