Alastri Production Scheduler is used to generate detailed two week plans of mining activities such as drilling, charging, blasting, mining, hauling, stockpiling, crushing, and product handling.

Terminology

General

General
Project	Alastri Production Schedule file type with a .aps extension.
Scenario	A set of time-based schedule inputs.
Report	Schedule results summarized in tabular form.
Period	Schedule time increments.
Run	The software process of generating a schedule.
Scheduling	The human process of generating a schedule.
Setup
Agents	Agents execute the scheduling logic into an ordered list of schedule transactions.
Calendar	A table of schedule inputs (crushers, fleets, inventories, constraints, specifications) by time period.
Constraints	Limits on movement by period, source, destination, material and agent.
Dependencies	Dependencies prevent a block being mined before its nominated predecessors.
Fleet Assignments	A list of permissible truck/loader combinations assigned to user-defined mining areas, such as Manned/Autonomous or Production/Rehandle
Preschedule	Blocks that are mined or partially mined before the starting point of the schedule.
Product Specifications	Specify grade targets and limits for materials at source, in stockpiles, at crushers, railed or shipped.
Steps	The components of fleet movement required to transport material from point A to point B; used to model rehandle and mixed fleets.
Data
Table	A database of 3D scheduling blocks and inventories. Contains a block tree and associated reserves.
Level	The table's block hierarchy, ie. Mine\Pit\Stage\Bench
Phase	A volume of dirt in one location that is mined in one or more benches.
Bench	A volume of dirt at one elevation that is blasted in one or more blasts.
Blast	A volume of dirt that is blasted together.
Dig Solid	A volume of dirt that is mined together.
Flitch	Elevations of dig solids inside a blast.
Parcel	A material type with properties such as volume, tonnes, grades, and moisture.
Dry Tonnes	The weight of a given material, excluding moisture.
Wet Tonnes	The weight of a given material, including moisture.
Product Fields	Fields (such as grade) which have both an in situ value and a product value.
Navigation
Viewport	Any 3D visualisation area.
Tab	Tabbed working area.
Panel	Interactive frame within a tab.
Dialog	A new window that opens to enter information.
Dropdown	A dropdown box that lets you choose from a list.
Icon / Button	A button that can be pressed.
Checkbox	A box that can be ticked on or off.

21.1 Alastri Software Suite Documentation

PS Introduction

Terminology