about MineFED

Accurate and fast estimates

MineFED is software for open-pit mine scenario simulations delivering fast, accurate estimates of truck and loader productivities. MineFED lets you:

  • Quickly run scenarios on multiple mine designs
  • Simulate various operational parameters
  • Optimise fleet configurations
Its output applies this detail down to every material type in every block.

How MineFED works

MineFED imports mine design data, combining it with project and reference information to produce detailed:

  • Productivities
  • Schedules
  • Machine usage
Instead of manually digitising haul routes, making do with bench centroids, and coordinating separate utilities and/or complicated spreadsheets to calculate cycle times, MineFED gives you the complete picture in a single application.

Far superior to the averaged single-point calculation, MineFED combines all available design data with block-by-block calculations to give you information and detail with real depth.

Its fast and accurate estimates support forecasting on a regular basis so you can identify, monitor and tune operational changes and their effects throughout the entire life of a project.


Benefits

Increased productivity and cost control
MineFED promotes productivity improvements in a number of areas

  • Substantial reduction in the time taken to produce estimates
  • Reduced site operation costs with optimised fleet configurations
  • Increased control of costs through a dynamic estimating process that incorporates the realities of changing parameters and operating conditions

Accurate and fast estimates
MineFED runs full mathematical simulations using block-by-block calculations to determine optimal truck and loader usage. Results are very accurate, especially compared to those obtained from conventional methods (spreadsheets or custom methodologies) — all produced in just minutes for each material type in every block.

Using Microsoft technologies with its familiar Microsoft Windows look and feel, the intuitive nature and sheer calculation speed of MineFED makes it quick and easy to use for mining professionals at all levels.

Easy what-if analysis
MineFED scenarios capture a full range of conditions and constraints typically affecting mining operations:

  • Varying fleet configurations
  • Dumping strategies
  • Mining sequences
  • Other parameter combinations
You can then assess the impact of these and integrate their implications to mine design or operations into your planning process.

Consistency and standardisation
MineFED introduces standard estimation processes across your organisation as it brings mine estimating considerations and tasks under a single application — eliminating divergent and personalised estimating methodologies and practices.

Transparency and knowledge transfer
MineFED makes it easy for each business area to access planning assumptions for an estimate, together with detailed trucking and loader plans for each material type in every block. Reference data, such as truck and loader operational factors, can be customised to reflect your actual performance experience — not just manufacturer expectations — and stored for use across multiple projects.

Block and haul data is taken directly from leading industry mine planning software for hassle-free integration into your existing setup, and results can be exported to standard spreadsheet applications such as Excel.

Performance management
MineFED produces estimates suitable for use as operational targets for daily, weekly or monthly reporting, while its captured detail allows for easy analysis when the inevitable operational variance occurs.

MineFED is one of the few systems — if not the only system — producing results that can be used as targets for real-time measurement and feedback systems.