Short-term Planner
Produce a practical and optimal operational plan and thereafter, quickly know when actual production is not progressing according to plan
A short-term planner’s job is never done. Being guided by the confines of the long-term plan and having to deal with uncertainties on the ground, your job is a delicate balance of enabling operations to be productive and following the long-term plan. If a pit is flooded or a wall fails, material will be sourced from somewhere else to meet production targets, but how does it affect the long-term plan? You want a solution that shows you how actual production is progressing according to plan and lets you quickly reschedule to get back on plan when you are not tracking as closely as you need to be.
Features for Short-term Planners
- Near real-time feedback of planned vs. actual progress
- Automated updating of reserves
- Accurately model truck and shovel resources and see resource utilization
- Automatically calculate rate with multiple resource types assigned
- Constraint-based optimization for fast schedule generation
- Easy-to-see visual cues showing schedule validity
Our solutions
Minemax offers two solution options for operational short-term planning:
- Minemax iGantt is the original solution for operational planning which provides an easy-to use Gantt chart / 3D visualization approach to scheduling.
- Minemax Tempo is the new innovative solution for Integrated and Optimized Mine Planning. It translates long-term plans into practical and optimal short-term plans, automatically calculates a plan’s compliance with a longer-term plan, and helps to close the loop between actual production and the short-term plan.
These two solutions are compared in this table.