Description
Aegis currently has two product levels:
Aegis Designer – a leading edge ring design package that allows a planner to create and refine entire stopes in a fast and effective manner. Designer lets you get the right patterns for your process, including slot design and placement, charging, priming, timing and more. With customizable reports and IREDES export, planners can now go from design to production faster than ever before.
Aegis Analyzer – the most advanced underground blast analysis program in the world. Analyzer contains all the features of designer as well as a state of the art analysis engine. See how making changes to a pattern effect the fragmentation, the tonnage, the cavity, the costs and the profit. Optimize ring patterns to maximize profit.
Focus on What Matters Most
Enhance Workflow
Improved workflow during the planning stage allows for an increase in production output.
Reduce Errors
Automatic drill placement module will never generate a pattern that cannot be drilled.
Lower Energy Consumption
By optimizing blast fragmentation, the electrical energy consumption from crushing operations is reduced.
Minimize Dilution
Match detonation and explosion state energies to maximize ore recovery and minimize dilution.
Fast & Repeatable Processes
Automated processes guided by user input parameters deliver consistent designs to site standards.
Decrease Carbon Emissions
Aegis has the potential to eliminate CO2 from the environment equivalent to removing 20 million autos from our roads annually.
Designer
Aegis Designer is a comprehensive ring design generation tool that allows planners to create and compare stope designs in seconds. With one unified platform, you can create tailored solutions for drill and blast designs, assign costs to processes, and associate predicted fragmentation with a blast.
Dynamic Ring Generation
Lay out your entire stope in seconds using user-defined drilling and blasting parameters.
- Model several blasts consisting of full or partial rings and slot decks
- Sequencing and timing can be generated automatically or edited manually
- Design and pre-sequence slot patterns for simple insertion into the ring pattern
- Use isosurface meshes to visualize the damage volume around a blast in 3D
- Visualize and compare different explosives within different patterns
- Easily compare relationships between drilling/explosive costs, dilution, transportation, mucking and milling costs for different fragmentation profiles
Visual & Intuitive Interface
Navigate quickly and easily with Designer’s modern and intuitive interface. Users spend less time learning the software and more time designing the blast.
- Visualize and understand the required blast volume in four simultaneous views – plan, section, longitudinal section, and 3D
- Simple click-and-drag interface allows for interactive graphical or numeric editing of hole and ring geometry
- Dockable window arrangement supports the use of multi-monitor displays
Block Model Integration
Designer integrates with a geological block model to enhance ring design with dynamic real-time slicing of the block model in multiple views. Planners can consider ore grade while they make design tweaks to rings superimposed on the block model.
Powerful Reporting Tools
Highly customizable report templates and IREDES export allow designs to get to production as seamlessly as possible.
- Generate professional and data-rich reports that can be reused on any number of patterns, blasts, or scenarios.
- Powerful template-based reporting with copy/paste support for the Microsoft Office suite.
Analyzer
Aegis Analyzer is a powerful analysis tool to help you get your blast design right the first time. Compare several approaches to the same problem using peer-reviewed analysis models with the click of a button. Analyzer provides planners the ability to see the effects of explosive and rock properties on underground ring blasting outcomes, effectively adapt to changing market conditions, and generate plans for several different ore grades.
Cavity Prediction
Predict the shape of future blasts by using a 3D scan of a cavity after the blast.
- Distill the complex 3D nature of blast cavities into a simple, easy-to-read match percentage value
- Comparison results are incorporated into Aegis’s highly customizable reports
Break Analyzer
The Break Analyzer matches the explosive detonation state and explosion state energies to maximize ore recovery and minimize dilution. The target fragmentation can be optimized and sized for haulage equipment, diminishing the reliance on expensive underground crushers.
The software has been specifically designed to enable a variety of ‘what-if’ scenarios to be tested and applied to complex ore-bodies. Finding the perfect ring layout for the highest recovery at the lowest cost has never been easier.
The Break Analyzer consists of the following important components:
- Unit Charge Model
- Thermodynamic or Heat model
- Stress Reflection Model
- Radial Break Model
Cost Analysis
The advanced costing module is modelled after spreadsheet-based pivot tables. The cost model approach allows the user to estimate the cost of a project using past knowledge and compare the difference in costs between scenarios.
- Explore the resulting costs that are calculated for a scenario through a comprehensive dashboard window and full set of reporting tools
- Store multiple models that explore different rules
- Store your quarterly costs or explore research costs