Mine Planning Automation within Mine Advisor™ provides a comprehensive and flexible approach to planning underground and surface mining operations, with explicit consideration of the selected mining method. Planning workflows, dependencies, and logic are adapted to reflect how the mine is actually developed and operated—not abstracted into generic schedules.
Rather than treating planning as an isolated task, Mine Advisor™ embeds it within a unified digital environment that combines geology, mine design, surveying, equipment status, and operational constraints into a single, consistent context.
Planning That Reflects the Mining Method
Mine Advisor™ planning logic is method-aware by design. The system takes into account the specific mining method—such as room-and-pillar, longwall, cut-and-fill, sublevel stoping, block caving, or shaft-based access—and adjusts structural mining units, development and extraction sequences, activity dependencies and constraints, resource allocation and equipment usage, and safety, ventilation, and geotechnical considerations.
This ensures that planning reflects real operational practices and regulatory requirements, rather than forcing mines to adapt their workflows to fixed software assumptions.
Planning Across All Time Horizons
Mine Advisor™ supports long-term, medium-term, and short-term planning within the same platform, consistently aligned with the chosen mining method. Long-term planning defines the overall development strategy, production targets, and method-specific mining sequences; medium-term planning refines development rates, extraction blocks, equipment deployment, and inter-area dependencies; short-term and shift-based planning enable operational control, execution tracking, and rapid adjustment to changing conditions underground.
All planning horizons are connected, allowing changes in method, sequence, or constraints to automatically propagate through dependent plans.
Integrated Data, Not Isolated Schedules
Planning in Mine Advisor™ is fully integrated with geological and resource models, survey and as-built geometry, mining method–specific design parameters, equipment configuration and availability, and operational and safety constraints.
Automated actual-versus-plan reconciliation provides continuous feedback, allowing planners to evaluate performance, detect deviations early, and adjust plans proactively within the same methodological framework.
Scenario-Driven and Adaptable by Design
Mine Advisor™ supports rapid scenario generation and comparison, enabling engineers to evaluate alternative mining methods, sequences, and production strategies where applicable. This is especially valuable during early mine design, expansion, or method transition phases.
The platform adapts to each mine’s geological conditions, mining method, and corporate standards—making Mine Planning Automation a practical, evolving decision-support tool rather than a static scheduling system.
From Method-Based Planning to Execution
By linking planning with monitoring, reporting, and real-time operational data, Mine Advisor™ closes the loop between design and execution. Short-interval control and analytics support shift-by-shift management while preserving alignment with long-term, method-driven plans.
Mine Planning Automation becomes a continuous, method-aware planning and control process embedded directly within the mine’s Digital Twin.
