Manage Mine Planning & Changes with HD
As the market leader for project planning and controls, HD for Mining has a robust set of tools to effectively manage cost and performance for surface and underground mine projects, including feasibility studies, construction, and reclamation.
Whether you are an owner/operator, engineer or contractor, HD for Mining delivers increased accuracy, control and visibility; equipped with powerful features that provide detailed cost estimating, performance tracking, and cross project reporting.
Mining Project Confidence
Heighten the success of mining projects with accurate cost estimating and forecasting. HD for Mining handles complex shift and overtime arrangements, multiple currencies, labor bonuses, time-based cost escalations, varying advance rates and productivity factors, extensive equipment modeling, flexible calculations for indirect cost, and much more.
- Maintain labor rate files that are specific to the area of work, with the ability to adjust resource rates for each project without impacting master rates.
- Model equipment rates in detail to automatically drive related costs such as mechanics, fuel, tires, and more.
- Pre-define crews and assemblies with advance rate/productivity factors, and use wage scales for automatic calculation of overtime costs and labor bonuses.
- Easily perform “what if” analysis and apply man-hour factors to adjust to project specific conditions.
- Embed existing Excel spreadsheets and dynamically link the values to the HD estimate to handle complex calculations for advance rates, indirect cost, and more.
- Automatically keep track of changes made to the estimate/budget with a full audit trail showing the impact of each change.
- Take advantage of hundreds of pre-defined report output options, or create your own reports.
InfoMine’s Equipment Cost Calculator integration within HD
Current subscribers to CostMine’s equipment database will be able to access the library with a username and password. One-click integration populates the work back into the HD environment.
The one-click integration creates an environment to centralize mining cost data. The combination enhances HD features designed to be a repository of estimated and actual data representing costs, production, and man-hours. “Providing critical data through commonly used technology platforms like Hard Dollar makes it simple for customers to access InfoMine data, adding another method to expedite the process of building accurate mining cost estimates,“ said Jennifer Leinart, President of InfoMine USA.
InfoMine integration benefits include:
- Direct integration with equipment resources from the CostMine and the Mine & Mill Equipment Cost Database into HD as resources and resource assemblies
- Faster and customizable currency creation for the unit cost items and resource cost components
- The option to select which of the capital and hourly operating cost components from the CostMine and the Mine & Mill Equipment Cost Database
- Provide the ability to map CostMine and the Mine & Mill Equipment Cost Database cost components to HD equipment cost categories
Reliable Progress Measurement
HD for Mining offers detailed and timely project status information to gain immediate insight into what was estimated and budgeted, versus actual project performance. Through flexible daily reports, the whole project perspective is clearly displayed, showing variances and forecast at completion.
Inefficiencies in production are easily corrected with HD for Mining because project information is in real-time, giving complete control over any factors that impact the overall project.
- View quantities and completion status for each scope item by specific time period.
- Automatically compare as-built vs. plan for critical factors such as man hours, costs, and production.
- Create precise foreman reports and cost-to-budget status reports daily and forecast production values in more than a dozen different formats.
- Customize views, save, print or send job tracking figures by using pre-defined sorting and filters.
- Collaborate and track project information simultaneously with the HD multiuser network across remote locations.
Clear Project Visibility
HD for Mining brings the project plan to life with real-time visibility of scope, cost and schedule throughout the complete work cycle.
Powerful integration with industry leading scheduling software, Oracle’s Primavera® and Microsoft® Project, establishes a live relationship between the detailed cost model, work plan and schedule. Each project contributor has increased visibility to consider all elements of the project to make confident work plan and scheduling decisions.
- Create cost and resource-loaded schedules in record time, synchronizing work plan, budget and schedule.
- Control updated activity IDs, descriptions, durations, completion dates, resources and costs.
- Automatically load scope items, estimated durations, resources and costs into the schedule.
- Slice and dice the project and create user-defined roll-ups to support internal and external reporting requirements.
- Build dashboards and graphs to provide detailed information on cash flow, earned values and resource utilization.
