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BlastIQ™ Insights Release Notes - 2021

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BlastIQ™ Insights

2021

Updates to BlastIQ™ Insights released on 2021 bring in new features, improvements and bug fixes. For further information, please contact BlastIQ™ Support at support.blastiq.com.

 

December 

Update 23rd of December 2021

  New

  1. File Storage - Send Email. Read more here .

Update 22nd of December 2021

  New

  1. Site Map Tags filter. Read more here .

  Fixed

  1. Loading Weight dashboard map not colouring correctly.

Update 21st of December 2021

  New

  1. Multiple Blast Drilling Length Dashboard. Read more here .
    1. Available by selecting 2 or more blasts + right-click in Site Map.
    2. Three different comparison options.
    3. Secondary indicator for comments and wet holes.

Update 16th of December 2021

  New

  1. Drilling Length Dashboard. Read more here .
    1. Three different comparison options.
    2. Secondary indicator for comments and wet holes.

Note: The old Single Blast Drilling Length Dashboard can be found under "Length (classic)".

  Fixed

  1. Blast Powder Factor not being calculated correctly.

 

November 

Update 25th of November 2021

  New

  1. Site Map - Elevation Filter. Read More.

  Improved

  1. Blast Management - improved page loading speed when selecting a blast.

Update 16th of November 2021

  New

  1. Multiple blast Water Presence dashboard.
  2. Site Map: To learn more click here.
    1. Select multiple blast by clicking on the blast boundaries.
    2. selecting 2 or more blasts in sitemap + right click to navigate to multiple blast dashboards (Water Presence).
    3. Right click on blank space to select all or clear all options.
    4. Layer Manager - Turn On and Off polylines and Image layers in Site Map.
    5. Delete existing Polylines.
  3. Blast Management displays the user that deleted the blast.

  Improved

  1. Dashboards can now be opened in a new browser tab from the left side menu.

Update 12th of November 2021

  New

  1. Data Export - Holes .csv new column: Actual First Length.
    To learn more click here.

Update 8th of November 2021

  Fixed

  1. Design and Actual hole labels displaying in the centre of the dashboards map where no hole icon present.
  2. Progress Dashboard's Map background options missing.

Update 4th of November 2021

  New

  1. Site Map: To learn more click here.
    1. Site Map is now the default landing page.
    2. Image Overlay - Additional support for .avif & .png files.
    3. Navigation to other single blast pages and dashboards by right clicking on a blast boundary.single_blast_menu.jpg
  2. File Storage - Multiple files can be uploaded at the same time (only one file can be selected at a time).

  Improved

  1. Improved error handling when no Voronoi exists for hole condition dashboards.

  Fixed

  1. File Storage - Preview not working as expected but downloading the file.
  2. File Storage - Preview causing an error for read only access users.

October 

Update 25th of October 2021

  New

  1. Site Map:
    1. Date range filter based on Created Date.
    2. Option to visualize last 30, 60 or 90 blasts based on Create Date.
    3. Created date on mouse over information.
  2. Site Map DXF and Image overlays now display in the following dashboards:
    1. Water Presence.
    2. Temperature.
    3. Hole Status.
  3. Addition of Drilling totals to the Drilling Length Dashboard:
    1. Total design length = (sum of Design Length column)
    2. Total adj. design length = (sum of Adj. Design Length column)
    3. Total drill actual length = (sum of Drill Actual Length column)
    4. Total measured length = (sum of Measured Length column)
    5. Total length over design = (sum of positive Length Deviation column)
    6. Total length under design = (sum of negative Length Deviation column)
      1.  

  Improved

  1. Slight relocation of Hole ID Label buttons to avoid overlapping with hole icon legend.
  2. Hole icons in Progress Dashboard Hole Details now match other dashboards' icons.
  3. Deck list view improvements:
    1. Values not showing in italics anymore.
    2. Progress Dashboard - properly persisting deck list view when in Hole Details and Auto-refresh triggers.
    3. Progress Dashboard - multiblast view deck list view out overflowing now properly showing a scroll bar.
  4. Voronoi is generated for 1 hole plans in Site Map.

