Open Pit Metals XPAC Solution (OPMS) is

a comprehensive, end-to-end mine

scheduling solution that delivers an
evolution in open pit scheduling.
Incorporating 45 years of domain experience in an off the shelf,
configurable solution, OPMS has changed the scheduling paradigm
forever with a script-free environment that puts the power back
into the hands of mine planners.

With OPMS, you will spend less time managing data and more
time using it to deliver value to your operation.
A New Approach to Scheduling

OPMS allows you to compare multiple scenarios with ease and

truly understand what your mine is capable of.
Process driven ensures the impact of any changes to the underlying geology or pit
A streamlined, process driven interface guides you through a design can be rapidly assessed.
standardised set of tasks and makes mastering the software easy.
Industry proven scheduling engine
Each action can easily be retraced and a repeatable process can be
Powered by the industry-proven XPAC scheduling engine, OPMS
used across the business.
is simple to use but uncompromised in sophistication. OPMS can
100% script free be tailored for complex mining environments to deliver robust and
OPMS is script-free scheduling software. With no need to learn practical schedules that add real value to your mine.
a scripting language, you can quickly pick up where a previous
Minimal training time
user left off without having to wade through lines of script to
OPMS can be implemented in days rather than weeks and new
understand the model
staff can quickly understand models and be productive.
Total data integration
Data is obtained directly from the source applications in its native
format and simply opened, modified and used in OPMS. This

XPAC Scheduling Core A New Approach to Scheduling

The industry leading scheduling engine is at the heart of OPMS. The
scheduling core isn’t just robust, it comes with 45 years of industry
experience and advanced mining rules built in.
It’s experience that only RPM can provide that makes OPMS the
engineer’s choice when it comes to scheduling.
For long term scheduling, large regular blocks make it fast and
efficient. For budget and shorter term schedules, more flexibility
is required and the use of irregular excavation shapes is more
common. To ensure the schedule reflects how the deposit will be
practically mined, OPMS supports any combination of regular and
irregular blocks with all the same benefits of the underlying XPAC
scheduling engine.

Reporting and Communication

OPMS has a powerful suite of reporting and analytical tools that

allow you to quickly and easily analyse, compare and communicate
scheduling outcomes.

• 
User configured dashboards to visualise key results and
parameters.

• 
Detailed schedule analytics with user configurable report
builder and interactive pivot tables.

• 
3D status plots which represent the deposit at any point during
the schedule.

• 
3D period progress plots that show when each block is
scheduled.

• 
3D animations to accurately visualise how the mine develops
over time.

• 
Stage Plans that can be exported as triangulated surfaces
to inform other applications of how far the mine will have
progressed at any point in time.

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Integration Solution

OPMS streamlines the entire mine scheduling process giving auditable and repeatable results for better
from geology to final report. This approach promotes project governance.
standardisation across teams, departments and sites,

Geology Haulage

OPMS allows for easy integration of the latest OPMS determines the destination for every block that is
geological data into the scheduling model. It uses the mined, ensuring haulage is at the core of the schedule -
mine’s block models and pit/pushback designs then not an afterthought.
automatically generates appropriately sized scheduling
• 
Optimise the selection of
blocks.
destinations automatically.
• 
Classify the deposit into as many materials
• 
Report truck requirements and the fuel
as needed, whilst avoiding dilution and
needed for any possible scenario.
grade smearing.
• 
Ensure the schedule does not exceed the
• 
Specify block sizes appropriate for the equipment
truck hours available for each period.
being used and the level of detail needed.
• 
Utilise back-dumping opportunities
• 
Incorporate designed excavation shapes where
more effectively.
additional practicality is required.

• 
Generate detailed 3D solids for every scheduling
block, ensuring design accuracy is maintained With OPMS’ haulage integration,
through to scheduling. schedules are achievable and practical
based on the resources available.
With OPMS’s geology integration,
keeping schedules up to date with
the latest geological information is
efficient and easy.

