Operational breaks for lunch, change of shifts and
night meal in a day’s operation were modelled such
that trucks parked at a particular place after
dumping their material a few minutes to a break
time as practised by the mine. The trucks were then
batched and delayed for the break time to end
before they were released to be separated and sent
to their respective shovel stations within the
Arena® model.
A Batch module was used to batch all the trucks to
a particular parking station and then delayed to
make up the break time by a Process module. The
trucks were then separated into the respective truck
assignments by a Separate module before they
were sent to their respective shovel stations.