25 Stochastic Scheduling Has Arrived – Finally! July 4, 2024 On November 1st (2022) I gave the keynote presentation at the Brisbane Deswik Users Conference, the title of that talk was “Deterministic Scheduling – It Is So Last Century”. If you’ve read my book then you’ll know that I think deterministic scheduling is the root […]
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24 Dealing With Incompetent Mine Planners July 4, 2024 My previous article was the first in a series of articles on Crime #11 – Inadequate Mine Planners. In this article, let’s delve further into why we might have inadequate planners. Fundamentally there are three reasons why this might be the case: 1. They are incompetent. 2. They are inexperienced.
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23 That’s Not How You Onboard A New Starter! (Crime 11) July 4, 2024 Following feedback from readers, I’ve realised that I missed a crime that should have made the Top 10 in my book Crimes Against Mine Planning. That crime is having inadequate engineers in mine planning roles, either because they’re inexperienced, inadequately trained,
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22 Stretch targets and Sporting Analogy July 4, 2024 In identifying and writing about ten mine planning crimes, there were two crimes that stood head and shoulders above the other eight, these were deterministic scheduling and optimistic plan inputs. We can not continue to ignore these two crimes, for the sake of stabilising the
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21 The Continuous Improvement Boat Sailed Without Mine Planning July 4, 2024 The planning engineer at your mine site is about to start a new plan. There is variation from site to site and also some differences between short term and long term plans. But generically, these are some of the steps that they’ll usually
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20 What Is The Cost Of An Unreliable Execution Mine Plan? July 4, 2024 Let’s start with the question – what is an unreliable mine plan? I think the simplest definition of this is a plan that has a short shelf life. It has a short life before it becomes redundant because the plan is wrong
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19 Drill & Blast Inventories – Are You Missing One? July 4, 2024 For the mining industry, inventories play a critical role in allowing us to manage variability in our plans. In that scenario, then there is at least one additional inventory we should be managing – “Available To Drill” inventory. I haven’t come across it in
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18 So You Want To Stochastic Schedule, What Should You Do? July 4, 2024 You know mining tasks have a high degree of variability around how long they take and want to build that into your schedules, so what should you do? Well, Liam (a reader of my articles) asked me a couple of questions, the
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17 Mark – Why So Many Articles On Stochastic Scheduling? July 4, 2024 I was asked a question by a reader about what to do when you don’t have scheduling software with stochastic functionality. I will answer that question in the next article, but it got me thinking about why I have written so many
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16 Why Should You Take A Different Approach To Mine Scheduling? July 4, 2024 Famously, once we humans have learned and conquered something new, we can’t go back to what we used to do. A perfect example of this is small children who have learned to crawl, once they learn to walk and run, they
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