Schedule Simulation

Optimize your schedule execution

Excavation is automatically executed according to an external schedule imported into 3D-Dig. Different material types are tracked. Dumps are assigned according to material type, position and excavation period. Material automatically reports to the dump hierarchy as the schedule is executed.

Optimize dumping

Visualization and testing
- The purpose of this module is to model digging and dumping of an external schedule imported into 3D-Dig. Multi-stage dumps are constructed via simulation using the 3D-Dig Dump Algorithm.
- This module is invaluable for visualizing various development scenarios and transport distances, testing order of dumping and visualizing interaction of excavations and dump volumes.
A hierarchy of dumps
- Blocks are excavated as specified by the schedule. A hierarchy of dumps can be assigned to each group of blocks. For assignment to dumps, schedule blocks are grouped according to:
  – schedule period
  – material type
  – position in the pit
- Just by changing a few parameters, complex multi-stage dumps are rapidly re-build and re-simulated.
- In mining simulation, dumping is usually modelled using a predefined dump geometry subdivided into blocks. 3D-Dig however simulates dumping from first principles. Dumps can be constrained by geometric models but the dumping process is simulated by modelling material flow. Once the simulation is set up the dump model can be rapidly changed and the simulation rerun.
- 3D-Dig can simulate the incremental dumping of equipment such as draglines and bulldozers. Hence dumps can be automatically generated which are a function of the equipment and operating method.
A flexible internal format
- Imported schedules are converted to a flexible internal format. This allows a wide range of schedule formats to be supported by 3D-Dig.