  Fixed

  1. Progress Dashboard - selecting a blast affects the top metrics permanently.
  2. Text change to the message when a user wants to navigate away from the File Storage page while uploading a file.
  3. Page titles in browser tabs to be in English only.

Update 18th of October 2021

  Improved

  1. Improvements to the Progress Dashboard screen adaptiveness.

  Fixed

  1. Drilling QA/QC Dashboards displaying actual drilled length and measured length in metres when Imperial is selected.

Update 14th of October 2021

  Improved

  1. File Storage now warns the user when leaving the screen during a file upload and asks for confirmation.

Update 6th of October 2021

  New

  1. Deck List View (Design, Adjusted Design, Actual) is now accessible from the maps on the following dashboards:
    1. Drilling Length
    2. Drilling XY Position
    3. Loading Weight
    4. Loading Weight %
    5. Loading Horizon
    6. Loading Top Stemming
    7. Quantities
      deck_list_view.jpg

  Improved

  1. Progress Dashboard screen adaptiveness. The dashboard's layout will change based on the detected screen size/resolution to best display its components.
  2. Improved dashboard loading performance by vectorizing the hover over text.

  Fixed

  1. Progress Dashboard - selecting a blast affects the top metrics permanently.

Update 5th of October 2021

  New

  1. Sites with FRAGTrack™ now can access the FRAGTrack™ portal through a link in BlastIQ™ Insights.

  Improved

  1. BlastIQ™ Insights now shows the title of the page you are looking at in the browser's tab.
  2. Underground sites won't display any open cut dashboards.

September 

Update 28th of September 2021

  New

  1. Hole Status Dashboard. To learn more click here.Hole_Status.jpg

Update 27th of September 2021

  New

  1. All single blast dashboards have a new limit of 5000 holes. 
  2. File Storage: To learn more click here.
    1. Comment on uploaded Blast Filesfile_comment.jpg
    2. View Site and Blast files.file_View.jpg
    3. Show number of complete mandatory documents.
  3. Site Map - ability to upload image overlays.

  Improved

  1. File Storage UI design & styling improvements to.

  Fixed

  1. Search in blast management ignoring "include fired" and "include deleted" checkboxes in certain scenarios.
  2. Download window hangs in fail state when downloading filename with non-ASCII characters.

Update 16th of September 2021

  New

  1. Water Presence dashboard. To learn more click here.
    Water_dashboard.jpg
  2. Temperature dashboard. To learn more click here.Temp_Dashboard.jpg
  3. Document description tooltip for defined documents.Defined_documents_description.jpg

  Improved

  1. New side icons and relocation of the Saved Reports section to the Dashboards menu.
  2. Increased File Storage limit to 100 site files and 100 files per blast. Including the limit for 50 defined blast documents.
  3. Always visible horizontal scroll bar in Quantities Over Time Data Table.
  4. UI adjustments for Tasks Remaining widget on Progress Dashboard.
  5. Site Map - Polylines to persist colours from DXF. Only for newly uploaded.

  Fixed

  1. More precise 'm' to 'ft' conversion, affecting hole coordinates.
  2. Populate Country in Blast Summary Report Header.

 

August 

  New

  1. Data Export - Download .csv files with all Holes, Decks and Measurements data for a selected blast directly from the blast list.
  2. Progress Dashboard Not Drilled and Abandoned holes:
    • New Metric: 'Viable holes' in top metrics. [Viable Holes = Total Holes - Not Drilled - Abandoned] 
    • Calculation Update: percentages of tasks completed based on viable holes.
  3. Blast Management, File Storage and Data export now share and persist users search criteria including:
    • Typed in characters.
    • include fired blasts checkbox.
    • include deleted blasts checkbox.

