Mining Simulation

Remaining efficient, productive and profitable is essential for all types of modern mining operation. Doing so requires innovation, both in making the most of existing resources and with the implementation of new technology.

Introducing innovation to existing operations, or integrating modern technologies into new projects, causes interruptions and delays, not doing so jeopardizes long-term productivity. Simulation models built with AnyLogic offer a way forward, providing mining output statistics and a dynamic view of operations for analysis, optimization, and experimentation, all without operational interruption.

From developing optimal excavation plans based on exploration data to delivering efficiency in processing, AnyLogic delivers the tools. Test what-if scenarios, evaluate mine operations over time, and conduct risk analysis. Throughout a mine, efficiencies can be found.

Modeling constraints on vehicle movement in and around a mine leads to refined routing and scheduling. Evaluating and forecasting equipment utilization allows lease and fleet configuration optimization. Mine phase scenarios can be tested, analyzed, and optimized. Visualizations for presentation and verification provide accessibility for all involved, giving you the power to drive innovation and boost productivity for the long term.

AnyLogic simulation modeling provides a detailed virtual environment for the analysis, testing, and optimization of mining activities. With the flexibility and power to capture operations, overall and in detail, you make informed decisions for your mining operation. Simulation modeling offers new insights and gives the freedom to experiment and innovate, without risking interference, to maximize the productivity of your mine, now and into the future.

Mining simulation case studies

Improving Mining Outbound Logistics with Agent-Based Simulation Modeling

One of the largest resource companies in the world, with over $80 billion in sales, decided to enter a new market. It was planning to build a new potash mine with 90% of the resources exported. They wanted to design a reliable supply chain, with a high speed of supply replenishing, and the ability to recover from natural disasters and man-made crises benefiting from such volatility. Amalgama and Goldratt companies contracted this project to design the potash mining operations and a full supply chain of outbound logistics.

Domain-specific Mining Simulation Software Tool for the World’s Second Largest Nickel Producer

Mid-term and operational planning in mining is an area where simulation has become a de-facto standard. Simulation copes well with the planning of mining operations: with its hundreds of interacting machines, overlapping maintenance activities, complex layouts of mine fields, and limited capacity of bunkers and conveyors.That is why the world’s leading mining companies frequently ask for integrated simulation-based tools, with user-friendly interfaces, to support their mid-term and day-to-day operations planning. This was the way the world’s 2^nd largest nickel producer followed.

Largest European Potash Producer Simulates Underground Mining Process with AnyLogic

Managers and engineers responsible for mining operations regularly face many difficult tasks. They have to make decisions and commitments while working in a complex mining system, where no component is isolated. With the help of Amalgama and one of the Big Four consulting firms, the largest European potash producer simulated the mining process using AnyLogic. A big potash mine is 8 x 8 km in size. 900 thousand tons are mined per month on three underground levels. The mine has 21 km of conveyor belts taking the ore through the system to the skip hoist.

These companies trust us

We use AnyLogic to understand better, improve and demonstrate how complex systems work. My personal favorite aspect of AnyLogic is the fact that it compiles the simulation models into a general purpose, fully object-oriented program language, like Java. Which allows us to embed optimization algorithms into simulations without writing unnecessary code.

Onur Dulgeroglu, Senior Analytics Engineer,
General Electric

I go back with AnyLogic to the very beginning: over ten years now. Ten years ago, AnyLogic was what I call the only industrial strength product that had a hope of doing both system dynamics, agent based, and discrete event in one package. As best as I can tell, it’s still the only package that has that capability. As we do more especially in the realm of agent based models, there are some open-source tools, but none of them has anything close to the functionality that AnyLogic does.

Dr. Mark Paich, Director,
PwC

AnyLogic was the clear choice after comprehensive evaluation of multiple systems and further prototyping in those that were shortlisted. Furthermore, it continues to impress the deeper we get. There's no doubt the right simulation and modelling tool was selected for the majority of our current and future needs.

Jay Ta'ala, Senior Modeller, Supply Chain Analytics,
BHP Billiton

We chose AnyLogic to tackle our large complex problem because of the multimethod models you can use, the mix of agent based, discrete event and system dynamics is a very useful combination. My favorite part of AnyLogic is all the dashboard features, the great charts and business intelligence you can get from the agents that are working in the model.

Kyle Johnson, Global Business Services, Advanced Analytics and Optimization,
IBM Global Business Services

AnyLogic has a nice object-oriented feature that allows you to create a component and reuse it, which is very useful to us, plus, the user interface has many built in charts. The most valuable feature of AnyLogic to me is to export a model, and let anyone run it on their computer without a software license.

Victor Chang, Software Engineer,
Intel

We use simulation tools, including AnyLogic, to analyze alternative capital investment solutions in order to help decide on the best investment decision. AnyLogic has helped with that decision process by providing our company with a tool that is flexible/adaptable to build models in different groups within our company using the team license server. We can easily use and combine multiple simulation methods to create the best modeling approach for each problem.

Jeremiah Dirnberger,
CSX Technology

I've used AnyLogic and a number of other simulation tools as part of hospital services design over many years. I prefer AnyLogic for its flexibility and multimodal capabilities and wholeheartedly recommend it.

Keith Stockman,
Monash Health

Anylogic is by far one of the most advanced software programs for simulation of complex systems. It can be applied efficiently in the modeling of highly complex systems in various spheres of contemporary economics and teaching, as well as in teaching MBA classes to top managers and corporate decision makers.

Dmitry Katalevsky, Ph.D. Economics, lecturer MBA/EMBA classes, Senior Manager,
Deloitte

Although I am still a new user of AnyLogic, I have been very impressed with its flexibility, ease of use, and the multimethod capabilities. AnyLogic’s versatility and standard libraries allow us to address a large number of different business process automation questions very quickly and with one software tool. I also believe the ability to customize ours models with Java code is invaluable when modeling the complex interactions in today’s real-world systems and operations.

Dr. Gregory Kott, Principal Research Scientist, PARC. a Xerox Company,
Xerox

I’ve been using AnyLogic for about three or four years now, and I found that it’s probably one of the better solutions out there for really being able to implement models if you don’t necessarily have a very extensive coding background to start with.

Joseph Simkins,
Battelle Memorial Institute

Mining Simulation

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