The objective of this curricular unit is to provide students with a body of knowledge in the domain of concepts, techniques and strategies that allow them to implement an Integrated Management of Mining Production Systems.

The mining industry has an imperative need to integrate two areas with distinctive characteristics in terms of the production cycle. One area, usually called “extraction” or “mining”, is characterized by discrete and sequential unit operations, the other area, commonly called “process” or “transformation”, has unit operations which are sequenced in production lines where product recirculation is usual.

This CU, the main result is that students do not only have an integrated notion of the mining production process but are also capable of coming up with integrated optimization solutions for the mining production process as a whole.

Introduction:
strategy, competitiveness, cost, sustainability, quality, time and flexibility.
Analysis of unit operations and mining processes.
Mining facilities.
Integrated planning and production costs.
Design and development of Key Performance Indicators

Lectures, presentation of case studies and resolution of practical exercises. Any questions raised by students will be answered as they come up.

75% attendance of all classes