Studio OP
Studio OP is the complete solution for open pit design and operational scheduling. It contains functionality for both medium- and short-term planning of open pit mines.
Studio OP has tools for the design of pits and generation of mining surfaces, and allows you to generate mining blocks from pit and phase shapes. Mining blocks can be evaluated against a block model and scheduled to generate medium- and short-term operational plans. If the model contains strategic planning information such as pushback or sequencing information, this can be used.
Existing external mine designs in the form of string and surface data can be used in the generation of the mining block reserves for scheduling.
The Studio OP planning and scheduling workflow
Studio OP contains functionality for both medium and short term planning of open pit mines.
- Mine planning block model preparation and manipulation
- Tools for pit design and the generation of mining surfaces
- A managed workflow for generating mining blocks and reserves within pits, mining phases and benches.
- Rich definition of mine infrastructure including haul routes, equipment, calendars and processing destinations.
- Medium and short term operational scheduling.
The mining blocks can be evaluated against a block model and scheduled to generate medium and short term operational plans. If the model contains strategic planning information such as pushback or sequencing information this can be used.
Existing external mine designs in the form of string and surface data can be used in the generation of the mining block reserves for scheduling.
In summary, Studio OP comprises the following distinct areas of functionality:
- A Managed Workflow for creating and evaluating mining block reserves.
- Tools for creating and editing pit designs from scratch or within mining phases defined by strategic plans.
- A system for scheduling the mining block reserves to produce medium and short term operational plans, including exporting this data to Enhanced Production Scheduler for further refinement.
- A set of processes and commands for manipulating and visualizing mining data. The majority of these functions are common to all Datamine Studio products and enable the product to be implemented in an operating environment.
Each of the main functional areas can broadly be used independently, offering flexibility in how you choose to work.
Who uses Studio OP?
Open pit mine designers, planners and operational schedulers.
