Application
Guarantee Results
Training helps users operate Optimal Scheduler correctly and efficiently. Ensuring users take full advantage of the advanced techniques and features Optimal Scheduler provides.
Training Services
Training pairs our specialised economic insights with our core motivation to invest in human capability. We offer a progression of training opportunities.
Prioritising Development
Why Training Is Required
Knowledge
Correct Framing
Training helps deconstruct misunderstood mine principles to properly realigns participants’ mine optimisation logic for realistic, complex mine problems.
Cross-Discipline
Broaden Benefits
A bi-product of developing professional skills & understanding include organic, cross-discipline knowledge sharing. Which improves internal communications, wider decision quality, and recognition of hidden opportunities.
Assurance
Anchor Long Term Productivity
Better planning judgement continues through everyday work over time.
Capability Progression
Identify the right service for your context
Foundation Training
Curriculum Overview
Foundation Training is our entry-level training for understanding strategic mine planning, where Optimal Scheduler sits within that workflow, and how to use an existing Optimal Scheduler model correctly and confidently.
Course Format
- 5 consecutive days
- Uses standard COMET data only, not mine-specific data
- Supported by a handbook or PDF reference
Teaching Style
- Hands-on format where the Trainer explains, demonstrates, and participants replicate the steps
Suitable For
- New users of Optimal Scheduler
- Professionals who provide data to Planners
- Professionals who interpret or act on Planners outputs, and need to understand the strategic modelling context
Advanced Training
Curriculum Overview
Advanced Training is our next-stage training for users already working in Optimal Scheduler who need deeper capability in complex modelling, custom functions, feature interaction, and specialised applications.
Course Format
- Ranges from 1 to 2 days
- Uses standard COMET data only, not mine-specific data
Teaching Style
- Hands-on format where the Trainer explains, demonstrates, and participants replicate the steps
Suitable For
- Mine planning engineers actively using Optimal Scheduler
- Users who have already completed Foundation Training or have equivalent operating experience
- Professionals who need access to more of Optimal Scheduler’s modelling range
Application Workshop
Curriculum Overview
Application Workshops shift to project-based sessions where advanced Optimal Scheduler capability is applied directly to the participants own mine data, own model, and own planning objectives.
Course Format
- Ranges from 1 to 2 weeks, depending on participant data readiness
- May recur in stages as assumptions, data quality, or model maturity change
- Uses participant’s data not COMET’s
Teaching Style
- Only one company present during training due to participant data use
- More hands-on, personalised to the participant project and capabilities
Suitable For
- Mine professionals already using Optimal Scheduler
- Teams wanting to apply advanced capability to a live mine project
- Teams who want stronger guidance than Advanced Training but still want to retain internal capability and ownership
Consulting
Curriculum Overview
Consulting is our most tailored service, where our expertise extends beyond training into direct project delivery, mentoring, model development, project problem-solving, and strategic guidance.
Course Format
- Can be in person or remote
- Can range from short support calls to weeks or months of involvement
- Entirely focused on guiding and developing client capabilities
Teaching Style
- Initial meaningful model-building effort may take roughly a month of consulting time for a sound first model
- Follow-up involvement may become periodic, light-touch, or maintenance-oriented
Suitable For
- Clients needing direct expert execution
- Clients with limited time or urgent planning needs
- Teams without enough trained internal capability
- Teams that want an expert to work alongside them more closely than training alone allows