Technological advancements are often best tackled by starting with a clean sheet of paper which is exactly what ORElogy did back in 2007.

ORElogy is a specialist mine planning consultancy with extensive Australian and International experience in the mine planning and reserve management.
ORElogy adopts a partnership approach with clients to develop practical solutions to ensure the delivery of key client outcomes. Innovative thinking is also one of the company's core values and the desire to improve the mine planning process has driven the company to develop evORElution.

"evORElution is a new Open Pit Mine Scheduling Solution that efficiently delivers mine planners with a range of optimised scheduling scenarios to analyse and consider. The demonstrated benefits of evORElution are significantly increasing project value and improved engineering analysis & productivity." Says ORElogy's Managing Director, Steve Craig

Most existing techniques cannot (1) efficiently deal with large multi-model datasets (2) perform multi-objective optimisation in the true sense and (3) produce multiple solutions as part of a single optimisation run, however evORElution has been designed from the ground up to achieve this.

evORElution uses advanced mathematical concepts (evolutionary algorithms) to efficiently produce multiple valid schedules within a single simulation run. Evolutionary Algorithms are ideally suited to solving mine scheduling optimisation problems as distinct from classical methods as they:

• develop a population of schedules which improve towards an optimal solution with each generation
• efficiently deal with large datasets, complex constraints and multiple objectives.
• deliver the ability to work across the Mine Scheduling Lifecycle (i.e. short, medium and long term) using the same dataset

"We allowing the user to spend more time evaluating schedules and provide planning visibility, rather than working to produce a single schedule." said Mr Craig