  Improved

  1. Quantities Over Time Dashboard:
    • Total Weight values in bold.
    • Column headers automatically scaled to fit many and long equipment names properly.
    • Horizontal scroll bar to access the complete data table.

  Fixed

  1. Blast Management - Tags selection not working properly with certain tag name formats.
  2. Decks 0 (holes requiring backfill) having issues in the Loading Dashboards maps.
  3. PDF reports page break.
  4. KPIs dashboard - Date Range filter changes resetting selected KPI.
  5. Progress dashboard - resetting Date Range filter after navigating back to multiple blast view.

July

Update 26th of July 2021

  New

  1. Site Map available for all users - Site Map has been developed mainly to allow users to detect and troubleshoot coordinates transformation issues in their BlastIQ sites.

  Improved

    1. Blast Management - Undeleting a Blast is only allowed up to 48hrs after the blast is Deleted.

 

Update 15th of July 2021

  New

    1. Date Range filter (maximum range of 90 days):

      • Progress Dashboard. Click here to learn more.
      • KPIs Dashboard. Click here to learn more.
      • Quantities Over Time - Loaded Bulk Dashboard. Click here to learn more.

Date_Range_Filter_GIF_LARGE.gif

      • Tags filter (under a new 'preferences' menu):

The filter behaviour is 'OR' when filtering with multiple tags within a category and 'AND' when filtering on selections between categories. Click here to learn more about Blast Tags.

        • Progress dashboard. Click here to learn more.
        • KPIs Dashboard. Click here to learn more.

Tags_Filter_GIF_LARGE_B.gif

 

      • Export .csv - Quantities Over Time Table

Quantities_Over_Time_Export_FINAL.jpg

 

      • Hole ID labels on MapsHole_ID_Labels_GIF_LARGE.gif

 

      • Packaged Products - Single Blast Quantities Dashboard Click here to learn more.

Total counts and weight for adjusted design and actual in the summary table, separate from Packaged products recorded as accessories at hole and blast levels.

packaged_products_FINAL.jpg

 

      • Counts of 'Not Drilled' and 'Abandoned' holes

Not Drilled and Abandoned (as a placeholder) in single blast QA/QC dashboards Summary Statistics.

Summary_statistics_FINAL.jpg

 

  Improved

    • Display 'Failed' for reports not completed after 15min. User are encouraged to create a new report.

Failed_Report.jpg

      • Other Improvements to Site Map for Admins.

  Fixed

    • Blast Name missing from Blast Summary Reports
    • Single Blast QA/QC dashboards - bar chart scaled incorrectly in some scenarios.
    • Top Stemming Length dashboard missing from Summary Report.
    • Progress Dashboard Bar Chart dislocated when blast names are numerical.

 

June 

  New

  1. KPIs Dashboard. Click here to learn more.
  2. Quantities Over Time - Loaded Bulk Dashboard. Click here to learn more.
  3. Design Initiation (detonators and boosters) in the Single Blast Quantities Dashboard. Click here to learn more.

  Improved

  1. XY Position Dashboard now rounds deviation to 3 decimal places.
  2. Increase on the file size limit from 500MB to 1.0GB
  3. Progress Dashboard - Screen size/browser zoom UI responsiveness.
  4. Single Blast Drilling dashboards - Add 'Drill Actual Length' and 'Measured Length' to data tables.

  Fixed

  1. Progress Dashboard - Tools missing in Hole Details Map.
  2. Progress Dashboard - Add Visual Cue Hole Details is Loading.
  3. Surface Connectors and Detonating Cord product types not displaying actual quantities in the Quantities Dashboard.
  4. Quantities Dashboard - Map always defaulting to Actual Hole.
  5. Quantities Dashboard - Hole Notes missing.

 

May 

Update 10th of May 2021

  Upgrade

    • Increase on the file size limit from 500MB to 1.0GB

Update 2nd of May 2021

  Upgrade

    • Progress Dashboard - Screen size/browser zoom UI responsiveness.
    • Single Blast Drilling dashboards - Add 'Drill Actual Length' and 'Measured Length' to data tables.

