PLAN
Work Manager
A powerful platform for shift-level planning and execution that bridges the gap between planning and operations, providing real-time visibility, control, and adaptability.
PLAN
Work Manager
A powerful platform for shift-level planning and execution that bridges the gap between planning and operations, providing real-time visibility, control, and adaptability.
Help your teams work smarter, react faster, and deliver the plan every shift
Epiroc Work Manager is a powerful, mobile-enabled platform for shift-level planning and execution. It bridges the gap between planning and operations, providing real-time visibility, control, and adaptability. With integrated scheduling, live feedback, 3D visualization, and AI-powered optimization, it empowers teams to execute safely, efficiently, and in alignment with strategic goals.
A short-term planning and work orchestration solution designed to empower mining operations with real-time control, visibility, and adaptability. It integrates seamlessly with operational schedules, ERP systems, and fleet platforms – enabling safe, efficient, and compliant execution of production, maintenance, and ancillary tasks. For mining operations with ever-growing complexity, Work Manager imposes structure and offers transparency for execution that is compliant to the plan.
Real-time shift management
- Monitor and adjust work progress live.
- Resolve conflicts and minimize downtime.
- Eliminate delays and ensure readiness.
Resource and task planning
- Automatically allocate teams and equipment.
- Optimize schedules to improve productivity and reduce idle time.
Multi-user collaboration
- Enable planners, supervisors, and operators to work together in real time.
- Improve communication, accountability, and responsiveness.
Data-driven reporting
- Access operational data to support management reporting.
- Drive continuous improvement through performance insights.
Key features and functions
Schedule consolidation and 3D animation
- Consolidate all mine schedules - including development, stoping, engineering, and maintenance - into a single view before releasing them for execution.
- Combine the schedule with mining geometries to produce a 3D animation of the short‑term schedule
File and data imports with centralized work publishing
- Translate and import common scheduling files and data from Deswik, Datamine, Microsoft Projects. csv’s and database tables into the Gantt chart user interface.
- Publish work to the Work Manager databases for centralized orchestration of work.
Intelligent scheduling engine
- The scheduling engine coordinates execution scheduling while handling operational delays and conflicts, generating the management information required for effective decision support.
Multi-user collaboration and master data validation
- Multi‑user desktop app, built on a message‑based architecture supported by a Microsoft SQL Server, for allocating work orders and capturing in‑shift performance feedback.
- Consolidate and validate master data across the Work Management solution
All execution tasks included
- Master data covers all execution‑related tasks, including organizational structures and the equipment used in mining activities.
- The scheduling engine coordinates execution scheduling while handling operational delays and conflicts, generating the management information required for effective decision support
Optional add-ons and value-added integrations
- Work Manager Mobile
- Enables operators to submit real-time progress updates from their work location via a mobile or tablet Android device.
- AI optimization with SimulatOre
- Automatically assign teams and equipment based on skills, availability, and task requirements.
- AI-driven schedule adjustments to maximize productivity and minimize downtime
- 3D Visualization of activities
- Visualize workplace, equipment, and task status in 3D with our Visualizer tools.
- Fleet and automation
- Compatibility with mixed fleets and automation stacks (e.g., LinkOA/Open Autonomy, Epiroc AutoNav) supports broader operations orchestration where needed
- Streamline data exchange with ERP systems
- Certified integration pathways to SAP and Microsoft Dynamics via InterOp; Work Manager’s ERP automation aligns to this backbone.
- APIs and developer access
- API key issuance and interactive specs for connected services, supporting customer/partner integrations
Work Manager Mobile
Work Manager Mobile is a mobile application that extends the functionality of Work Manager. It allows supervisors and operators to view and report on scheduled tasks. The application also enables operators to submit real-time progress updates from their work location.
Work Manager Mobile provides real-time control, integrates with Epiroc Work Manager, and offers mobile workflows to help supervisors and operators manage tasks and ensure compliance directly at the workplace.
Empowering field teams with near real-time visibility and control
Work Manager Mobile gives supervisors and operators the ability to react to real world events in real-time:
· Execute and provide feedback on work planned, even offline.
· Record in-shift conflicts.
· Automated data flows between Work Manager and Work Manager Mobile.
· Visualize planned workplaces in a 3D viewer.
Key features and functions for Work Manager Mobile
Supervisor App
- Gantt chart overview of operator scheduled tasks.
- Task list view with comprehensive task details per operator.
- Approvals and acknowledgements interface for real-time validation.
Operator App
- Task list with detailed task instructions.
- Integrated checklists to ensure compliance with SOPs
Task Execution
- Carry out tasks that have received approval and confirmation.
- Exchange feedback from operators or supervisors
Documents and measurement
- Attach relevant documents for operator and supervisor reference.
- Capture and log additional task measurements.
Delays and notifications
- Log delays with predefined reason codes, notes, and supporting images.
- Attach notes and photos directly to tasks or specific locations
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