The Numbers You Take to the Leadership Team
Deserve More Than Rate-based Assumptions.
idoba.sim stress-tests your weekly schedules against your mine network and fleet. It runs every truck, loader, and jumbo as a separate agent across all 14 shifts. The output is a P10/P50/P90 distribution your planning team can work with. Not a single number built on assumptions that hold only if everything goes right.
Winner, 2025 Mining Technology Excellence Award.
The Target is Clear. The Schedule Needs to Hold.
Rate-based planning tools give you a single number built on broad assumptions. idoba.sim stress-tests your weekly schedule against your mine network and fleet, running every truck, loader and jumbo as a separate agent across all 14 shifts. The output is a P10/P50/P90 distribution your planning team can work with. A realistic range, not a number that only holds if everything goes right.
A Production Number You Can Stand Behind.
Weekly schedules are often built on rate-based assumptions. Truck cycle times, loader availability, development advance rates. All modelled as if conditions hold consistently across all shifts. idoba.sim runs 25 statistically varied simulations of your weekly schedules and returns a P10/P50/P90 distribution of outcomes. Before you take a number to your leadership team, you know whether it is achievable under realistic operating conditions.
Capital Decisions Pressure Tested.
Fleet purchases, development commitments, and access sequencing are routinely built from rate-based assumptions. idoba.sim adds a credible range alongside that number: P10, P50, and P90 outcomes modelled against your mine network and fleet configuration. Not industry averages. Not assumptions from a consultant. A risk profile your planning team can work with, and you can put in front of your leadership team with confidence.
Re-plan Fast. Recover Before it Costs You Ore.
Underground conditions change. A ground support delay at one heading. An equipment breakdown that reshuffles the sequence. When that happens, the consequences ripple through fleet interactions and access timing in ways traditional planning tools often miss. idoba.sim lets your planning team re-run the revised schedule against your mine network and fleet. Before crews go underground.
SIMULATION USE CASE
Benefits of a Dedicated Stockpile.
Adding a stockpile changes how every truck, loader, and shift sequence interacts underground. The question isn't whether a stockpile helps in theory. It is whether it helps enough in your mine.
In a recent study, idoba.sim was used to model the impact of a dedicated stockpile in an underground hard rock operation, examining total material moved, ore tonnes delivered to surface, truck productivity, and shift transition performance across the P10/P50/P90 range.
The simulation showed how stockpile placement affects load-and-haul interactions, shift changeover efficiency, and overall ore delivery, giving the planning team the evidence to make the capital case before committing.
12%
Increased Primary Ore Throughput.
39%
Increased Loader Utilisation.
Plan with Confidence. Back Every Decision with Simulation Data.
idoba.sim gives your planning team the evidence to answer questions before they become problems underground. Whether the production forecast will hold under realistic conditions. Whether the fleet configuration will deliver the target or create congestion. Whether the revised schedule still meets your targets. No simulation experience required.
RELIABLE SCHEDULES FOR LEADERSHIP.
Production Commitments You Can Stand Behind.
When your leadership team asks whether the operation will achieve targets, the honest answer depends on assumptions that are difficult to surface in a rate-based schedule: fleet interactions, access conflicts, shift change effects, and development against production sequencing.
idoba.sim gives your planning team the evidence to answer that question before the meeting. A P10/P50/P90 distribution modelled against your mine network and fleet configuration. A realistic outcome range the team can work through, and that you can take into the leadership conversation with confidence.
CAPITAL DECISION CONFIDENCE
Know if Expanding the Fleet Improves Throughput.
idoba.sim models fleet interactions, congestion, queueing, delays, and equipment dependencies across your mine network. Detailed utilisation reporting across the entire fleet shows exactly where equipment is working, where it is waiting, and where adding fleet creates problems rather than solving them. Run the current configuration and the proposed one side by side, across up to 14 shifts, and see the P10/P50/P90 outcome range for both.
Take the case to your leadership team with evidence from simulation, not a rate-based calculation.
SCHEDULE RESILIENCE
Your Commitment to the Leadership Team Doesn't Change When the Schedule Does.
A ground support delay at one heading. An equipment breakdown that reshuffles the sequence. Underground conditions change, and when they do, the consequences ripple through fleet interactions, access timing, and activity sequencing in ways rate-based tools often cannot track.
The question isn't whether to replan. It's whether the revised schedule still meets the number you committed to. idoba.sim lets your planning team re-run the revised schedule against your mine network and fleet. See whether the new heading sequence still delivers the weekly target. Go back to your leadership team with a revised position backed by evidence, not another estimate built on rate-based tools and assumptions.
Simulation Software Built for Underground Mining.
idoba.sim is built and backed by Perenti, with over 35 years of operational hard rock mining experience across Australian and global operations. The model reflects how underground mines behave, because it was built by people who ran them.
Cloud-based. No Complicated Infrastructure to Manage.
idoba.sim is cloud-delivered. Your team accesses it through a browser. No servers to provision, no software to install or maintain.
Built for Mine Planners and Schedulers.
If you can describe your fleet, your haulage network, and your weekly schedule, you can run a scenario. No simulation experience is required.
From Question to Answer in Hours, Not a Planning Cycle.
When your planning team uses idoba.sim, the turnaround from question to answer is hours, not weeks waiting on an external engagement.
Ready to See What idoba.sim Can Achieve for Your Operation?
Our team will show you the results idoba.sim produces for a mine like yours. The kind of evidence your planning team can work with, and you can take to the leadership team.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Underground operations typically run a stack rather than one tool. What's been missing is the layer between the schedule and execution. A way for planning teams to test whether the plan holds up against the way the operation actually behaves underground. Operational simulation software like idoba.sim lets them stress-test the weekly schedule against the mine network and fleet, so the numbers you put in front of Leadership team are grounded in a realistic range rather than rate-based assumptions.
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Capital cases for additional loaders, trucks, or fleet reconfiguration usually rest on rate-based assumptions and historical reconciliation. Operational simulation lets you run the current and proposed configuration side by side across the actual mine network, with realistic equipment interactions, and compare the P10/P50/P90 outcome range for each. The result is a capital decision your Leadership team can move on with confidence.
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The risk in short-term planning is rarely the schedule itself, it's the gap between the schedule and what the operation can execute once fleet interactions, access conflicts, and sequencing constraints play out. Most operations close that gap reactively, finding out at month-end. The alternative is to surface those risks before the schedule is committed. idoba.sim runs 25 statistically varied simulations of the weekly schedule across the mine network and fleet, and returns a P10/P50/P90 distribution of outcomes. Planning teams use it to test whether the plan is achievable under realistic conditions, General Managers use it to take credible numbers into the Leadership conversation, and the operation reduces the cost of finding out too late.