MineSight Atlas is also integrated with MineSight Haulage and uses it to calculate truck cycle times.

“Rather than building on an existing product, we started again; everything is new,” said Glenn Wylde, Mintec VP – Technical. “We built an intuitive and elegant user interface. We attended to every detail to improve client experience and to make scheduling simple and fast.”

Scheduling in MineSight Atlas features a familiar Gantt model, but with a difference. Traditionally, a single Gantt model is manipulated and filtered to provide just the right view, then switched again for another view. MineSight Atlas allows unlimited views to the schedule model. To view only activities for drilling in Phase 1, simply make a new view and filter the data. Alternate views can be added for other schedule views.

It allows users to build a destination network on a user-friendly canvas. Route mined material from an open pit or underground stope (or both) to a series of destinations. Further material movement (to/from stockpiles etc.) can also be accounted for. Destinations in MineSight Atlas now allow for lift and subzone capacities and can also be represented by actual design geometry. So you can import a waste dump design by lift, calculate the capacity automatically, route material to it during the schedule – and then see an animation of its build by period!

It tracks every equipment unit, including its planned maintenance and its variable work rate. Equipment can be easily tagged to geometry and durations of activities automatically calculated based on work required and rate.

“By creating MineSight Atlas, we’ve put you in the driver’s seat,” said Wylde. “You make the rules to ensure correct mining
sequencing.” Those rules include undermining, inter-activity and inter-phase, and 3D spatial search. “Simply define the rules and Atlas automatically adds them to the Gantt model,” he added.

To validate your schedule, MineSight Atlas includes a powerful animation engine to play through the mining sequence. This will work for any activity with geometry (mining, drilling, etc.) and for building destinations. Dynamic charts and gauges offer instant feedback on the schedule’s progress.

“All of the great interaction with the MS3D viewer remains,” said Wylde. “We made the design of polygons and solid cuts
easier than ever – including automatic clipping and solids between surfaces. Building multiple activities from a single geometry is included as a simple function. You can set up your reserve logic in the new MineSight Reserve Engine
and access multiple models during a single schedule. Configuration is completed in a single location.”

MineSight Atlas is the complete package for interactive scheduling and stockpile blending. And, true to its name, Atlas
will make the world of difference to mining productivity, says Mintec. Expect its release in January 2013.