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BlastMCF is an adaptive blast design tool using search optimisation techniques inspired by natural selection to generate designs within specified engineering constraints.

Rather than developing and testing one option at a time, engineers can explore multiple scenarios against site constraints and objectives. Trade-offs across cost, powder factor, vibration, fragmentation and fly rock become visible earlier, while engineering judgement remains central to the final decision.

Cloud processing through the Maptek Compute Framework generates design solutions on demand. Preferred scenarios move into BlastLogic for detailed refinement, communication to operations, execution and reconciliation against measured outcomes.

Optimal blast performance

Optimal blast performance

Case Study

See how BlastMCF generates design scenarios around competing objectives while keeping engineers in control of constraints, trade-offs and final design decisions.

Adaptive blast design at scale

Blast design must balance geology, bench geometry, drilling parameters, explosives, timing, safety and downstream performance. Manually developing alternatives limits how many viable scenarios can be examined before a design must be issued.

BlastMCF generates multiple scenarios from a defined design space using polygons, surfaces and user-defined bounds. Site constraints are respected first, then solutions are evaluated against selected performance objectives.

Depending on the constraints, a run may return multiple viable options, a single compliant result, or the design with the smallest constraint violation when no option fully satisfies the defined limits. Engineers can understand trade-offs, apply operational knowledge and select the design that best balances the priorities of the bench and operation.

Outputs include drill pattern, per-hole charging and timing. Selected scenarios can be refined within BlastLogic, shared with operations and carried forward into execution and performance reconciliation.

Features

Adaptive scenario generation - Creates viable blast designs from defined inputs, constraints and objectives

Multi-objective comparison - Shows trade-offs across competing operational and performance outcomes

Constraint-led evaluation - Respects site and design limits before assessing preferred outcomes

Complete blast design outputs - Includes drill pattern, charging and timing

Design editing tools - Adjust layouts and refine drill patterns before execution

BlastLogic performance loop - Moves selected designs into detailed refinement, execution and reconciliation

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Benefits

Explore more possibilities - Assess more viable scenarios before committing a design

Make evidence-led decisions - Compare cost, powder factor, vibration, fragmentation and fly rock together

Keep control of design decisions - Apply site knowledge to refine results

Adapt to each bench - Apply a repeatable method without forcing the same design response everywhere

Reduce manual work - Spend less time building options and more time reviewing them

Connect design to outcome - Progress designs through BlastLogic and alternate downstream systems for operational refinement, execution and measured reconciliation