Dassault Systèmes Strategic Mine Planning (SMP) process regularly demonstrates value improvements of 5% – 60% across a range of projects.
In this post, I explain to you some methods that are useful for us to achieve this improvement:
Strategic Mine Planning (SMP) is about solving complex problems to reconcile the maximization of value or some other corporate objective, together with the fulfillment of economic, operational, safety, and environmental restrictions. The traditional way of managing the planning process consists of executing some optimization cycles separately that considered these restrictions and allowed us to have scenarios that satisfy profitability requirements.
However, this way of working presents 2 inconveniences:
• no integration of the optimization stages
• no control over the parameters that would enable a better understanding of the effect of each variable on the results.
Just add limited time to carry out the exercise to that and we find ourselves with insufficient capacity for analysis and few scenarios to choose a better plan from.