TS. Crushers

Every project must have at least one crusher, which represents the commercial output of material from site. 

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Crushers step overview

To add crushers:

1. Go to Haul Infinity > Network tab:

   1. Find or create a crusher called "Crushers/CR1".

2. Go to the Setup tab > Crushers step:

   1. Press the green plus icon to add a crusher.

   2. Rename the crusher to "CR1".

   3. Select a processing stream from the dropdown, such as wet plant/dry plant. 

   4. In the Availability Types to Specify column toggle availability types to add to the calendar, such as "Planned/Unplanned Availability", "Use of Availability" and "Operating Efficiency".

   5. Select a capacity field from the dropdown, such as "wetTonnes". 

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.