Underground Metals: Planning

Underground mine planning solutions for all planning horizons

Deswik's powerful resource-based Gantt scheduling and advanced schedule optimization tools deliver value driven plans for the world's most complex mines. 

Planning Capabilities

Deswik Planning Software

Tools for all planning horizons

  • Complete planning solutions for strategic, operational, and execution planning.
  • Operate stand-alone or integrated with Deswik Spatial using the interactive scheduler.
  • Detailed inputs and model controls to mirror real-world constraints and business objectives.

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Optimize with industry-leading algorithms

  • Wide range of tools to optimize schedules across all planning horizons.
  • Produce strategic and tactical plans that align production targets with business objectives.
  • Surface to underground transition optimization.

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Deswik Planning Software

Dynamically link your mine design and schedules

  • Prepare designs and convert directly into schedulable tasks.
  • Easily update scheduling tasks with design changes or survey updates.
  • Interact directly between tasks in Planning and graphics in Spatial.

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Deswik Apex Software Gant Chart

Advanced scheduling functions

  • Seamlessly handle large scheduling datasets required for modern detailed mine plans.
  • Maximize resource utilization with a powerful resource leveling engine.
  • Flexible combination of manual scheduling tools and automated rules for short-, medium-, and long-term planning needs.

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Connected reporting data

  • View animation of planning results linked to Spatial or directly in the Planning visualizer.
  • Customizable table based reports and interactive dashboards to quickly analyze scheduling outcomes.
  • Batch exports for streamlined outputs into business reporting data pipelines.

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Model real-world variability of mining

  • Run unlimited planning scenarios to see the range of possible outcomes.
  • Understand the impact of variability on critical mining outcomes like task and area completion dates.
  • Apply distributions of values for equipment rates, calendars, and calculated fields.

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Plan for the most complex underground sites

  • Advanced functionality tailored to the specialized planning demands of underground metals operations.
  • Reconcile as-builts directly to mine plan solids for comprehensive understanding of progress and compliance.
  • Automatically generate development designs and quickly convert to scheduling tasks to test impacts to production.

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Underground Metals Caving Diagram

Forecast production in caving operations

  • Models flow based on material properties rather than equation based approximation.
  • Production reconciliation updates the resource model and improves production forecasts.
  • Single flow engine models all types of caving operations.

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Deswik consulting

Mining expertise that drives real results

Deswik’s consulting services bring together technical precision and practical expertise to empower your operation. We partner with you to uncover efficiencies and drive sustainable growth, delivering tailored solutions that transform mine planning into measurable progress.

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Dynamically link your mine designs and schedules

Built on our scheduling platform, Deswik Planning handles the planning needs of any mining sector by enabling long and short-term planning horizons to sit seamlessly together in a single schedule. 

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Operational planning, shift execution and data capture

Connect your operational plans with production actuals in dynamic ways for effective data-driven decisions.

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Spatial

The industry’s most comprehensive CAD solution

With its seamless data integration, world-class 3D modeling, and geospatial analysis capabilities, Spatial is the end-to-end CAD package to create detailed design plans, improve productivity, and enable environmental stewardship.

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Strategic underground mine plan optimization software

Make strategic planning decisions that maximize the NPV of your underground mines. factoring in development and production tasks, geological constraints, equipment availability, ore grades, and financial targets.

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Cave flow modeling for the Life of Mine

Modeling of rock flow for the Life of Mine (LoM) of a caving operation for several outcomes such as recovery, dilution and production scheduling.

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