Other
Petroleum and LNG / Coal Seam Gas (CSG)
- Reliability of Supply (RoS) – production infrastructure, port operations, shipping plans
Alumina
- Capital Expansion - transport, surge capacities, port configurations
- Performance Improvement – overland conveyor, truck and fleet sizing
- Material Handling System - maintenance planning
Gold, copper, nickel, other minerals and bulk commodities
- Capital Expansion - crusher rates, conveyor capacity and rates, stockpile sizing
- Capital Expansion - multiple options, mixed metal product streams
- Capital Expansion - sensitivity of new crusher, maintenance
- Capital Expansion - test operating rules, reliability and maintainability of new plant
- Underground Performance improvements – underground rail, material handling
- Mine Planning - stope development, chute operations, trucking, work schedules
- Plant simulation (mixed metals) - changing key storage capacities, variable feed grades, rates, operator rotation
- Capital Expansion – de-bottlenecking, rail improvements, operator rotation, maintenance planning
- Process Improvement - multiple de-bottlenecking - cranes, smelting chemistry, surge bin sixing, other process improvements
Transportation – rail, trucking, ports, shipping
- Capital Expansion – new rail link, modelling of Availability penalties
- Performance improvement - impact of changing from flexible to fixed rail timetables, power consumption
- Performance improvement – capacity modelling, timetable testing, fuel replenishment
- Capital Expansion - port capacity, channel capacity, berthing, draft and other considerations
For more information, view our case studies.
The Role of Discrete Event Simulation and Advanced Planning and Scheduling in Mining Supply Chains:
The Role of Discrete Event Simulation and Advanced Planning and Scheduling in Mining Supply Chains
As global markets grow ever tighter, increasing pressure is being placed on mining projects to deliver higher capital efficiency, through increased throughput or lower capital and operational expenditure. Ensuring capital efficiency requires the inclusion of risk management, via identification, evaluation and mitigation of risks, as an essential component in the delivery of successful projects.
Olympic Dam Expnasion:
Olympic Dam required the expansion of the mine, materials handling systems and plant. A study was commissioned of the entire underground mining operation, from the stopes to the mill stockpiles. The aim of the study was to determine the capacity of the materials handling system, whilst taking into account all inherent planned and unplanned system down time and system interactions.