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Financials Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Ensuring that scheduling and financial modelling are
tightly coupled and working to the same goals is critical
to the success of any mining operation.
OPMS produces detailed and sophisticated schedules
that can now directly integrate with XERAS, RPM’s
industry leading financial modelling solution.
With the seamless transfer of information between the
two specialist applications you get speed, accuracy and
an incredible amount of detail in the data that is shared.
This allows planners to ensure that their plans are not
only achievable but financially viable.
RPM understands that an integrated planning
environment doesn’t just stop at operations. As more
and more companies focus on end-to-end productivity
across their enterprise, it’s important that planning
systems work directly with ERP systems to enable a
single source of the truth. OPMS links directly with
ERP systems (such as SAP) to provide the planning
information required to generate production planning
orders used across the enterprise.

Advanced Scheduling Optimisation

OPMS automatically manages the selection of

mining blocks and the most appropriate waste
dumping locations, while ensuring all rules and
constraints are honored. The Advanced Scheduling
Optimisation functionality uses linear and mixed
integer programming techniques to identify the
most appropriate way to process and stockpile
mined material.

Whether you aim to maximise revenue or satisfy

strict product and impurity specifications, Advanced
Scheduling Optimisation will ensure the most
appropriate, yet optimal scheduling outcomes.
This powerful optimisation ability is driven by the
material flow interface, with no need to learn
complex scripting.

Interactive Scheduling

When you want to get closer to the detail and take

more control over the intricacies of the extraction
schedule, interactive scheduling allows for just that.

Pick and choose which materials and equipment to

manually manipulate. Work with any subsection of
your plan - one large loader, one section of the pit or
a specific combination in the mine to create a very
precise schedule. While you get absorbed in the finer
details you can leave the selection of destinations
and the bulk of more tedious tasks to the Advanced
Destination Scheduler and Product Optimiser.

With the seamless transition between interactive

and automatic scheduling, OPMS delivers the
ultimate control.

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Material Flow Interface
OPMS has taken its script free approach one step further by
allowing you to define the flow of materials across your entire
operation in a simple, graphical interface. Unlike other material
flow interfaces, you are not just associating pits with dumps and
crushers. In OPMS, the flow chart establishes the underlying
constraints and mining rules that govern each type of material
being mined. It also extends beyond dumps, stockpiles and crushers
into processing facilities.

Whether it’s a screening plant that splits ore into streams, a

beneficiation plant that concentrates ore or a float plant used to
condition high contaminant ore, the Material Flow Interface makes
it easy to define these processing facilities and their impact on the
material they process.

About XPAC Solutions

RPMGlobal developed XPAC Solutions to open traditionally

complicated mine planning software to a larger and wider
audience of mine planners without compromising on power
and flexibility. Each XPAC Solution focuses on a specific business-
critical mine planning function.

Our XPAC Solutions guide users through best practice mine

planning by following in-built intelligence developed over
four decades of expertise and are purpose built to suit specific
commodity and mining method combinations.

XPAC Solutions provide users with a smaller learning curve allowing

for rapid upskilling of planning personnel while continuing to deliver
dependable, consistent mine plans. They reduce your project’s
reliance on niche technical skills, reduce the risks of human capital
shortfall and free up your senior planners from learning software.

Software Support

RPMGlobal’s international network gives our customers Access RPMGlobal’s comprehensive support service by
multiple support options across multiple time zones. Our skilled telephone or email, or get online and talk with our experts
professionals provide both technical software support and extended on the RPM forums. No matter where you are globally, no
implementation support, covering any model or customisation. matter how remote, we can help.

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About RPMGlobal

RPMGlobal is the world’s largest publicly listed independent group work in over 118 countries and our approach to the business
of mining technical experts, with history stretching back to 1968. We of mining is strongly grounded in economic principles.
have local expertise in all mining regions and are experienced across
We operate offices in 19 locations across 13 countries.
all commodities and mining methods.
For more information visit rpmglobal.com
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RUL), RPMGlobal is a global leader in the provision of advisory
consulting, technology and professional development solutions in
the mining industry. We have global expertise achieved through our

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