Long-term Planner
Efficiently produce and update an optimal strategic plan against varying constraints
Long-term planning is all about getting a balance between business objectives, possibility a strategic plan and the operational capabilities of your site. You want to quickly generate a long-term plan at the regular planning intervals of your organization.
Ideally, your manager will communicate all of the constraining influences on the long-term plan, but in reality you know that once you have submitted a plan, there may be a few more iterations as new requirements come into play. If you have to do this manually, the turn-around time on plan iterations would be unacceptably long, so you need an automated tool that turns these scenarios over very quickly.
You know that if you use one of those automated approaches that slowly moves forward in time, it can easily get "stuck" in its myopic vision. You need an approach that doesn’t just consider what needs to be done at an instant in time, but one that also considers the effect of planning decisions on the future.
Minemax offers two solution options for strategic long-term planning:
- Minemax Scheduler is the original solution for strategic planning that has set the standard for strategic schedule optimization at mid-to-large-size mining companies world-wide.
- Minemax Tempo is the new innovative solution for Integrated and Optimized Mine Planning that helps you to create high-value strategic plans and translate them into practical operational plans.
Both solutions use the same tried and tested optimization technology that companies have relied upon for over 12 years.
These two solutions are compared in this table.