PS Gantt Intro
- Daniel Narayan (Unlicensed)
The Gantt contains the planned drill, charge, blast, and mining sequences.
Gantt view.
Panels | Purpose |
|---|---|
Toolbox | List of schedule actions. |
Timeline | Horizontal time axis above the canvas. |
Canvas | The workspace below the timeline. |
Lanes | Schedule data aligned to the timeline. Click in the Lanes panel to see lanes for each agent. |
Task Bar | A bar in a sequence lane that contains a start time, an end time, and a series of tasks to work on in that duration. |
Tracks | If two task bars overlap in time, they are separated into tracks. The higher track has priority. |
Task Bar State | Colour that shows above a task bar when it is active (work is being performed). If two task bars overlap in time, only one will be active. |
Task | An assignment to be drilled, charged, blasted, or mined. |
Properties | Information about the currently selected item. |
Gantt terminology.
Agents may be given instructions by dragging a task bar from the Toolbox and into the Gantt.
Each task bar has a start and end time.
Agents commence work at the task bar start time.
Agents work until either (a) all tasks are complete, or (b) the end time is reached.
Completed tasks are shown in the Sources lane and Destinations lane, in conventional Gantt chart format.
Blast 12 mining task is finished before the task bar end time.
Overlapping tasks are resolved in top-to-bottom priority order. Agents will try to execute the top task bar, then the next down, and so on. If a new task bar starts on a higher track than the current task bar, then the agent will stop the current bar and move up to the higher track.
Overlapping tasks are resolved in top-to-bottom priority order.
What makes task bars interesting is that you can queue up a series of tasks (like dig blocks on a bench), that automatically reschedule around other delays like shutdowns or tramming.
Low priority tasks are automatically resumed after high priority tasks are complete.
If the Shared Agents function is enabled in the Final Configuration step PS Final Configuration , in the Gantt chart, there is a new row called Other User. In the Scenarios window on the left, there is also a new Shared Agents panel. Every time the other user runs the schedule, it will copy a snapshot of the sequences and scheduling breadcrumbs to the shared directory, which you can see in the other user row. If more than one user is scheduling, you can use the Shared Agents panel on the left to choose which one you want to view.
Gantt with Shared Agents enabled