MineCycle™ Material Handling

Faster, More Competitive Bulk Material Handling Designs

Simon Smith (Application Engineer) Alain Beland (Product Manager)
© 2014 Bentley Systems, Incorporated
 Why - MineCycle™ Material Handling

• Unique and Intelligent Design solution developed

Specifically for the Bulk Material Handling Discipline

• Optimized for Conceptual Design phase

(FEL 1, FEL 2) - Prefeasibility - Bidding

• Option Engineering (Optioneering) made Easy

• A parametric conveyor design solution

• 3D model data exchange

• 2D Drawing and iModel generation

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 MineCycle™ Material Handling - Value

• Based on Tried and tested platform - MicroStation

• Purpose-built application for the Industry by the industry – Syndicate Development

• Specifically developed for Conceptual Planning

• Multi Disciplined Integrated models

• Intelligent Parametric Models

• Interoperability – On the fly data exchange with 3rd Party Analytical tools

• Increase capital projects efficiency

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 Who uses MineCycle™ Material Handling?
• User Profile
– Engineering, Procurement &
Construction
– Mining Owner Operators
– Mining Consultants
– General Practitioners

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 What MineCycle™ Material Handling planner can do

Terrain Model

Site Pads

Stockpiles

Equipment

Structures

Conveyors
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 Detail Terrain Model (DTM)

• Created from Drawn Elements

• Imported (ASCII), Point Cloud,

Geopak (.tin), OpenRoads
(.dtm)

• Display Options

• Updated, Manipulated and

Exported

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 Site Pads and Stockpiles

• Site Pads
– Position to optimize
Cut and Fill Volumes

• Stockpiles
– Linear
– Radial
– Conical or Point
– Assign Material
– Volume
– Tonnage

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 Transfer and Structural Components

Integrated & Parametric

– Transfer Stations
– Chutes
– Crushers
– Screens
– Bins
– Workshops / Buildings
– Trestles
– Take-up Stations

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 Conveyors

• Integrated Conveyor Models

(Covered Gantries, Belt,
Pulleys & Take ups)

• Parametric, Easy to Edit

• Relationship Links -
Continuity

• Containing Additional
Intelligence (Belt Speed,
Pulley diameter, Tonnage)

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 Conveyor Design Data

• 3rd Party Analytical Applications

(Sidewinder, Helix or Belt Stat)

• Data Exchange - Export and

Import – via Consensus for
Intelligent Interfacing

• Changes Tracked – Audits

• Manual updates - External

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 Material Data

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 Reports & Deliverables

• Bill of Materials

• Drawings – Dynamic Views

• Publish iModel

• Navigator

• Presentations

• Mobility

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 i-model Container for Information Exchange

Clash
Resolution

Dynamic
Review

Material
Estimating

Structural
Analysis

Schedule
Simulation

Precise Provenance Self-Describing Portable

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 Mobile Innovations

• Extending the reach of project data

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 In-Use Tour Demonstration
MineCycle™Material Handling V8i (SELECTseries 3)

Simon Smith (simon.smith@Bentley.com)

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 Summary – MineCycle™ Material Handling

• Based on Tried and tested platform - MicroStation

• Purpose-built application for the Industry by the industry

• Disciplined Integrated models

• Intelligent Parametric Models

• Interoperability – On the fly data exchange with 3rd Party Analytical tools

• Increase capital projects efficiency

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 Questions & Answers
MineCycle™ Material Handling
Faster, More Competitive BMH Designs
Simon Smith (simon.smith@Bentley.com)
Alain Beland (alain.beland@Bentley.com)

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