Increasing of simulation adequacy and improvement of the effectiveness of user’s work with the system of mining simulation tool.
Period: May 2017 – December 2018
Industry sector: Mining
Client / Partner: Norilsk nickel
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- Increasing of simulation adequacy and improvement of the effectiveness of user’s work with the system of mining simulation modeling
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Our scope of work
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- Taking part in preparing technical specification for additional development of the system of planning of underground nickel ore mining operations
- Additional development of the simulation model on the AnyLogic platform
- Verification and validation of the model
- Additional development of the system of planning of underground nickel ore mining operations on the Eclipse platform
- Taking part in testing, users’ training, and implementation the system
- Simulation model user’s manual preparation
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System inputs
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- Geometric and mining-geological features of mines
- Schedules, technological operations execution order and duration
- Technical characteristics and limitations of main and auxiliary equipment and transport
- Information from external IT-systems of the client
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Structure elements of the system
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- Module for import of geometric features of mine in .dxf, .txt format
- Module for import of mining-geological features of stopes in .xls format
- System of planning of underground nickel ore mining operations on the Eclipse platform for data setting and editing
- Simulation model with interactive presentation in 2D and 3D
- Data aggregation module that allows to generate MS Excel files with the simulation results
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System outputs
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- Visualization of operational indicators of mine production, visualization of the critical indicators (bottlenecks) during the modeling
- Equipment utilization by equipment and transport type
- Financial expenses by equipment and transport unit
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Project result
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- Modeling of auxiliary equipment operation, additional development of algorithms of equipment and transport dispatching for simulation adequacy increasing
- Integration with GIS-systems «MineSched GEOVIA» and «MicroMine»
- Visualization of geometrical features of mine in 3D
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