MineDash™ Underground Short Interval Control
Underground Short Interval Control
Know what is delayed. Know where equipment is needed next.
MineDash™ Underground Short Interval Control gives supervisors and dispatchers a real-time view of workplace development, schedule progress, and equipment needs. Identify the cycle activities holding work back, understand why delays occur, and adapt priorities to keep development moving toward planned mineral access.
For: Underground supervisors · Underground dispatchers · Development teams · Mine operations
Book a DemoThe operational problem
When workplaces share specialized equipment, a delay in mucking, ground support, or drilling can disrupt the development plan across several headings. Shift totals alone do not show which workplace is behind, why equipment is on standby, or which activity is causing the greatest loss. Supervisors and dispatchers need current workplace status and a meaningful time usage model to identify bottlenecks and decide where equipment should go next.
A delay at one workplace can leave specialized equipment waiting elsewhere. Connect workplace progress and time usage with the next dispatch decision.
Previous interval
Workplace progress, delays, standby, and performance loss across the development cycle.
MineDash™ Underground Short Interval Control
Check mucking, bolting, face cleaning, drilling, explosive loading, and blasting against the plan.
Next interval
Anticipate workplace readiness, ground-support needs, and where scoops, bolters, drills, and loaders are needed next.
3. Prioritize
Identify the workplace bottleneck and assess equipment swaps using current readiness and available health warnings.
4. Act and follow through
Adapt dispatch priorities, confirm the changes made, and check whether development delays are reduced.
Continue through the shift as conditions change.
Mining dashboard adaptation of the SIC principles described by Lean Production (Vorne).
Core capabilities
Real-time workplace development
Monitor mucking, bolting and ground support, face cleaning, drilling, explosive loading, and blasting against the site’s development sequence. See the current activity and remaining work at each workplace.
Development time usage model
Build a time usage model around underground development activities. Account for productive work, delays, standby, and performance loss so teams can distinguish where time went and which cycle components have the greatest impact.
Schedule and plan compliance
Set a development schedule and compare actual workplace progress with the plan. Understand how far work is behind, which activities are delayed, and the reasons affecting the next stage.
Workplace and ground-support bottlenecks
Identify workplaces constrained by specialized equipment, ground-support requirements, or incomplete preceding activities. Prioritize the issues that are restricting development across the operation.
Equipment priorities and workplace swaps
Review where scoops, bolters, drills, and loaders are needed next when the original plan stops working. Assess swaps between ready workplaces and adapt equipment priorities to minimize avoidable delays.
Equipment telemetry and OEM health information
Connect available equipment telemetry, warnings, and health reporting from major OEM systems with workplace activity. Bring captured data into the operating picture to support earlier intervention, subject to the site’s interfaces and integration scope.
How it works
Check workplace progress
Use everyday dashboard check-ins to compare activity, development progress, and equipment status with the schedule.
Identify the next bottleneck
Examine delays, standby, and performance loss. Look ahead at ground-support requirements and competing demands for specialized equipment.
Adapt priorities and follow through
Decide which workplace can proceed and where equipment should go next. Check which changes took place and assess their effect on development progress.
Connected through MineDash
Maintenance adds equipment availability and machine-health context where connected source data is available. Planning supports operational inputs and schedule assumptions, while Reporting links workplace results and time usage to historical trends. AIRL Technologies can scope OEM telemetry and health-data connections and train supervisors and dispatchers to use dashboard check-ins, adapt priorities, and follow through on corrective actions.
Practical outcomes
- Clearer visibility into workplace progress and schedule gaps
- Earlier recognition of development-cycle and ground-support bottlenecks
- Better coordination of specialized equipment between workplaces
- More focused action on delays, standby, and performance loss
Common questions
How does the time usage model support underground dispatch?
The model puts development activities, delays, standby, and performance loss into the context of each workplace. Supervisors and dispatchers can investigate the largest impacts and use workplace readiness to decide which equipment movements and priority changes will support the remaining plan.
Can MineDash connect to OEM equipment health systems?
Connections can be scoped to capture available telemetry, warnings, and health information from major OEM systems. Coverage depends on the equipment, accessible interfaces, and data available at the site. AIRL works with the site to define the connections and how that information supports operating decisions.
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