Every project must have at least one crusher, which represents the commercial output of material from site.
To add crushers:
- Go to Haul Infinity > Designer tab:
- Find or create a crusher called "Crushers/CR1"
- Go to the Setup tab > Crushers step
- Press the green plus icon to add a crusher
- Rename the crusher to "CR1"
- Select a processing stream from the dropdown, such as wet plant / dry plant.
- Toggle availability types to add to the calendar, such as Planned/Unplanned Availability, Use of Availability, & Operating Efficiency.
- Select a capacity field from the dropdown, such as wetTonnes.
Crushers must be represented by a node in Haul Infinity. The node name must follow the convention Crushers/myCrusherName.
Crusher Streams
Sometimes one real world crusher must be represented by multiple crushers in ATS, since each "Crusher" may only produce one product type.
Example:
A mine has two crusher bin locations. Each crusher bin feeds both wet and dry plants. The site produces a Standard and a Special sale product.
We add a crusher to represent every stream of material, and a constraint to limit the totals through each gate.
- Crushers
- CR1_wet_standard
- CR1_dry_standard
- CR1_wet_special
- CR1_dry_special
- CR2_wet_standard
- CR2_dry_standard
- CR2_wet_special
- CR2_dry_special
- Constraints
- CR1 crusher feed limit, across all CR1 streams
- CR2 crusher feed limit, across all CR2 streams
- Standard product tonnes limit, across all Standard streams
- Special product tonnes limit, across all Special streams
- Wet plant throughput tonnes limit, across all Wet streams
In the Calendar, we leave each Crusher unrestricted in capacity, and control the feed to each bin via the Constraints.