GEOVIA is part of Dassault Systemes, the 3D EXPERIENCE® Company. While GEOVIA’s focus is currently on the mining industry, its objective is to model and simulate our planet, improving predictability, efficiency, safety, and sustainability throughout the natural resources sector. DASSAULT SYSTEMES AND MINING
When mining companies seek to increase mine productivity, they turn to Dassault Systemes for technology and services. It is home to world renowned and award winning mining solutions and to industry thought leaders who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in mining. The largest global supplier of mining software, Dassault Systemes’ GEOVIA delivers comprehensive solutions in all major mining centers in more than 135 countries at over 4,000 sites. Every major mining company is a Dassault Systemes client. WHY MINING COMPANIES RELY ON DASSAULT SYSTEMES
Dassault Systemes works in partnership with its clients to address their business goals and unique mining challenges. Through a combination of software and services, it delivers
compelling solutions that leverage mining, business and IT expertise to address key industry issues such as:
• Maintaining profits when dealing with variability in
commodity demand and production costs.
• Increasing mining and processing efficiency.
• Solving the data chaos problem that negatively impacts
decision making.
• Addressing industry skills shortages.
SOFTWARE PLUS SERVICES: PEOPLE, PROCESS, TECHNOLOGY
Mining companies rely on Dassault Systemes’ GEOVIA to drive efficiency and profitability in their mining operations. We partner with clients to provide geology, engineering, and operations’ services, which maximize the investment in its software and optimize the entire mining value chain. Typical services assignments include:
• Modeling • Automated Workflows• Design •System Configuration • Optimization •Data Management• Scheduling
GEOVIA Products
Mining software for geologists, engineers, surveyors, mine management, and more.
GEOLOGY AND MINE PLANNING
Surpac
GEOVIA Surpac™ -это наиболее популярный в мире горно-геологический пакет. Он обеспечивает эффективность и точность в работе за счет простоты в использовании, мощной трехмерной графики и возможности автоматизировать процессы.
GEOVIA Surpac™ is the world’s most popular geology and mine planning software. It delivers efficiency and accuracy through ease-of-use, powerful 3D graphics and workflow automation.
GEOVIA Surpac™ Integrated Geology, Resource Modeling, Mine Planning and Production
GEOVIA Surpac™ is the world’s most popular geology and mine planning software, supporting open pit and underground operations and exploration projects in more than 120 countries. The software delivers efficiency and accuracy through ease-of-use, powerful 3D graphics and workflow automation that can be aligned to company-specific processes and data flows.
Surpac addresses all the requirements of geologists, surveyors, and mining engineers in the resource sector and is flexible enough to be suitable for every commodity, orebody and mining method. Its multilingual capabilities allow global companies to support a common solution across their operations.
BENEFITS :
Comprehensive tools include: drillhole data management, geological modeling, block modeling, geostatistics, mine design, mine planning, resource estimation, and more.
Increased efficiencies result within teams from better sharing of data, skills and project knowledge.
Tasks in Surpac can be automated for compliance with company-specific processes and data flows for increased time savings and consistency of execution.
Surpac is modular and easily customized to adapt to changing needs.
Surpac reduces data duplication and interfaces with common file formats from GIS, CAD and other systems.
Integrated production scheduling with GEOVIA MineSched™.
Multilingual support: English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and French.
GEMS
GEOVIA GEMS™ предоставляет объединенные горно-геологические возможности для совместной работы групп различной специализации, вовлеченных в разведку, моделирование, проектирование, долгосрочное и краткосрочное планирование горных работ.
GEOVIA GEMS™ provides collaborative geology and mine planning capabilities that support cross-functional teams involved in exploration, modeling, mine design, long-term planning, and production scheduling.
GEOVIA GEMS™
Integrated Geology, Resource Modeling, Mine Planning and Production
GEOVIA GEMS™ is the leader in collaborative geology and mine planning solutions. GEMS provides the capabilities for open pit and underground mining professionals in exploration, modeling, mine design, long-term planning and production scheduling.
With GEMS’ unique centralized database, geologists and engineers gain immediate access to organized, up-to-date geological and mine planning data, while the breakthrough block model conversion engine enables users to collaborate together using different software packages, providing direct conversion between different block model formats.
BENEFITS :
Central database manages data, enabling data security and auditability, while eliminating data redundancy and increasing data integrity and accuracy.
Streamlined data flows, central data access and increased compatibility improve collaboration, providing information when needed to speed decision-making.
System ease-of-use – robust dialog boxes guide users through workflows.
Industry-standard Microsoft technologies integrate with existing IT infrastructure and ensure system scalability.
