Discover the Parametric Advantage of GEOVIA

The goal of strategic mine planning is to maximize the value to be realized from extracting a mineral resource. A strategic mine design is central to achieving that goal. To be successful, a strategic mine design depends on two things: gathering all available geological, geotechnical, mining, engineering, mineral price, and regulatory information, and creating a design that efficiently and economically accesses all mine production areas. Because it is a manual process, however, traditional CAD-based mine design can take so long to produce that the data used may already be out of date by the time it is finished.

The mine planner or mine design engineer must then build a whole new design to incorporate the latest knowledge — using up still more valuable time. Parametric mine design is the answer. GEOVIA solutions help you harness computational models to create the best design, automating and accelerating the design process.

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Harness Computational Models to Create the Best Design

Parametric design is the creation of a digital model based on a series of computer-generated rules or algorithms, known as parameters. Parametric mine design eliminates the majority of the manual work required by CAD-based design and allows the mine planner to create a multitude of potential paths or designs and a nearly infinite number of refinements to reflect changing data. All without losing previous design work.

When the design is ready for review, key stakeholders can then view and comment on the design, track the history of design decisions, and be assured that the final mine design will deliver on their goals.

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Automate and Accelerate the Design Process

GEOVIA's parametric design solution, based on Dassault Systèmes’ 3D EXPERIENCE platform, improves the efficiency of your mine designs by automating and accelerating the data consumption and mine design process and allowing mine designers and planners to:

generate consistent 3D mine-design models for underground and caving operations
incorporate critical design parameters to enable efficient and safe operations, and
complete comprehensive data interrogation and scenario analysis to test mining hypotheses.

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