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Using the Calendar File in Short-Term

Scheduling in GEOVIA Minex
October 14, 2016
By Ranajit Das (http://blogs.3ds.com/geovia/author/ranajitdas/)

Did you know that you can better utilize the Calendar File in GEOVIA MinexTM
(http://www.geovia.com/products/minex/) within short-term scheduling? Users can enter detailed
information in the Minex calendar file on maintenance, downtime or planned stoppages for any
equipment – either within the same calendar or in separate calendars.

Different calendars can have different shift timings or production factors. You can also add different
calendar numbers for various excavators for short-term planning to include planned equipment
maintenance. The following example shows part of a Minex .ascii calendar file for a particular excavator,
factoring in maintenance time. You can edit this file according to your requirements.

You might have already used Month, Week and Days as scheduling time boundaries, but you can also
click on the clock icon next to Month(s) to use a date control file (.ctl format) to control and execute time
steps defined by you. You can also create your own time steps down to the hour. Please ensure that
your reserve database is up-to-date and accurate enough to work in the short term.

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1. To browse for the .ctl file, click the clock icon and select the .ctl file format (this can be created in an
application such as Notepad on Windows)

2. Your .ctl file needs to be in the following format. Note that you will have to adjust the start time with
the .ctl file manually, for instance changing the start time to STARTDATE 01-JAN-20 08:00.

01-JAN-20 07:00
01-JAN-20 19:00
02-JAN-20 07:00
02-JAN-20 19:00
03-JAN-20 07:00
03-JAN-20 19:00

If you found this post helpful, you may also be interested in How to Combine Smaller Sub-Pits Into a
Single Main Pit with Minex (http://www.geovia.com/blog/how-combine-smaller-sub-pits-single-main-
pit-minex) or the usage of Tcl/Tk Scripts to Automate Minex. (http://www.geovia.com/blog/using-tcltk-
scripts-automate-minex)

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Ranajit Das
Senior Mining Industry Process Consultant, GEOVIA at Dassault Systèmes

Ranajit is a qualified Mining Engineer with over 22 years of experience in mine

planning, consulting, operations, logistics, exploration and feasibility studies. Ranajit
has previously worked for the Steel Authority of India, Santa Fe Mining in Chile and
JSW Steel in India. He specializes in GEOVIA Minex and Surpac.

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