Solutions

Minemax’s mine planning and scheduling solutions enable mining companies to create practical and economically optimal plans that help them achieve production requirements, maximize resource utilization, and optimize business value. Our solutions cover a comprehensive range of business requirements within strategic and operational mine planning.

You can explore Minemax’s solutions according to your business requirements, our product offerings or your role.

Minemax solutions by requirements

• Collaborative mine planning and scheduling: You want to develop economically optimal long-term plans and easily translate them into optimal short-term plans in a collaborative environment. Thereafter you want to collaboratively manage operational change while achieving mine plan compliance and preserving strategic value.
• Strategic planning: You need an economically optimal schedule for a mine%rsquo;s development over the long term while dealing with all the constraints associated with development, mining, material handling and processing.
• Operational planning: You need to refine a component of your long-term schedule and fill in the details for a practical short-term operational plan that deals with all the constraints associated with the mine development and production.
• Pit optimization: After developing a block model, you now want to find the optimal pit for your deposit and understand its sensitivity to costs and metal prices.

Minemax solutions by product offering

• Minemax Tempo is a scalable and integrated mine planning solution with collaboration and optimization capabilities for mid-to-large-size mining operations. It can be used for long-, medium-, and short-term scheduling and for dramatically improving mine plan compliance.
• Minemax Scheduler is used for long-term strategic mine schedule optimization and process modelling.
• iGantt is a tool for open-pit and underground production scheduling that integrates Gantt chart, 3D visualization and spreadsheet views of a production schedule.
• Minemax Planner brings together the technologies of optimization and 3-D interactive visualization to provide a mining engineer with a user-friendly, fast tool for determining optimal pits, generating NPV-optimal schedules, and performing strategic analysis.

Minemax solutions by role

• General Manager of Mine Planning: achieve plan alignment at each level of your mine planning process
• Mine Manager: meet production and mine plan compliance targets
• Manager of Planning: easily refine a long-term plan into a short-term plan and quickly understand the impact your tactical responses will have on the long-term plan
• Long-term Planner: efficiently produce and update an optimal strategic plan against varying constraints
• Short-term Planner: produce a practical and optimal operational plan and thereafter, quickly know when actual production is not progressing according to plan