Module
Operations Answer the question that orders a facility's operation — how much water comes in, how much goes out and how much stays — and see the pipelines that carry tailings and water: where they run, what equipment they have and what their instruments say.
Your facility's water balance lives in a spreadsheet that only one person understands.
The problem
What happens today at a facility
In most operations, a facility's water balance lives in a spreadsheet one person updates. It is a good spreadsheet — usually years of work inside — and it has three problems that improving it will not fix: only its keeper understands it, the source data is copied by hand, and it is not where the rest of the conversation is. When freeboard shrinks, the discussion happens over a screenshot of that spreadsheet pasted into an email.
Pipelines are similar. Kilometres of line with pumps, boxes and drop chambers, and their state is checked in the control system point by point: a pump's flow on one screen, a reach's pressure on another. Nobody sees the whole line, with its equipment in order and the failing instrument marked where it sits.
Twin Mining TMS puts the balance and the pipelines in the same place as the alerts, the tasks and the document that justifies each band. A flow rate without its band is a number, not an alarm.
What it does
Capabilities, with their nuance.
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Water balance as a waterfall
Inflows, outflows and the result, in a single reading, instead of scattered across a spreadsheet. On the same screen as the alerts and the tasks.
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The circuit is drawn
The tailings circuit is represented as a navigable schematic diagram, with facility and junction nodes and animated flow edges. Most tools in the sector show tables of measurement points; here the flow has a shape.
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Performance and alerts on the map
Operational elements coloured by their threshold band, and the pipeline routes over the facility map; each point opens its series. In the demo, test sensors with simulated series sit alongside the rest.
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Pipelines with their real route
Tailings, return-water and drainage pipelines are drawn with their real route over the facility, grouped by system, and each has a card with length, straightness, azimuth and associated instruments. The route comes from the survey, not from a sketch.
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A process schematic per pipeline
Each pipeline has a schematic with its equipment — boxes, drop chambers, pumps, junctions — and its instruments coloured by band. Equipment is shown in order, not to scale, and the screen says so; what is real is the length of each reach, labelled. It is not an engineering drawing.
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Instruments attach themselves
Instruments attach themselves to the nearest pipeline and are placed at their real chainage, with their offset from the axis. Nobody maintains by hand the list of which sensor belongs to which line.
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A data source swapped by configuration
The interface consumes a contract — readings, summary, balance, topology — and does not know where the data comes from. Behind it are swappable adapters; there are three implementations. Connecting a client's historian does not require rewriting a screen, but each concrete connection is an integration project, not a checkbox.
When freeboard shrinks, the discussion happens over a screenshot pasted into an email.
Scope
What it decides and what it does not
What it works out on its own
It presents. When a sensor has no configured threshold, it derives bands from its own series with the same shape as a real threshold — and it knows that for freeboard, factor of safety and strength the dangerous side is the low side, so it mirrors them. That is not an operational recommendation: it is a reference value so that a number never appears bare on screen, and the interface does not present it as an approved threshold.
What it never decides
It decides nothing about the operation. Thresholds are defined by a person, and changing them is subject to the management-of-change lock — currently in observe mode. It does not model flow, does not detect leaks and does not act on pumps or valves: there is no write path to control systems.
Honesty
What it does not do yet, on purpose.
We would rather say it before the first meeting.
- Five of the nine menu entries are not built: transport and deposition plan, storage capacity, sand deposition, environmental and operational reports. They do not appear in the demo and are not part of what is shown.
- There is no hydraulic profile, head-loss calculation, leak detection or pump-and-valve control. The screen draws the route, orders the equipment and shows readings; it does not model flow or act on anything. That there is no write path to the control system is also the module's most valuable safety property.
- In the demo, every sensor without readings gets a deterministic simulated series that never overwrites real data. In the process schematic it is marked with a dashed border and a simulated label; on the main performance map there are old test sensors without that mark. No capture is live telemetry.
- The architecture is ready to connect the client's historian. Each concrete integration is still a project; we do not promise it as immediate.
- The water-balance forecast appears in the menu and is disabled in the demo.
Screens
What it looks like inside
Who it is for
Who comes in through here
- RTFE — Responsible Tailings Facility Engineer Something crosses a threshold and they find out late.
- Site or shift supervisor A shift that starts without knowing what to look at.
Frequently asked questions
What people usually ask about this module
Short answers with no overclaiming. If something is not built yet, we say so.
Does Twin Mining TMS connect to my historian or control system?
The data layer is designed for it: the interface consumes a contract — sensor readings, summary, water balance, topology — and does not know where the data comes from. Behind it are swappable adapters chosen by configuration, and three implementations exist. Plugging in a client's historian does not require rewriting a single screen.
But each concrete connection is an integration project, not a checkbox. We do not promise it as immediate. And there is no write path to the control system: the platform reads and presents, it does not act on pumps or valves. That is also its most valuable safety property.
The historian has the series. What it does not have is the band, the task or the document that justifies the band; that is what the platform adds.
Is the pipeline schematic a hydraulic model? Does it detect leaks?
No. The screen draws each pipeline's real route — it comes from the survey — orders its equipment and shows its instruments' readings coloured by threshold band. It does not model flow, compute head losses, detect leaks or blockages, or control pumps and valves.
The process schematic is in order, not to scale, and the screen says so; what is real is the length of each reach, which is labelled. It is not an engineering drawing. What it adds is something else: a twenty-kilometre line that reads at a glance, with the out-of-band instrument marked at its chainage rather than in a list.
How are data integrated from instrumentation, sensors, and other systems?
Twin Mining TMS's data layer uses interchangeable adapters per source: the screen consumes a contract and the source — geotechnical and geochemical instrumentation, sensors, corporate systems — is swapped by configuration without touching the interface. There is also an API for integration; there is no write path towards control systems.
Each integration is a piece of work, not a checkbox: source, frequency and units have to be agreed with the operator. We say so up front so nobody arrives at the first meeting expecting an automatic connection.
Integrations are implemented incrementally, source by source, without stopping what already works.
What is a TARP in tailings facility management?
TARP stands for Trigger Action Response Plan. It is the set of threshold bands for an instrument — green, amber, red — together with the response defined for each: which actions are mandatory, who must approve them, and who must be notified.
Explained to someone outside the sector: it is a sensor's traffic light, plus what has to happen when it changes colour.
In Twin Mining TMS the threshold, the response, and the document backing it live on the same screen, and changing a threshold goes through a formal management-of-change record. That last link is what separates a TMS from a monitoring system.
Other modules
What connects with this module.
- Management of Change We know who signed. We don't know what they had in front of them when they signed. That is the problem. See the module →
- GISTM Your GISTM self-assessment is green. When did anyone last open the document that supports it? See the module →
- Knowledge Base "It's in the stability report" is not an answer. "Page 47, revision C" is. See the module →
- Agents It's three in the morning and the ground just shook. Where is the TARP? See the module →
- Physical Stability The engineer thinks about the dam in section. Monitoring software shows it in plan. See the module →
- Twin Model Fleet in one system, works in the contractor's drawings, facility in another. Where do you see them together? See the module →
Request a demonstration
Let's talk about your facility.
Tell us which facility you manage and what keeps you up at night. We will walk you through the demonstration environment with someone from the team, module by module, and tell you frankly what is built and what is not.
- We reply within 24 business hours
- Guided demonstration, tailored to your operation
- No commitment. There is no public price: we talk