Products for Mine scheduling
Enterprise scheduling and visualization for smarter mining
Epiroc EPS is a class-leading enterprise production scheduler designed for underground and open-pit mining operations. It combines powerful Gantt chart scheduling with advanced 3D visualization, animation, and optimization capabilities. It delivers a unified platform for planning, evaluating, and communicating mine schedules across all horizons – from life-of-mine to shift-level execution.
Epiroc EPServer supports multiple users on a single schedule, enabling seamless integration of long-term and short-term scheduling horizons to minimize discrepancies and provide detailed information for informed decision-making on long-term KPIs influenced by short-term factors.
Schedule with precision. Visualize with clarity. Optimize with confidence.
Key features and functions
Enterprise scheduling
- Gantt chart-based scheduling for production and non-production tasks (e.g., maintenance, construction, ventilation).
- Interactive task updates and dependency management.
- Automated task sequencing and Resource allocation.
- Dynamic in-app reporting features include Dashboards, PivotTables, and Crosstab reporting capabilities.
- Scenario comparison and simulation for decision support.
Visualization & animation
- 3D visualization of spatial data with configurable legends and colour schemes.
- Partition geometries by time scale to animate period-correct extraction sequences.
- Dynamic selection and highlighting of tasks and geometries across EPS and EPS Viz.
Optimization & evaluation
- Blending, Resource and Target levelling algorithms to optimize extraction
- Full integration with Elytica for schedule optimization.
- Real-time schedule evaluation against 2D/3D geological block models.
- Exclude extraction losses for accurate schedule durations and reporting.
Collaboration & interoperability
- Blending, Resource and Target levelling algorithms to optimize extraction
- Full integration with Elytica for schedule optimization.
- Real-time schedule evaluation against 2D/3D geological block models.
- Exclude extraction losses for accurate schedule durations and reporting.
Reporting & importing/exporting
- Export geometries and task data to SQL databases for downstream reporting.
- Import geometries in a Datamine file format with a dynamic link to the schedule
- Export Datamine file formats for 3rd party software consumption
- Display dynamic reports during schedule animation.
- Generate planned vs. actual reports to improve operational excellence.