- Release Date:
- 19th December 2024
- KBA Summary:
- This Knowledge Base Article describes the functionality of the Underground Drilling Quantities by Blast dashboard in BlastIQ™ Insights.
Summary
BlastIQ™ Insights Underground Drilling Quantities by Blast dashboard allows users to analyse drilling length data. This dashboard helps users understand drilling quantities performance trends across multiple blasts within a specified time frame and other filters. This analysis helps identify patterns, make informed decisions, and optimise drilling operations for increased efficiency and productivity.
Navigation
To navigate to the Drilling Quantities Dashboard:
- From the BlastIQ™ Insights toolbar, select Dashboards.
- Select Drilling Quantities.
Filters
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.
- Maximum number of blasts shown is based on the Display Filter.
- Elevation filter:
- Choose a minimum and a maximum elevation.
- Select Collar or Grade.
- If an elevation filter is not used, the blasts show an elevation range.
- 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 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.
Information
The following information is shown on the Underground Drilling Quantities Dashboard:
- Filter Bar.
- View.
- Summary View
- Table View
- Summary.
- Compliance cards/plots.
Detailed information on each section:
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Filter Bar
- Filtering by blasts using multiple criteria.
- For comprehensive details, please navigate to the Filters section.
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View
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Summary View
- Navigate to the view selector.
- Select "Summary View"
- Displays Drilling Length information.
- For comprehensive details, please check the - Compliance cards and plots.
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Table View
- Navigate toe the view selector.
- Select "Table View"
- Table view will be visible and show relevant data.
- User the search boxes to filter the data.
- Click on the column headers to sort.
- You can download by clicking the download button to initiate a CSV file download.
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Summary View
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Summary
- Total Number of Blasts that have been fired or created.
- Total Number of Holes.
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Compliance Card and Plot
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On the plots:
- Plot includes a line with markers and a trend line.
- Null compliance (where no holes have been evaluated) is represented in a separate data set, which won't affect the trend line.
- User can zoom in or out of a plot.
- Hovering over displays metric information.
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On the cards:
- Drilling Length
- Displays primary and secondary metrics.
- The chosen metrics will determine the information displayed in the card and plot. (including legend).
- Drilling Length
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On the plots:
Calculations
- Refer to the following links for detailed information on each calculation:
- Drilling Length Calculation here.