Mine Facility Project
Executive Summary
This report considers the system engineering project ‘Designing of mine facility Project’. In this study, a different process for the development plus management of such processes for the mine facility project over project’s lifecycle is completely studied. In this report importance of FCL that is Feedback Control Loop and human factors related to preliminary as well as detailed designing of mine facility project is described. This study also highlights management procedures utilized for development, completion and removal of mine facility project. Few appropriate procedures mandatory in the mine facility project optimization, evaluation sustainability, and reliability testing are discussed.
Contents
Introduction 4
Needs Definition: Mine Facility Project 4
Schedule of Mine Facility Project 4
Conceptual Design of a Mine Facility Project 5
Mine Facility Project Development & Management life cycle 6
Exploration 7
Mine-facility Planning & Design 7
Construction 8
Production 9
Conclusion & Recovery 9
Feedback Control Loop (FCL) importance in System Engineering Project 9
Human Factors included in Mine Facility Project 10
Management Process for the expansion, execution & removal of Mine Facility Project 10
Optimization 11
Conclusion 11
Recommendations 11
References 13
Introduction
Mining operations require a precise type of knowledge with regards to scientific knowledge as well as the exceptional technological equipment or tools utilized. Mine engineers with an absolute clutch of computing and operational tools that affect the regular functions of a mine can give significant worth to the project. In designing phase of a mine facility project, all mining amenities have to assemble particularly demanding, security and communication, energy, as well as automation criteria. In this study, a simulated system engineering project which is a designing of a mine facility project is discussed.
Needs Definition: Mine Facility Project
In this study designing of an underground mine facility project is done which is utilized to extract metals as well as minerals from somewhere down in the Earth. During the time period when designing of an underground mine facility project, mine engineers design a big tunnel to acquire the unique minerals. This might be a vertical or a straight tunnel named as a tunnel or a shaft that spirals steadily downwards, named as a decline. To get the ore from decline or a shaft, mine engineers dig different tunnels (Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2011). In the designing procedures, mine engineers design a mine out the passage to present proper ventilation as well as emergency exits. All equipment, software & hardware and factors related to mine facility project are recognized and acknowledged in advance, therefore mine engineers design the project for maximum value along with safety.
Schedule of Mine Facility Project
Mine engineers work to decide whether the potential site for mine project can be securely operated or worked in an economically viable, environmentally sound, as well as socially responsible way. Expanded work activities take place during the design and development stage with more individuals on the argument conducting the study on the general, technical as well as business basics necessary to move ahead into construction. Regular fundamentals are distinct by activities or actions that need the contribution and efforts of numerous departments plus cross-functional synchronization, including mine facility project execution scheduling, capital cost assessments, organizational modeling as well as risk assessments (Castiglia, 2014). Specialized components, for example, resource administration, geography, and asset displaying, extend building and metallurgical process arranging are assessed keeping in mind the end goal to decide the mining as well as process prerequisites of a planned mine facility site. Mining operations are intricate. The start of any mine facility project starts with the conceptual design phase. It’s the where strategies, for example, geographical surface mapping and inspecting, Geophysical estimations and a geochemical investigation is regularly connected at a beginning period to stick out probable deposits.
Fig 1: Mine facility Planning
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Conceptual Design of a Mine Facility Project
During the conceptual design phase, the mine facility project is completely conceptualized relied on the necessities of project managers. Project managers surely appoint a distinct resource of contact or communication mode for the entire project with suitable authority. Project manager’s administration teams specifically choose an experienced and qualified mine engineers for the project. The subsequent activities generally take place successively during the conceptual design phase of mine facility project:
- Examination of the topography or geology of every area of intrigue or interest, additionally how they identify with possible mining operations.
Examination of raw materials assets of sufficient supply and value must be recognized by the preliminary geological survey (COIT21003 Systems Theory: Conceptual system design, 2017).
- A marketplace study to decide the processing limits and assist in the investigation of the financial feasibility of mine facility project.
The marketplace investigation will decide the dimension of the production plant that would be reasonably priced inside the region of influence (Yang, Sui and Duan, 2012).
- Permits have to be measured along with some restrictions that are probably based on limited policies.
This will shape the premise of the preparatory Environmental Impact Evaluation.
- Development of mining as well as processing plant ideas with equivalent CapEx, OpEx, in addition to Economic Analysis.
- Conceptual design stage must be executed taking into deliberation:
Plot Plan
Communications
Logistics
Flow Diagram of Blocks
Cost of mine facility project plant
Operating costs based totally on the project location
Risk Analysis
Preliminary schedule of a mine facility project
Mine Facility Project Development & Management life cycle
Development & Management of simulated project of mine facility over its project Life Cycle
Fig 2: Mine Life Cycle
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Exploration
The start of any mine facility project starts with exploration phase. Organizations enroll geologists as well as others to outlook remote zones looking for mineral stores. Strategies, for example, topographical surface mapping plus sampling, geophysical estimations and geochemical examination is regularly applied in the beginning to stick out possible deposits.
Mine-facility Planning & Design
Once mapping along with mineral source data is composed, and the outcomes are strong, mine facility project then moves ahead to the planning and design phase. This phase help mine engineers to determine whether the project is secure, environmentally sound, cost-effectively and socially responsible (COIT21003 Systems Theory: Overview of the engineering systems development process, 2017).
Fig 3: Designing and planning
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Construction
The construction phase starts after research, permitting as well as approvals processes are done. Construction life-cycle phase of mine facility project involves building roads, environmental management frameworks, employee housing processing facilities, and all other facilities.
