Minning on Demand - Dirk Claessens (IBM)
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"Mining on Demand" How Information Technology Can Transform the Mining Industry Dirk Claessens Vice President, Metals & Mining, IBM Capetown, February 2015
Transcript of Minning on Demand - Dirk Claessens (IBM)
"Mining on Demand" How Information Technology Can Transform the Mining Industry
Dirk ClaessensVice President, Metals & Mining, IBMCapetown, February 2015
With the end of the commodity supercycle behind
us, the mining industry has taken its initial
productivity measures.
More is required, the mining industry is in need of
agility & visibility.
Current technology facilitates this objective.
We call it « Mine-on-Demand ».
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DEMANDSUPPLY
Current Status: Lack of Optionality & Integration kills Agility & Visibility
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Establish Sell & DistributeExploit BeneficiateDiscover Rehabilitate
DEMANDSUPPLY
Current Status: Lack of Optionality & Integration kills Agility & Visibility
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Establish Sell & DistributeExploit Beneficiate
Lack of optionality in
the design and planning
phase
Lack of optimization
and optionality in scheduling
phase
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• POC at a platinum producer demonstrated an 8 week current process reduced to minutes
• Multiple realistic design scenarios can be created for immediate evaluation and optimization
• Leverage descriptive, spatial visualization to inspect, analyse and animate each scenario to verify feasibility – with the ability to share options over the web
Outcomes & Benefits
OPTIONALITY IN DESIGN OPTIONALITY IN SCHEDULINGMINE-ON-DEMAND
The Solution : Optionality in Mine Design and Scheduling
• Baseline, Unconstrained and Constrained Scenario Building
• Optimized schedules for multiple business factors and constraints, e.g:
Outcomes & Benefits
• Shaft hoisting capacity • Reef Density
• Tramming capacity • Waste Density
• # Panels per raise line
• Commodity Price Forecasts
• # Raise lines per half level
• Exchange Rates & Inflation Forecasts
• Extraction %
DEMANDSUPPLY
Current Status: Lack of Optionality & Integration Kills Agility & Visibility
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Establish Sell & DistributeExploit Beneficiate
No mineral asset visibility as
inventory on an enterprise level
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Enterprise Systems
Min
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Asse
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sThe Solution : Enterprise Visibility Of The Mineral Asset
Copyright, MineRP 2014
Translate to Inventory
Maintain Inventory
UnderstandMineral Asset
On Demand, auditable, traceable Mineral Asset Management• Continuous control of Mineral Asset status, at
any level of granularity• Exposure of data sources for analysis, by
analytics tools•Mineral Asset knowledge founded upon fully
auditable/traceable mining technical information• Commercially advised mining decisions and
mining-advised commercial decisions• Standardised , integrated information
framework spanning the whole value chain.
Outcomes & Benefits
ORE RESERVE ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION
IndexSp
ace
DEMAND
SUPPLY
End-to-end Integration will drive Agility and Visibility
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Establish Sell & DistributeExploit Beneficiate
« Sell what you have and then mine what you sold. »
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Conclusion. …On Demand Mining, providing the Agility and Transparency required can be delivered today.
Come and visit IBM and MineRP’s stand so we can explain..
