Production Planning
- An overview of design methods for final limits of open pit and underground mines
- Preliminary definitions of production planning
- A review of operations research techniques with an emphasis on modeling approaches
- Linear programming method
- Integer programming method
- Zero-one programming method
- Network optimization models
- Project management with GERT/PERT/CPM
- Dynamic programming method
- Definition of short-term, medium-term and long-term production planning and its role in mining economy
- Definition of pushback, its role in long-term mine production planning
- Algorithms for long-term production planning including Lerchs-Grossmanns nested pits algorithm, Gershons algorithm
- Algorithms for long-term production planning, including Wang & Sevim algorithm and Dimitrakopoulos-Ramazan algorithm
- Mathematical algorithms for long-term production planning including
Johnson Algorithm (Linear Programming)
Gershons algorithm (Mixed integer programming)
Dagdelen-Johnson algorithm
- Mathematical methods for determining the processing-plant cut-off grade (Lane algorithm and linear programming)
- Simultaneously solving the problem of determining cut-off grade and long-term production planning
- The role of uncertainty in long-term production planning and its effect on modeling
- Modeling short-term and mid-term planning in mines
- Application of artificial intelligence, heuristic and meta-heuristic methods in production planning
- Introducing and working with production planning software