- Release Date:
- 30th October 2024
- KBA Summary:
- This Knowledge Base Article describes the functionality of the Quantities Dashboard in BlastIQ™ Insights.
Summary
BlastIQ™ Insights Quantities Dashboard aims to provide a view of the consumption of explosives, blasted volume and powder factor, and recorded blast tags and KPIs.
To navigate to the Overview Dashboard:
- From the BlastIQ™ Insights toolbar, select Dashboards.
- From the Dashboards menu, select Quantities.
Blasts can be filtered using the following filters:
- Blast Name Search Filter:
- Type in the search box.
- Blasts shown are the ones containing the typed-in characters.
- Blast Status Filter:
- Select All, Fired or Not Fired.
- Date Range filter:
- Select Created or Fired Date.
- From and To fields are not mandatory.
- If the date range filter is not used, the blasts shown are the latest created/fired for the site.
- The maximum number of blasts shown is based on the Display Filter.
- Elevation filter:
- Choose a minimum and/or a maximum elevation.
- Select Collar or Grade.
- If an elevation filter is not used, the blasts show an elevation range.
- The maximum number of blasts shown is based on the Display Filter.
- Tags filter:
- Click on the Tags icon.
- Select the desired tags from each category.
- Click Apply to apply the filter criteria.
- It will return the blasts containing the selected tags based on the following logic:
- OR for tags within the same category.
- AND for tags across categories.
- Click on Clear and then Apply to clear all tags filters.
- Click on the X on the top right to close the tags filter; any edits to the filter criteria will be lost if not previously applied.
Read more about Tags here.
- Clear All filters - clears any filters that have been applied.
- Display selection:
- Choose 20, 30, 60, 90, 250, 500 blasts and Newest or Oldest blasts from the dropdown list.
- This dictates the limit of blasts that are shown from other filters criteria and whether these blasts are picked from oldest first or newest first.
The following information is shown on the Quantities Dashboard:
- Filter Bar.
- Blast Name Selector.
- Summary Tables.
- Bulk, Packaged and Powder Factor.
- Air and Stemming.
- Tags and KPIs. Only available when 1 blast is filtered or selected.
- Initiation and Accessories.
Comprehensive information is provided in each section.
- Filter Bar:
- Filtering by blasts using multiple criteria.
- For comprehensive details, please navigate to
the Filters section.
- Blast Name Selector:
- Type in the search field or select single or multiple blasts from the drop-down list.
- To remove selected blasts, click "x".
- Summary Tables:
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Bulk and Packaged
- Displaying the product type, if it's bulk and package, the product's name, the number of decks, items, weight, and corresponding totals for design, adjusted design, and actuals used.
- Displaying the blast volume and Powder Factor.
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Air and Stemming
- Display the product type, whether it's air or stemming, the product's name, the number of decks and volume with their corresponding totals for design, adjusted design, and actuals used.
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Tags and KPIs
- The Tags and KPIs tables are displayed only when a single blast is selected. The tables show only tag categories containing tags and KPIs with values, providing relevant and focused information for analysis. To learn more, click here.
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Initiation and Accessories
- Displaying the product type, whether booster or detonator, the name of the product, items with their corresponding totals for design, adjusted design, and actuals used. To learn more, click here.
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Bulk and Packaged
Hole Volume
Calculated based on a modified Voronoi Tessellation algorithm at the collar and grade of each hole.
Information: This is the same calculation methodology used in SHOTPlus™ Volume Overview (when the volume is not calculated based on design burden and spacing and does not include sub-drill). Modifying the settings in SHOTPlus™ Volume Overview does not affect the calculation in this BlastIQ™ Insights dashboard.
Blast Volume
Addition of all hole volume values.
Powder Factor
Considers only Bulk explosive weight to be divided by the corresponding volume, hole or blast.
Note: Actual Hole Volume, Blast Volume, and Powder Factor calculations require Actual XY Collar coordinates values.