Industry
Mining.
Pit, plant, and the road, rail, or port that has to take the tonnes.
Open cut or underground, the schedule fails in the same place: the dig, the crusher, and the way out of the site were planned as three jobs. We plan them as one file, or we join the files the teams already keep.
What the schedule has to carry
- Enabling works
- Access, camp, power, and water, with the date the pit is allowed to start.
- Pit development
- Pre-strip, benches, and blast-to-load. Decline metres when the mine is underground. Quantities only when you can stand behind them.
- Plant and crusher
- Structural, mechanical, and wet commissioning as one sequence, not three calendars that never meet.
- Haulage and load-out
- Roads, conveyor, or rail spur, and the ramp-up in tonnes only as a curve you already own.
Where the three levels show up
- Project planning is the pit, the plant, or the load-out as one schedule you can submit or update.
- Integrated planning is when mining, the plant, and the rail or port each hold a plan.
- Portfolio planning is several pits or several sites, after one of those schedules can be trusted.
Not in this offer
- A guaranteed first-ore date.
- A fleet product, or a promise that trucks will not clash.
- A study that ranks the mine, or an estimate of the capital cost.