Fig 3: Construction of Mine Project
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Production
General strategies of mining are underground mining and surface. The strategy is determined mostly by the uniqueness of all mineral deposit along with the restrictions imposed by technology, safety, economic and environmental concerns (Gane and Haymaker, 2012). The initial step in this phase is recovering all the minerals and next step is processing in which all recovered or improved minerals are simply processed through enormous crushers to divide commercially precious minerals from all their metals or ores.
Fig 3: Production site
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Conclusion & Recovery
The final phase in mine facility project operations is conclusion and recovery. Once a mine facility project has been depleted of reserves, a procedure of finishing the project occurs, disassembling all amenities on the land. The recovery phase is then executed and returning the property or land to the original state (Willson-Naranjo and Kanouse, 2014).
Feedback Control Loop (FCL) importance in System Engineering Project
Feedback control loop is of high importance as it allows project engineers to check the possibility of their ideal control on the entire project (Kumral, 2013). It helps to understand all disturbances and to measure those disturbances as well as adjusted them after fully understanding those disturbances which mean project engineers have a very accurate and complete model to get a feedback for the tasks implemented in the mine facility project.
Human Factors included in Mine Facility Project
Violations: It represents the disregard of well-defined or established regulations and principles for the mine facility project. Workers and engineers associated with project might create routine and exceptional violations. Therefore it is necessary to deploy a safe and secure new technology into mine facility workplace. Better designing, as well as an integration of all new technologies are achieved by guaranteeing that the project managers always concentrate more to fulfill operator needs plus their genuine demands (Mcgill, 2012).
Decision Errors: These errors represent wrong decisions taken by project engineer’s intentionally because of cultural differences, communication gap and all other human factors. Because of all these factors, designing plan of mine facility project proves inadequate and unsuitable for the environment.
Management Process for the expansion, execution & removal of Mine Facility Project
Managing complexity: The requirement for systems engineering mine facility emerged with the expansion in intricacy or complexity of frameworks and ventures, therefore exponentially expanding the likelihood of constituent friction, as well as consequently the inconsistency of the outline (Metzler, Marutzky and Juhlin, 2012). When talking in this specific situation, complexity fuses mine facility as well as the intelligent human association of information.
Risk assessments plus management: It has been executed in designing of mine facility project, which covers the assessment and management of long haul liabilities and dangers. Risk management plan includes basic principles, rules, and policies which are applied in all phases of designing of mine facility project to design an appropriate or an error free project (Petts and Eduljee, 2012). The designing plan is studied very carefully and all new or emerging technologies, as well as techniques used in the mine facility project, is effectively updated when essential.
Process Management: The mine facility designing plan or arrangement has been reviewed and developed in consultation with all communities or groups of interest. Practices, as well as processes, for instance, those which are described easily in the unique set of equipment or tools for group or community outreach, are theoretical to either community or group of interest interchanges and interactions (Monastersky, 2015).
Optimization
Requirements are always showing signs of change with the presentation or preface of new techniques and technologies on a proceeding and developmental premise, the life cycles of mine facility system engineering project is broadened, while in the meantime, the life cycles of all individual and particular technologies related to mine facility project are getting shorter and system engineering project which is mine facility is viewed in regards of interoperability necessities and inside SOS context which is also known as System of Systems setting. Project engineers should completely evaluate the reliability and sustainability of all items such as raw materials, must be tested through different tests with a specific end goal to empower them to complete work in any condition and to boost their valuable life (O’Hara, 2014). For this, Project engineers must set up and works as a biggest unwavering quality & assessment as well as evaluation & reliability center, lab to test the dependability of items through the advancement of assessment technologies and the incorporation and specialization of functions and elements of tests and assessments so as to secure world-class quality (Whitehead and Neal, 2015). Depending on numerous times of ability and propelled dependability testing process, extend builds flawlessly test the administration life of every single equipment used for the mine facility project, software, and hardware used within the project before rolling out all such hardware and software.
Conclusion
This study concludes that to guarantee protected and production start-up of a mine facility project, project manager groups incorporate the mine engineers who were associated with the mine facility plan and are accordingly most comfortable with the whole project. This workforce incorporates in-house, experienced authorizing supervisors, mining engineers, electrical, instrumentation, as well as control specialists, metallurgists, and planning directors. It has been concluded that mine engineers must focus to concentrate more on emerging technologies and procedures and then additionally apply these techniques to its all operations plus to planning as well as an implementation of mine facility project.
Recommendations
In this exceptionally competitive asset-constrained or compelled environment, it is presently more essential to guarantee that the standards and ideas of framework designing or system engineering are legitimately executed. For the designing of mine facility project, necessities ought to be very much characterized from the earliest starting point. The designing of mine facility project should be viewed as far as the majority of its mechanisms on a completely incorporated premise to incorporate prime equipment, programming, working faculty, facilities, related information and data, its related distribution and production process, and the components of support and maintenance. PC based models have turned out to be progressively robust and valuable for mine facility project (Roach, 2013). A best or a top-down coordinated approach must complement a center outlook, with the proper allotment of necessities from the framework or system level and likewise down to its different components. The framework for designing of mine facility project should be addressed inside a larger amount arrangement of frameworks setting and considering pertinent interoperability prerequisites. Further, the mine facility project should be viewed in regards to its whole life cycle that is, from reasonable or conceptual through the preparatory and definite outline, production or development, framework usage, support and maintenance, material reusing and system retirement or disposal (Sharma and Marais, 2013).
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