PlotMaker feature allows users to annotate plots with text blocks, bitmaps, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and other objects.
Simplify the Tunnel Design process by rolling up multiple steps into one.
Minex
GEOVIA Minex™ предоставляет лучшие горно-геологические инструменты для угольных и других пластовых месторождений, обеспечивая точность оценки запасов и эффективность их отработки.
GEOVIA Minex™ provides the best geology and mine planning tools for coal and other stratified deposits, ensuring resources are evaluated accurately and mined efficiently.
GEOVIA Minex™
The Only Integrated, End-to-end Geology and Mine Planning Solution for Coal and other Stratified Deposits
GEOVIA MinexTM is the recognized world leader of integrated geology and mine planning solutions for coal and other stratified deposits.
Minex ensures resources are evaluated accurately and mined efficiently from exploration to rehabilitation. As a single integrated solution, data and skills can be readily moved between teams at significant time and cost savings. Across the world, mining companies turn to Minex to more accurately design, plan and implement mining strategies which drive additional efficiencies, increase productivity, control costs and increase profitability.
BENEFITS :
Save Time – Mine design made easier Make Better Decisions
Speed and accuracy over the entire process Improve Communication
Better interpretation of data with powerful visualisation tools and graphical displays Achieve Greater Accuracy
Tight integration with the stratigraphic model
Tactical Mine Planning
MineSched
GEOVIA MineSched™ - инструмент для долгосрочного и краткосрочного планирования для открытых карьеров и подземных рудников всех размеров и типов. Повышает производительность и качество планирования горных работ по сравнению с неавтоматизированным режимом.
GEOVIA MineSched™ is the most innovative scheduling software experience for mining puts you back in the driver’s seat to maximize productivity and profits.
GEOVIA MineSched™
Production Scheduler - Great Results with Proven Technology
The most innovative scheduling software experience for mining, GEOVIA MineSched™ puts you in the driver’s seat to maximize productivity and profits. Intuitive, rapid setup and guided workflows take the complexity out of scheduling, putting real decision-making power back in the hands of engineers and mining operations.
A stand-alone mine scheduling solution, MineSched offers the world’s most advanced scheduling user experience for surface and underground mines of all sizes and types. It incorporates a broad set of built-in functionality, proven scheduling algorithms, and multiple output results such as graphics and charts.
MineSched creates schedules that improve productivity and profits. The software is known for its broad set of capabilities, proven scheduling algorithms, and ability to output results in a wide variety of formats, including 2D and 3D graphics, worksheet-based reports, Gantt charts, and even in an interactive 3D viewer.
MineSched works seamlessly with GEOVIA Surpac™, GEOVIA GEMS™ and GEOVIA Minex™, and most other industry geology and mine planning software.
Now supporting 64-bit, the power of MineSched is unparalleled in the industry and will help you see better efficiencies in your scheduling and operations.
MineSched is employed by surface and underground mining operations of all types and sizes to produce long-term and short-term schedules, that will meet all of a mine's targets. MineSched can schedule from pre-created block, grid, and polygon models that originate from many different mine planning systems, including Surpac and GEMS.
BENEFITS :
Surface Mine Scheduling
Long-term Scheduling
Short-term Scheduling
Underground Mine Scheduling
STRATEGIC MINE PLANNING
Whittle
GEOVIA Whittle™ - всемирно признанное программное обеспечение для стратегического планирования горных работ, используемое для определения и оптимизации экономической эффективности проектов открытых горных работ.
GEOVIA Whittle™ is the world’s most trusted strategic mine planning software used to determine and optimize the economics of open pit mining projects.
GEOVIA Whittle™
Strategic Mine Planning - Optimize Mine Profits
When exploration and mining companies need to evaluate the financial viability and the optimal mine strategy for a deposit, they turn to the industry leading strategic mine planning solution – GEOVIA Whittle™. Companies depend on Whittle to help them determine their investment strategy and to deliver robust mine plans that maximize profitability by taking into account real mining constraints.
Whittle delivers trusted results and is used in scoping, feasibility, life-of-mine scheduling, and in the ongoing re-evaluation of mine plans throughout the production phase. Because pit optimization alone is not enough to unlock the full economic potential of your operation, Whittle provides mine optimization, which enables significant increases in project value over and above pit optimization. With its 64-bit platform, Whittle handles large data sets designed to optimize and run big models. To aid with these ever increase larger datasets, in addition to Lerchs-Grossmann, Whittle also includes the Pseudoflow algorithm which is renowned for the speed in which it generates pit shells, even for these large datasets.
BENEFITS :
Exploration
Understand the potential value of the deposit.
Target areas for future drilling.
