Material flow diagram

The Material Flow diagram allows you to visually define the flow of materials after the mining process has occurred.

Because all activity area volume must be mined in a Pit, any material that does not satisfy a material rule will be assigned the Default Material value.

The scenario will not run in XECUTE if the material flow has not been defined. If a problem exists in the material flow, the material flow element will appear red.

Material Flow nodes

Item	Description
	Pit - source of material to be mined.
	Dump - holds waste from mining site.
	Stockpile - holding area or warehouse.
	Staged Stockpile - stockpile with one or more configurable piles.
	Process - processing equipment. (Includes Sub-Process nodes).
	Product - the final outcome of the mining process.
	Group - control to create groups of nodes.

Material Flow control icons

Item	Description
	Delete - delete selected flowchart icons.
	Zoom control - alternative to Ctrl + mouse wheel.
	Calendar Override Overview - grid layout of override values for the staged stockpiles.
	Material Flow Filter - enables a material flow filter to highlight selected materials.

The image below displays an example of a material flow on a mine site.

Item	Description
1	The Pit - multiple pits are possible. The selected area within the block model and the source of the materials.
2	A Dump destination holds waste from mining site.
3	A Stockpile destination.
4	A Process destination.
5	A flowchart or movement arrow. These arrows identify the direction of the material movement.
6	A Product destination.

You can change the icon shape and colour.

Click on an icon in the Material Flow diagram and click the folder icon to the right of the icon's Name.
Click the Accent Colour drop-down list and select a new colour. Click the Reset icon to change the icons back to their default state.

Material Flow filter

Materials in the diagram can be highlighted to show their material movement arrows. Toggle the Filter icon in the lower left corner to display the list of materials. Select the check box for the materials you want to highlight.

The movement arrows are highlighted to depict the material configuration.

The highlight styles are shown in the example screenshot below. When the filter is enabled you can change the selected material's status on the arrows.

Click any enabled (bold) movement arrow to disable the selected filter materials for that movement arrow.

Click any disabled (not bold) movement arrow to enable the selected filter materials for that movement arrow.

The dimmed movement arrows do not contain the filtered materials and can not be selected or altered while in filter mode.

If you disable all materials for a movement arrow it will become invalid and change colour to red.

Item	Description
1	Material highlight toggle.
2	Materials to highlight.
3	Not all selected materials enabled, and CAN'T be.
4	All selected materials enabled.
5	Not all selected materials enabled, but CAN be.

Copying Nodes

Nodes within the Material flow can be copied and pasted.

Use Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to copy and paste.
Ctrl + left-click + drag will also copy nodes when the mouse button is released.
The copied node name will be appended (n).
All properties of the node will be copied (excluding node movement arrows).

Selecting Nodes

Nodes can be selected by mouse clicks or dragging.

Ctrl + right-click or Shift + right-click will select a node. The selected nodes will appear with a blue border.
Left click + drag will create a selection box.
The selection box has a right-click context menu to delete or group the nodes as shown below.

Grouping nodes

Nodes can be grouped by placing them into a grouping node. Once grouped, the child nodes share the inbound and outbound movement (arrow) properties of the group.

All nodes can be placed into groups except Pit, Product and Process nodes with sub-processes and Group nodes.

There are several ways to group nodes.

Add nodes to a group

Click the group icon and drag a new group into the material flow.
Create movements for the group.
Drag existing or new nodes into the group.

Create a group from existing nodes

Select one or more nodes. There are several ways to do this (multi-select nodes using Shift-right click, Ctrl-right click on the nodes or left-click and drag to create a selection box).
The selected nodes will appear with a blue border and bounded by a grey selection border
Right-click in the grey-bordered selection area to bring up a context menu.
Select Create group from selection to create the group node
This method will remove movements from the nodes when the group is created.

Group considerations

Group child nodes inherit movements of the group, and nodes within the group do not have movements to other nodes within the group. As far as PO is concerned each child node is treated as if it had movements of the group node.
Dragging an existing node into the group will remove the movements from that node and it will inherit the group movements.
Dragging a node out of a group will apply the group level movements to the node.

There is no undo feature in XECUTE Config, consider cloning the site before doing complex grouping edits.

Group controls

A group has name and background colour properties. Select the group to open the properties box

The group context menu includes an entry to Arrange group contents when more than one child node is present.