Material Movement

There are three subtabs associated with the Material Movement objective.

Equipment Code

The Equipment Code tab is used to add distinct regions in the model to the setup. They usually represent stages or lithologies. Once they are added, production rates per code can be defined in the Equipment Code Digger Productivity subtab.

Equipment Code Digger Productivity

The Equipment Code Digger Productivity tab is used to define production rates per digger for each equipment code added to the setup in the Equipment Code tab.

Calendar

The Calendar > Material Movement tab is used to control the variance tolerance for each period of the schedule.

Evolution utilises the tolerance to control how hard the scheduler must work during each period to achieve the movement target.

A higher % number will generate a lower fitness, where as a lower % variance will result in the scheduler refining the result based on a higher fitness value.