LuminFlow

The platform

What is LuminFlow?

LuminFlow is a geospatial scenario simulation tool for asset-heavy operations. Draw a real site on a 3D globe: its boundaries, loading points, weighbridges, stockpiles, plants and the roads between them. Describe the vehicle cycles and the fleet that works them. Then simulate a full day of operations, second by second.

The output is animated playback on the globe plus a deep set of throughput, utilisation, queueing, cost, emissions and material-flow metrics. It sits between a digital twin, a GIS system and a discrete-event simulation package, and its purpose is decision support: test operational decisions before capital is committed.

Decision support

The questions it answers

How many trucks, machines or crews does this operation need?
What happens if a haul route changes, or a node moves?
What happens if equipment is added, removed or upgraded?
Where is the bottleneck: the fleet, the roads, the weighbridge, or the plant?
What throughput can the system realistically achieve?
Will queues, traffic conflicts or stockpile overflows cause problems?

01 · Model

Draw the operation, don't code a model

A usable model takes an hour, not a fortnight. Sites, nodes and roads are drawn straight onto the globe, and everything else is configured in place: materials, trucks, loaders and the haulage plans that connect them.

  • Sites with operating hours, speed limits and goals; nodes for loading, unloading, weighbridges, stockpiles and processing plants.
  • Materials with bulk density, moisture and value per tonne; stockpiles render as true material volume blocks.
  • A truck library with dimensions, payload, speeds, energy and cost, plus loaders and hired fleet.
  • Road networks imported from HERE or drawn by hand, at regional scale down to individual lanes.
A site drawn in 3D with stockpile volume blocks and animated plant equipment
The material library with handling, density and value fields
Materials: density, moisture, handling and value
Truck editor with dimensions, payload and turning circle
Fleet definitions: dimensions, payload, cost and energy
Regional map showing all sites and routes of an operation
The whole operation at regional scale

02 · Simulate

A full day of operations, second by second

The simulator runs every truck through its cycles for a whole day: loading, hauling, queueing, weighing, unloading. Playback is animated on the globe, over real terrain and photorealistic 3D, and every vehicle and node can be inspected live.

  • Deterministic playback with traffic lights, congestion, queues and give-way behaviour.
  • Follow a single truck: its current step, speed, load, cost to date and full cycle timetable.
  • Open any node during playback: lanes, service times, peak queues and arrival logs.
  • Real street networks and Google photorealistic 3D tiles put the operation in its actual surroundings.
Trucks driving a real street network on photorealistic 3D tiles
A quarry pit on aerial imagery with haul routes on the terrain
Haul routes draped over real terrain
A truck inspected during playback with live status and timetable
Per-truck telemetry during playback
An unloading bay with queue statistics and arrival timetable
Queues and service at every node

03 · Understand

Reports that say what binds, and what it is worth

Every run produces a portfolio overview, per-site and per-route health reports, live plant telemetry and a mass balance that identifies the constraint on every material chain, then prices every lever in tonnes per day.

  • Operation overview: throughput, cost per tonne, emissions, goals met, truck visits and load utilisation.
  • Site and route health: composition, recommendations, cycle breakdowns and where time is lost.
  • Mass balance: whichever of supply, transport and demand is smallest is what actually moves.
  • Every improvement option priced in tonnes per day, including the ones that buy nothing and why.
Portfolio overview report with KPIs, goals and hourly throughput
Mass balance report showing supply, transport and demand per material
What limits each material
Ranked list of improvement levers priced in tonnes per day
What to do about it, priced in tonnes per day
Route health analysis with leg-by-leg cycle diagram
Route health: cycle time, leg by leg
Site health report with goals, recommendations, cost and emissions
Site health: goals, cost and recommendations
Processing plant telemetry with running, starved and blocked time
Plant telemetry: running, starved, blocked, idle

04 · Plan

From one day to a quarter, and beyond

Characterise the kinds of day the operation has, set the rota that decides which day is which, and compose them into a horizon. Headline figures annualise from days the simulator actually ran, so every number traces back to a simulated day.

  • Day types carry their own hours, plant recipes and fleet sizes; layers add ship loading and campaigns on top.
  • A fixed calendar or stockpile rules decide the day; exceptions handle holidays and shutdowns.
  • The resolved calendar shows every day of the horizon with derated and provisional days flagged.
  • Stockpile trajectories across the whole horizon show the cycle and its cadence.
A quarterly plan horizon with resolved calendar and stockpile trajectory
Day types and rota editor with the weekly pattern
Day types, the rota and exception dates

See it with your own operation

A first model takes about an hour: draw the site, describe the cycles, run the day.

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