PS. Calendar tab

The Calendar tab consists of two main parts: Dashboard and Calendar itself.

Dashboard

Dashboards allow a user to create custom Calendar layouts. This can be used to organise rows into a concise summary of equipment used, tonnes moved, and grades achieved. More details see here.

Calendar Inputs

Input the necessary planning parameters, such as crusher rates, dig rates, truck numbers, and product grades for the schedule.

Switches

Enter the switch values by period.

Open

Calendar switch values by period

Ratios

Enter ratio values by period.

Open

Calendar ratio values by period

Stockpiles

Enter capacity limits and turnover triggers.

Force Mode

Can force a stockpile into build mode, reclaim mode, or off entirely. This allows the user another level of control over stockpile blending.

Turnover Trigger

• Turnover triggers only apply to Blended and Mutex stockpile types.

• If a stockpile hits the turnover trigger during the period, it switches from building to reclaiming.

Capacity Limit

• Stockpile capacity is set by the Chunk Template in PS. Stockpiles.

• Chunk Template capacity is the sum of chunks in PS. Stockpile Chunks step.

• If the Capacity Limit is set to less than the Total Capacity, then the stockpile will pause building (it will not reclaim).

• If the Capacity Limit is set to greater than the Total Capacity, then it has no effect.

Stockpile Sets

For mutex stockpile sets, Force Mode can force all stockpiles in a set into build mode or reclaim mode.

To determine which stockpile will be reclaimed next, give it a higher priority in the mutex stockpile set or use -1 to force it to immediately switch to reclaiming the chosen stockpile.

Crushers

Enter crusher rates by period.

Dumps

Optionally enter dump limits in the Calendar. Note that dumps automatically detect their own volume, so manually constraining their capacity is rarely required.

Default Rates

Default rate used for non-mining activities (Drilling and Charging). It is used when you are running a Scenario in Mining only mode to put a cool-down timer between when a blast is exposed and when it can be mined, in order to focus on the dig sequence before doing drilling/charging.

In other words, it looks at all the blocks that haven't been blasted and adds a delay to those blocks that represents drilling/charging to avoid picking unavailable blocks by the 'simulating' drilling and charging occurring through a delay.

The intent is to set these rates very high, so that Drilling and Blasting dependencies don't interfere with the Digging schedule. For example, 100,000kt of explosives in a shot and default delay of 10,000t/hr, would result in a 10hr delay.

Haulage Flags

Enter haulage flags by period.

Agent Priorities

If two agents are assigned to the same block, the agent with a lower priority will stop and wait for the agent with a higher priority.

Trucks

Enter truck numbers and time usage.

Agents

Enter agent rates, number of allowed trucks and maximum instantaneous trucks. Instantaneous trucks will be the maximum allowed trucks at an instance for a particular transaction set.

Truck Assignments

Set the maximum trucks that can be used by each fleet grouping.

Optimisation

Enter cash flows and grade targets.

Toolbar

Items of toolbar above the calendar