Scoping
Establish the economic viability of the deposit and options for capital investment and development strategies.
Examine sensitivities and assign resources accordingly for future studies.
Pre-feasibility, Feasibility
Identify preferred development strategy, capital investment, expected NPV and optimal extraction sequence.
Calculate sensitivities to develop risk reduction strategy.
Ascertain final reserve statement for the deposit.
Bankable Feasibility
Study expected return on investment.
Analyze sensitivities and investment risk.
Consider multiple scenarios for reducing risk.
Production
Determine strategic direction for the mine; cut-off grade and optimized cut-off grade; mining areas and extraction sequence per period; and development strategies for new mines and push backs.
Re-evaluate mine plans in response to changing conditions.
Calculation of annual reserve statement.
BLOCK CAVING
PCBC
GEOVIA PCBC™ используется практически всеми крупными горнодобывающими компаниями, применяющими систему блокового обрушения, полагаясь на комплексную функциональность программы, помогающую при ТЭО, проектировании и управлении производством.
GEOVIA PCBC™ is used by virtually every major mining company involved in block caving who rely on its comprehensive functionality to assist with feasibility studies, design, and production management.
GEOVIA PCBC™
Power and flexibility for your block cave operation
PCBC is used by virtually every mining company involved in block caving who depend on it to improve profits through better mine plans, schedules and production management. PCBC clients realize substantial increases in deposit value through more accurate resource estimations and reports, while benefiting from better dilution management and geotechnical stability. PCBC has a proven track record for keeping production schedules current under the dynamically changing conditions at operating mines. With decisions based on a single source of data housed in a central database, PCBC users spend less time updating mine plans, evaluating scheduling options and running profitability scenarios.
BENEFITS :
Risk reduction for large capital projects by evaluation of multiple scenarios.
Better grade modeling and forecasting by using multiple material mixing options.
Complete integration from pre-feasibility modeling right through to daily production which is unmatched in the block cave industry.
Powerful production scheduling which can rapidly be updated and modified for real production statistics.
Provides powerful management reports for effective monitoring of dynamic situations.
MINE PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
InSite
GEOVIA InSite™ предоставляет горнодобывающему предприятию инструменты получения данных в режиме реального времени – данных, позволяющих повысить эффективность управлением производственным процессом от стадии добычи до стадии получения конечного продукта.
Increase the confidence in mining operations’ ability to meet production targets, manage costs, and improve efficiencies to meet stakeholders’ expectations.
GEOVIA InSite™
Increase confidence with Mine Production Management
GEOVIA InSite™ increases the confidence in mining operations’ ability to meet production targets, manage costs, and improve efficiencies to meet stakeholders’ expectations. It provides up-to-date information for improved visibility into production activities, enabling in-shift control and support of material reconciliation across the mining value chain.
InSite provides operations with real-time data analytics to support decisions and enables conformance to plan. Delivering auditable transactions and master data management, InSite centralizes Operational Technologies and gives you the information to drive the business excellence and agility required to thrive in fluctuating mining and market conditions.
Intuitive Navigation for Better Understanding
With an interactive graphical user interface, InSite’s fully customizable dashboard helps navigate the system through visualization to both see and understand all areas of variance across mining operational processes and activities.
See all operational information in one place
View key production data
Easily make operational decisions
Quickly understand and resolve operational problems
BENEFITS :
InSite presents mining operations with near real-time data analytics for decision support and enables conformance to plan. Delivering auditable transactions and master data management, InSite centralizes Operational Technologies and gives you the information to drive the business excellence and agility required to thrive in fluctuating mining and market conditions.
Enables a deeper understanding of the causes of variance through the ability to compare plans and actuals for any mining activity.
Allows you to quickly and easily visualize progress of all production activities.
Automates the centralization of data from multiple sources (IT and OT).
Enables fast and reliable data entry and validation which is fully auditable.
Gives high data confidence by providing accurate knowledge of stockpile contents.
Reduces variance in planned versus actual by balancing material mass and grade.
Increases understanding of equipment utilization, enabling better equipment time allocation and planning.
Eliminates inefficient use of resources by enabling the management and monitoring progress of tasks within a shift.
Improves cost control of all mine activities through more efficient allocation of costs to equipment, operators and consumables.
Produces scheduled and dashboard reports as well as ad-hoc reporting for easy analysis of production data.
Services
Centers of Excellence
When you don’t have the in-house expertise or time available, GEOVIA can assist you with your geology, engineering, and operations needs.
3DEXPERIENCE®
GEOVIA 3DEXPERIENCE
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform connects mining users with role-based applications on the cloud to run the GEOVIA applications our users know and love.