Improve Visibility of Material Flow Underground with idoba.sim
In this month's product updates, we're thrilled to announce exciting new features for idoba.sim that will significantly improve your operational efficiency and planning accuracy.
Improved Visibility of Material Flow and Stockpile Management with idoba.sim
This feature package introduces a suite of enhancements focused on stope drawdown, development mucking, and underground stockpile balances. These features are designed to improve visibility of material flow, leading to more reliable production and optimised equipment utilisation.
Improved Visibility of Material Flow
Enhanced visibility leads to higher equipment utilisation and lower operating costs through proactive, data-driven shift management.
The idoba.sim Material tracking module provides detailed shift-level reporting on simulated stope drawdown, development mucking, and underground stockpile performance. Users can view opening and closing balances for each stope and development heading, along with tonnes moved in and out of every underground stockpile relative to its design capacity.
With the new Material tracking module in idoba.sim, you can quickly see what stopes are empty and which ones have tonnes on the ground at shift end.
Automated Alerts for End of Shift Stockpile Utilisation
We’ve included Automated conditional formatting to highlight stockpiles that exceed 80% utilisation at the end of each shift, signalling potential bottlenecks for subsequent crews. This functionality empowers your planners and shift supervisors to identify production bottlenecks and prioritise rehandling, ensuring smooth material movement from drawpoints to the crusher.
Improved Material Flow Reliability
By highlighting stockpiles at risk of constraining production, idoba.sim helps maintain high equipment utilisation and shift productivity, maximising ore tonnes delivered to the mill while ensuring that priority development waste movement does not slow development advance rates. The enhanced visibility of stope and development balances supports better short-term decision-making, more accurate forecasting, and improved compliance to plan.
This capability also provides study teams with a defensible basis for validating production assumptions and quantifying the value of operational improvements before capital is committed.
We’re Always Listening
We continuously review and improve our software applications to ensure you get the best experience, so contact our team to share your feedback, request features, and troubleshoot issues.