TS Crushers

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.Â