This course provides users with an overview of TALPAC, RungePincockMinarco’s Truck and Loader productivity analysis software.
Upon completion of this course, users will be proficient in navigating core TALPAC interfaces and in using TALPAC functionality to estimate and compare fleet productivity, evaluate alternative equipment sizes and configurations, assess haulage costs and generate user-defined reports.
Who should attend?
This course is recommended for mining professionals who want to become proficient in the use of TALPAC in evaluating haulage fleet productivity.
Participants typically include:
- Mine Planning Engineers
- Operations Engineers and Supervisors
- Equipment supplier personnel
Pre-requisite skills Participants should also have some exposure to truck and loader operations.
Learning outcomes
At the completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Estimate truck travel time for alternative haul routes
- Estimate fleet productivities for use in long and short term planning studies
- Compare productivities and determine the optimum loading technique, loading unit bucket size, truck capacity and number of passes
- Determine optimum fleet size
- Estimate load and haul costs per unit of production using discounted cash fl ow methods
- Estimate fuel usage and tyre duty
Course modules
Getting Started
- Creating a new project
- Program and project settings
- Data inputs and outputs
- Haulage system components - working with templates
The Material Type - Creating a material template - entering material characteristics and fill factors
The Shift Roster - Setting up a shift roster template - entering working and operating hours per shift for trucks and loaders, specifying a weekly shift pattern, allocating lost shifts and shift delays, calculating annual working hours for trucks and loaders
Selecting a Loader - Navigating the loader database and reviewing loader specifications - reviewing the selected loader template and selecting a bucket size, entering user-defined operational, costing and statistical data
Selecting a Truck - Navigating the truck database
- Reviewing truck specifications and rimpull/retard performance curves
- Reviewing the selected truck template
- Entering user-defined operational, costing and statistical data
- Varying truck fleet size and truck type
Setting up a Haul Cycle - Deriving a haul cycle from a case study and entering it into TALPAC
- Importing a haul cycle into TALPAC from a text file
- Entering rolling resistance, super-elevation and speed restriction data into a haul cycle
| | | Production Analysis
- Calculating fleet productivity and cost using a quick estimate or full simulation
- Calculating comparative productivities and load and haul costs as an aid to equipment selection
- Setting a production target
- Reviewing production, fuel and tyre usage and cost reports
Incremental Analysis - Generating an array of haul cycles by incrementing selected segments
- Reviewing and graphing production analysis results
Fleet Size Optimisation - Contrasting fleet productivity and cost to deduce optimum number of trucks allocated to loader
- Reporting marginal productivity and cost from each additional truck
TALPAC Options - Project options and customisation: re-setting global variables and default values in TALPAC
- Project Management: batch processing of a large number of production analyses
Calibrating TALPAC - Calibrating your TALPAC haulage model against actual fleet performance results
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Registration Forms
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