For every mining company, before the even scratch ground, the most overriding imperative is to be confident that the plans they have made will deliver a desirable rate of return. It can keep CEO’s up at night as they ponder if the company will achieve what was promised to investors. Mine managers and engineers share this concern about delivering to their promises. The key for everyone is – confidence. The more of it you have, the more likely targets will be hit and promises kept.

Software that helps plan, schedule and optimize has been around for decades, but it has been lacking significant new innovation to help boost confidence. It limits the number of analyses, and sophistication of analyses that can realistically be run by engineers. There is now, however, a new capability for the mining industry that has been improving confidence, and increasing economic results in other industries such as manufacturing by allowing for thousands of different options to be reviewed in a very short time frame.

Dassault Systèmes’ Robust Strategic Mine Planning  enables you to accurately model your mining operations to simulate mine feasibility from conception through production. It pulls together vast sources of information into a fully integrated and optimized mine plan that can then be turned into executable mine schedules.

With Robust Strategic Mine Planning, you gain the ability to create and review many more planning options than you can today, to boost your confidence in the one that is ultimately chosen. In addition, should economic conditions change in the marketplace, or operational objectives change at the mine, you will also have off-the-shelf plans ready to be implemented.

Robust Strategic Mine Planning provides you with a suite of visual and flexible tools for creating simulation process flows—consisting of a variety of applications, including commercial software, internally developed programs, and Excel spreadsheets—in order to automate the exploration of planning alternatives and identification of optimal performance parameters.

Solution highlights:

• Produce plans to a defined level of confidence using simulation and decision support.
• Understand the driving factors and levers in your mining process.
• Have Confidence in your Strategic and Tactical plans before execution.