CAE Studio 5D Planner

CAEs successor to Mine2-4D

Detailed Mine Planning for Open Pit and Underground Operations

CAE Mining has taken the lead in developing CAE Studio 5D Planner, CAEs successor to Mine2-4D, the highly popular solution for mine design and scheduling. Whilst maintaining its popular process-oriented approach, CAE Mining has made improvements in usability, processing and data management. Some of the biggest improvements are a result of upgrading CAE Studio 5D Planners platform to CAE Studio. CAE Studio 5D Planner incorporates many of CAE Studios features including stunning 3D visualization and a completely revamped, comprehensive data management system.

Key enhancements:
Brand new Control Panel with Smart Workflow Streamlined Project Setup Integrated 3D Visualizer with Dynamic Connectivity to Gantt Chart Production Scheduler (EPS) Redeveloped and enhanced Open Pit module Brand new Project Manager based on CAE MineTrust technology Integration with Hard Dollar project costing software (cost as the 5th dimension)

Conceptualise
CAE Studio 5D Planner provides an advanced mine design system within a full 3D environment. Its object-oriented 3D design interface allows digitizing in multiple viewpoints in real time. Interrogation of block models during the design stage allows economic criteria to be used in the design of production excavations.

Control
CAE Studio 5D Planner is integrated with a full Gantt Chart Production Scheduler (EPS), placing all data from design, block model interrogation, sequence and schedule in a single database. This results in a single source of the truth, eliminating the need for manual creation of schedules and reducing errors.

Create
CAE Studio 5D Planner maximizes the use of automated processes to eliminate many repetitive tasks normally associated with Mine Planning. This dramatically speeds up the planning process allowing for thorough scenario investigation leading to the optimal mine plan.

Collaborate
CAE Studio 5D Planner includes the new Project Manager, which uses CAE MineTrust database technology to manage spatial geological, design and survey data for a multi-user, multi-role environment. In addition, multiple options to present and distribute mining information are available, from spreadsheet reports and Gantt charts through to dynamic 3D animations and even PDF3D documents.

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Inside CAE Studio 5D Planner

Underground
Flexible design types make it easy to customise mine development and production stopes for any mining method. Derived Activities model other mining tasks, such as drilling and backfill, to be incorporated into your schedule. By creating a database of standard design definitions, design consistency is maintained throughout a project mine site or company. Changes in the database are automatically applied to the design.

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Naming Conventions
The file naming convention can be built up from attributes and then split out to create a summary structure in the Gantt Chart Production Scheduler (EPS). It can mimic the actual mine naming convention allowing a better understanding of the schedule and improve communication to others. Real time animated 3D graphical representations of the mine plan in EPS simplify planning and reporting.

Open Pit
Strategic planning data contained in imported models can be used by CAE Studio 5D Planner to define more detailed designs and schedules resulting in medium term and budget plans that honour the optimized long term plan. Designs can be as detailed as required making CAE Studio 5D Planner suitable for feasibility studies or more detailed budget planning. 3D Mining blocks are automatically generated by intersecting pushback boundaries, topographical surfaces, bench definitions and blast or pseudo blast outlines.

Functions within EPS include:

Calendars
Multiple calendars can be applied to both resources and activities e.g. development and backfill crews working on different shift systems. It is possible to schedule shutdown or non-work periods and define multiple reporting calendars for different purposes.

Resources
Resources can be either equipment or labour and can be assigned to mining activities. Resource levelling allows the creation of a resource based schedule where advance and production rates are dictated by resource availability and relative work priorities.

Activity Sequencing
Using CAE Studio 5D Planners leading methodology, a design can be automatically sequenced quickly and easily. Changes to the design do not require manual re-sequencing. Manual link creation is also possible and the sequence can be tested at the click of a button.

Prices/Costs
Prices and costs can be profiled over time to reflect the variations in planned revenue, cost and cash flow. Available integration with Hard Dollar, industry-leading project cost estimation and control software, allows for multiple detailed cost scenarios based on a cost database.

Geological Model Depletion

All development and extraction can be interrogated against a block model. Development can be depleted from the model ensuring it is not double-counted within a stope or mining area when calculating the production tonnes and grade.

Production Scheduler
Activities can be Rate-driven or Duration-driven or Cyclic (e.g. drill/charge/blast/muck), where each stage in the cycle can have its own resources Actuals can be entered and tracked and compared to multiple schedule baselines with real time visibility of the impact on the remaining schedule and period quantities Resource availabilities may be profiled over time, which will be taken into account during resource levelling A dynamic and customisable summary view (Crosstab) always shows the period quantities of the schedule, making it easy to see the impact of adjustments or delays on the bottom line. Tonnages, grades and other base properties are dynamically calculated and powerful grouping, filtering and pivot table functions allows for easy reporting with copy-paste exporting to Excel.

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