Dispatch Region
A mine site may be divided into separate geographical areas or regions. For example, the material mined in particular areas may need to be stockpiled separately; the geology on each level requires that particular capacity trucks be used, or site infrastructure automatically lends itself to separate regions. A truck servicing a loader which is located in a particular dispatch region can only travel within that region. If dispatch regions are not defined, all locations are available to a truck.
The Dispatch system takes into account the Dispatch region of a loader when allocating the next available truck.
Dispatch regions are defined in Reference Edit. They may consist of a number of mine areas; a mine area can be unique to a dispatch region or it may be included in one or more regions. If dispatch regions are not defined, trucks are not restricted by location.
For example:
In the example above:
- Dispatch region Ore = Mine area LocAB and LocCD. Trucks servicing loaders within those mine area would be restricted to those mine areas.
- Dispatch region HighOre = Mine area Loc123 and Loc4. Trucks working in the dispatch region HighOre would be restricted to these mine area.