  Improved

    • Progress Dashboard - Tools missing in Hole Details Map.
    • Progress Dashboard - Add Visual Cue Hole Details is Loading.
    • Surface Connectors and Detonating Cord product types not displaying actual quantities in the Quantities Dashboard.
    • Quantities Dashboard - Map always defaulting to Actual Hole.
    • Quantities dashboard - Hole Notes missing.

 

April 

Update 15th of April 2021

  New

Hole Type Tolerances

The Drilling XY Position and Drilling Length dashboards use now hole type Collar XY, Over-Drill and Under-Drill tolerances defined in SHOTPlus™ or the BlastIQ™ external API. In case these tolerances are not defined (e.g. old blast plans), the dashboards will use the site's reporting tolerances defined in the admin portal; these will show in italics font in the data table.

Single Blast - Drilling Length Dashboard

Single Blast - Drilling XY Position Dashboard

  Improved

    • Removed Design Collar Z validation on Drilling Length Dashboard.
    • Addition of Colour Legend to Quantities Dashboard in Summary Report.
    • Removed 'fired' hole state for fired blasts in the Hole Details Heatmap in the Progress Dashboard to allow visualization of the latest hole state before the blast was fired.

  Fixed

    • Low Powder Factor showing the wrong colour in Single Blast Quantities Dashboard.
    • Hover Over information displaying the incorrect hole information in the Single Blast Quantities Dashboard.
    • Surface Connectors and Detonating Cord product types not displaying actual quantities in the Quantities Dashboard.

 

March 

Dashboards

This new version of BlastIQTM Insights will help detect problems, monitor performance and identify opportunities for improvement while managing the Drill & Blast operations, by providing visibility of the progress of the blast plans, execution of actual drill and blast processes versus the engineered design parameters and specified tolerances, and a means to centralize the Drill & Blast digital file storage.

Progress Dashboard

This dashboard has been built to allow users to control in near real-time the progress of the Drill and Blast process and objectively keep track of the tasks remaining to close a blast to help avoid any delays in planned blast schedules. To learn more, click here.

Single Blast QA/QC Dashboards

Featuring the following QA/QC dashboards, initially dedicated to a single blast view:

      • Drilling Length. To learn more, click here.
      • Drilling XY Position. To learn more, click here.
      • Loading Weight. To learn more, click here.
      • Loading Weight %. To learn more, click here.
      • Loading Horizon. To learn more, click here.
      • Top Stemming Length. To learn more, click here.

Single Blast Quantities Dashboard To learn more, click here.

      • Bulk, Initiation, and Accessories consumption.
      • Calculated Hole and Blast Volume and Powder Factor.
        • Design and Actual Powder Factor Heatmap.
      • Blast Tags. To learn more, click here.
      • Blast KPIs. To learn more, click here.

3D Design View

View the blast from different angles rotating it by click and dragging on the map, this view displays the design parameters of the blast holes.

Saved Reports To learn more, click here.

The main objective of these reports is to enable quick access and sharing of the state of the blast at any point in time. The new Saved Reports is a section where the user can access a list of reports that contain all of the dashboard views; these reports are generated by the user at a specific point in time and accessible in this section. The .pdf version is downloadable, and the HTML version is fully interactive.

Blast Management To learn more, click here.

This feature provides easy access to manage blasts: enter or edit blast Fire Date, Tags, KPIs and Blast Notes, as well as Delete or Un-delete a blast.

File Storage To learn more, click here.

This feature provides a centralized place to upload, store and download Site and Blast files to assist in managing the Drill and Blast processes.

Languages

BlastIQ™ Insights is fully supported in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French (Canada) and Russian.

Reporting Tolerances To learn more, click here.

The Drilling and Loading QA/QC Dashboards use Tolerances to evaluate if a hole is within or exceeding the respective tolerance. Users have the ability to set up the desired Reporting Tolerances for their sites using the Admin Portal.

 

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