New Release: idoba.plan Version 1.1
idoba.plan version 1.1 was released earlier this month. The new release includes major features such as Finance Calculations, Equipment Downtime, Custom Recovery Expressions and Results Visualisations.
Following the launch of version 1.0 in July, we've worked with customers to continue enhancing the product and have delivered several major improvements.
Finance Calculations
We’ve introduced Finance Calculations, which enables users to calculate costs and revenues within their value chain. The Net Smelter Return (i.e. total value chain profit) can now be calculated and used as the Optimisation objective. This means you can now optimise your scenarios by targeting maximum profit, making your decisions sensitive to financial value drivers.
Downtime Calculations
This new feature enables users to assign planned and unplanned downtimes to all components. Planned downtime includes scheduled maintenance, whereas unplanned downtime includes unintentional activities, i.e. emergent maintenance, short notice outages, breakdowns etc. This downtime follows a simple, generic Time Usage model to categorise downtime.
Users may enter planned downtime hours, unplanned downtime hours, standby hours and operating delay hours. These four inputs can then be used to calculate time usage metrics, such as total downtime hours, availability, utilisation and utilisation of availability.
Recovery Expressions
idoba.plan version 1.1 allows users to specify custom recovery equations for all analytes at each separation step. You can now calculate recovery using your sites’ unique custom recovery expressions.
This allows trade-offs between grade, recovery and throughput to be explored, as the idoba.plan optimiser will use your formulas to calculate recovery based on the selected feed grades, product grades and throughput.
New Results Visualisations
Scenario results can now be quickly explored using a series of pre-configured charts.
Users can dynamically build comparison charts, to compare any attributes within a scenario.
Users can also view aggregated summaries, such as product tonnages across the Scenario. Both visualisations can be used to compare results across two Scenarios.
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.