Mining and Processing

Customer experience

"In less than five weeks, we had to remove the dry screening equipment, demolish several floors of concrete, establish a lift well, install new structural steel, install three bucket elevators, several screens, and all the interconnecting drag conveyors and chutework. All this work had to take place…as scheduled…to avoid losses in the order of magnitude of millions of dollars per day in lost revenues for the owner. As the site engineer and owner's representative, I am of the opinion that without your software, the contractor would not have been able to complete the work on time." (view)

William Hughes
Site Engineer
Rocanville shutdown expansion
AMEC

CLEVOR helps mining and processing plants achieve huge savings

Mining, processing, and power plants have huge capital investments; it is vital that shutdowns for maintenance or expansion are managed well. They need to be as short as possible and undertake as much work as possible with limited resources. As the project progresses, the impact of any unforeseen changes must be minimized to reduce the risk of delays.

To get the best result, one can improve the resource productivity which would help with the problem of labour shortage, while the duration of the shut down can be minimized by executing the tasks in the correct sequence using the right resources. When something changes, its effect on the overall schedule must be assessed quickly and the schedule modified to minimize its impact.

We consider Clevor Schedule Optimizer to be a breakthrough in scheduling technologies due to its ability to model real life schedules and rapidly generate a lowest cost schedule that handles the issues of productivity, proper task sequence, and correct resource assignments.

Major features

• Works with multiple project management platforms: Microsoft Project, Primavera P3 and SureTrak.
• The schedule can be seen in all the forms available in the project management software being used.
• User can use all team collaboration and reporting tools available in the project management platform they use.
• Gives much better results than Critical Path Method.
• Respects all constraints.
• Totally automatic. No need to drag and drop.
• Dramatically improves the effectiveness of the human scheduler.
• Can optimize for any given business objective.
• Links the operating objective with the business objective directly.
• Very rapid scheduling engine.
• Realistic modelling of costs, such as resource costs, fixed costs, overhead costs, interest costs, moving costs, opportunity and lateness costs.
• Realistic modelling of resources, such as alternative resources and alternative capacities.
• Provides task wise cost information which is used by contractors to identify "best practices."

Testimonials

• PCS Rocanville is a large potash mine in Saskatchewan. View the testimonial of their shutdown expansion project (requires PDF reader).

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