In response to the most commonly requested enhancement in GEOVIA MineSchedTM – improving the haulage process – we have put forth a long-term roadmap to include the requested haulage process features. The first major step is the improvement of the user experience when setting up and running the haulage functionality in MineSched.
Historically, MineSched supported limited truck movement control. Users would first need to trace over each haulage route in the mine design software they were using before importing the strings into MineSched. If changes needed to be made to individual roads, all haulage routes associated with that road would need to be amended. The old data would then need to be removed from the MineSched scenario and the amended versions re-imported. There was no truck movement control from the working face through to the haulage route, so trucks took a straight line. The latest release of MineSched assists all open-pit Mine Planning Engineers in their haulage planning to save time, especially on sites that involve long and complex haulage routes.
Users may:
1. Import individual haul roads and use these roads to build haulage routes. The benefit of this process is that each road is associated with any number of haulage routes, which removes the need to trace along a haulage route prior to importing data to MineSched.
2. Define bench roads, which control the path of a truck from the working face through to the haulage route. This provides a more practical haulage route definition. Bench roads can be grouped into collections, so a large number of bench roads can be easily associated with a haulage route. The below image illustrates the defined haulage route with bench roads.
3. Link haul roads to the source data. If changes are made to the haulage design, or any haulage properties (e.g. full or empty velocities), the impacted roads are flagged in the Roads tab and a Refresh function has been created to update the haulage routes defined in MineSched.
To see these new features in action, watch the demo below:
The latest version of MineSched is provided complimentary as part of a GEOVIA Maintenance and Supportprogram subscription. It can be downloaded by creating an order through DSx Client Care & Order.
Click here for instructions on how to create a software order download in DSx Client Care & Order. If you require further assistance on how to download MineSched, please contact your local Dassault Systèmes office by phone or contact us via email GEOVIA.Support@3ds.com.
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