PS Introduction
- Daniel Narayan (Unlicensed)
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 | |
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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. |