Dassault Systèmes' Lean Mine Construction is a collaborative tool designed to improve project design,
planning, procurement and construction management.
Dassault Unveils New Project Management and Enterprise Decision-making Platforms
Lean Mine Construction has been designed to ensure that the applications and knowledge required to complete projects on time—and on budget—are available on one platform. Lean Mine Construction connects mining companies with their contractors and partners in a collaborative environment for site infrastructure and processing plant design, project planning, procurement and construction management.
Perfect Mine and Plant is claimed to allow all levels of a mining organization collaborate to make the company more agile in response to operational performance variation, emerging business opportunities and changing market conditions. Executives, planners, and mine managers use data from across the mining value chain, along with decision-making applications, to optimize long-term plans, align financial objectives and ensure that all levels of the organization are synchronized, for greater strategic control.
“Success for the mining industry comes from two sources of competitive advantage: increased productivity through a stable operating model facilitated by technology and the implementation of disruptive technologies that can change the game. Companies will need both to succeed,” said Tony O’Neill, group director, technical and sustainability, Anglo American. “By using 3-D modeling of concepts and providing the ability to rapidly and dynamically test ideas in a more expansive way, Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform plays a key role in addressing some of the mining industry’s business performance challenges.”
Key benefits of Lean Mine Construction
include:
• Better mining operational productivity
through 4-D simulation and modeling to
identify the right site infrastructure layout
and plant processing capacity before
construction begins;
• Lower costs and less errors by enabling
design of modularized infrastructure and
plant components, which can be tested
and assembled in a virtual world before
fabrication is approved; and
• Support of rapid adjustments to engineering
designs when requirements
change, and facilitates just-in-time delivery
of components to site and further
lowers costs through integration of
design engineering, project scheduling
and procurement.
Perfect Mine and Plant offers these
advantages, according to the company:
• Reduces variability through optimized
scheduling and operational control;
• Delivers on the promise of big data to
improve productivity, efficiency and cost
control across mining organizations;
• Provides management with the data
needed to achieve predictable production
output and meet production targets; and
• Breaks down the silos between mining
and processing functions and provides
the simulation and validation capabilities
required to allow innovative ideas to be
explored and proven before they are
implemented.