Beginning and end schedule surfaces are required to determine conformance. These surfaces can come from external software or be generated directly through the Stage Plan steps in the software. One benefit of using Stage Plans is that you can account for actual mining direction when generating schedule surfaces. This means that if a block is 50% scheduled and 50% mined, it can achieve 100% conformance regardless of the originally scheduled mining direction.
Stage Plans Setup Task consists of three steps:
The “Generate Stage Plans” option must be enabled in the ‘Settings > Options’ for the steps to be visible.
Stage Plans steps are only visible if Generate Stage Plans option is flagged in the Settings step.