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Checking the Use as Agent option in the Loader Types setup step establishes one-to-one relationship and results in a linked Fleet and linked Agent being automatically added to the project whose name match that of the loader type. 

Stockpile Reclaimer is an Agent used only for material movements between Stockpiles and Crushers. It is added to the list of Agents by default.

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Image assigned to the agent and used in the Animation:

Loader

Shovel

Excavator

Drill

Dozer

Quantity Field

Select Quantity Field for each Agent.

Proportional Extraction

Single Miner Agent

Many projects only have a single “Miner” Agent, which generates every single transaction in the schedule. There might be a Waste Fleet, a South Pit Fleet, an Autonomous Fleet, and a Contractor Fleet, but they all report to the single Miner Agent that is executing the schedule transactions.

In this example, for any given pit, the user can only assign the fleet, not the individual diggers within the fleet. Although the targeted tonnes may amount to "one digger", the actual utilisation may be spread across multiple dig units within the fleet.

If the user is running a long term schedule, or has a restricted mine site where tramming is limited, then this may be a practical way of scheduling with acceptable accuracy.

A single Miner Agent may select the fleet appropriate to the current schedule transaction:

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Scheduling by tonnages with a single Miner Agent:

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Multiple Loaders as Agents

If the user is running a short term schedule, or has a sprawling mine site, then the solution may be to use Multiple Loaders as Agents.

With this setup, when the user assigns "1x SH90" to the South Pit, then only that exact digger type is used:

1. The user assigns the "SH90 Agent".

2. The "SH90 Agent" selects the "SH90 Fleet".

3. The "SH90 Fleet" contains the "SH90 Shovel".

Although these pieces are working together under the same name, they are doing different things.

1. The Agent is generating schedule transactions.

2. The Fleet is a bucket of truck and loader hours.

3. The Shovel expends hours to move tonnes (it has a dig rate and a utilisation).

By chaining one digger type to one Agent, the user has much more granular control over the dig sequence of individual diggers. 

"Loaders As Agents" groups each digger type under its own Agent:

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Scheduling by loader units with Loaders as Agents:

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