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title: "Production PBI Dashboard"
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# Overview

The **Production Power BI Dashboard**, provides a unified, interactive reporting suite for production, processing, and safety performance. The dashboard delivers current, historical, and detailed views of production data, with flexible filtering and drill‑down capabilities.

Data is automatically refreshed **daily** and is optimized for standard Production MDS configurations.

## Report 1: Summary (Current Year)

This report provides a consolidated year‑to‑date view of key operational and financial performance, based on the current system date.

Data is presented in clearly defined sections covering:

- **Open Pit Mining**
- **Underground Mining**
- **Plant Processing**
- **Safety, Health & Environment**
- **Total Operations**

For each category, the report displays comparative performance across multiple time horizons, enabling quick identification of variances and trends.

Users can customise the view by selecting any combination of:

- **Actuals**
- **Budget**
- **Difference (Variance)**

This flexibility allows users to focus on the information most relevant to their analysis, whether reviewing budget performance, tracking actual results, or investigating variances.

![Summary - Current year.png](media://e6ce8672-039f-40c7-bce3-4efe1881a0c9)

## Report 2: Summary (Historical)

This report provides a consolidated view of operational and financial performance across a **user‑selected historical date range**.

Data is organised into clearly defined sections covering:

- **Open Pit Mining**
- **Underground Mining**
- **Plant Processing**
- **Safety, Health & Environment**
- **Total Operations**

The report supports flexible analysis by allowing users to choose any combination of:

- **Actuals**
- **Budget**
- **Difference (Variance)**

In addition, users can control the level of aggregation displayed, including:

- **Previous Year (PY)**
- **Month‑to‑Date (MTD)**
- **Year‑to‑Date (YTD)**

This enables detailed trend analysis, period‑over‑period comparisons, and a deeper understanding of performance over time.

![Summary - Historic.png](media://0c3e601c-9743-49e3-96f9-de4d54abf09f)

## Report 3: Summary (Historical Yearly)

This report presents a high‑level summary of operational and financial performance, **aggregated by year** to support long‑term trend and performance analysis.

Data is structured into clearly defined sections covering:

- **Open Pit Mining**
- **Underground Mining**
- **Plant Processing**
- **Safety, Health & Environment**
- **Total Operations**

Users can tailor the report view by selecting any combination of:

- **Actuals**
- **Budget**
- **Difference (Variance)**

In addition, users can choose which **historical years** to display, enabling clear year‑over‑year comparisons and insights into longer‑term performance trends and budget alignment.

![Summary hist year.png](media://a9ba6e3e-b370-4311-bb44-ba2753cacb8b)

## Report 4: Summary (Category Details)

This highly interactive **graph and table report** enables detailed analysis by allowing users to select a specific **Category** and relevant **Subcategory**.

The** graph** displays **actual values** across the selected date range, highlighting performance 

These visuals support deeper operational insight by combining trend analysis with comparative context, helping users quickly understand both current performance and historical movement at a detailed category level.

  
The **table view** provides a detailed breakdown of performance metrics for the selected **Category** and **Subcategory**.

It displays **Actual**, **Budget**, and **Difference (Variance)** values across a range of **user‑defined calculation types**, aligned with the context of the selected graph.

Users can control which calculations are shown, enabling analysis across measures such as selected date range, period‑to‑date, and year‑to‑date views. This ensures the table remains directly relevant to the visual trends displayed in the graph.

Together, the table and graph offer a consistent and flexible way to analyse detailed performance, supporting deeper investigation and informed decision‑making at a granular category level.

![Summary - Caterorgy.png](media://c1eca267-b099-427a-8c4f-20322d31d2de)

![Sum etails table.png](media://e678940e-3887-47e8-83cb-ba2411d14d4d)

## Report 5: Summary (Actual vs Budget)

This report provides a highly interactive **graph and table view** designed to support direct comparison between **Actual** and **Budget** performance.

Users can select a specific **Category** and relevant **Subcategory** to focus the analysis on the required operational area.

The report includes:

- A **top bar chart** displaying **Actual versus Budget** values across the selected date range, clearly highlighting variances between planned and actual performance.
- A **detailed table** positioned below the chart, presenting period‑level data alongside cumulative totals and variances.
- **Summary indicators** that highlight total Actuals, Budget, and the overall variance for the selected period.

Together, these elements provide a clear and intuitive view of budget performance, enabling users to quickly identify deviations, assess trends, and support informed decision‑making at both detailed and summary levels.

![Prod Act budg.png](media://bf86b9d5-cd18-401e-9908-f0ea5bf787fc)

## Report 6: Summary (Plant Processing)

This report provides a comprehensive **graphical overview of key plant processing performance metrics** for the selected date range.

Multiple visual summaries are presented to highlight critical operational indicators, including production volumes, processing efficiency, availability, and utilisation measures.

Each visualisation is designed to support quick interpretation of trends and comparative performance, enabling users to:

- Assess processing performance over time
- Identify operational drivers and constraints
- Monitor efficiency and throughput at a glance

Together, these graphical summaries deliver a clear, high‑level view of plant processing performance, supporting informed operational review and decision‑making.

![Plant processing.png](media://5659e3f7-b6da-4013-b2a8-d610318eedc5)

## Report 7: Summary (Underground Mining)

This report provides a consolidated **graphical overview of key underground mining performance metrics** for the selected date range.

A series of visual summaries present critical underground mining indicators, including ore and waste movement, development metres, and related productivity measures.

These visuals enable users to:

- Monitor underground production and development activity
- Identify trends and changes in performance over time
- Compare key operational drivers at a glance

Together, the graphical summaries deliver a clear, high‑level view of underground mining performance, supporting operational review, performance tracking, and informed decision‑making.

![Undergouynd.png](media://ff31e0f5-4daa-40c5-81fc-022ae4272752)

## Legend

The **Legend** provides a clear reference for the **short codes, measures, and units** used across the various tables and graphs within the reporting suite.

It explains how each metric is defined, including:

- **Category** and **Subcategory**
- **Code** used throughout the reports
- **Unit of measure** applied to each value

### Important

The values, terminology, and units displayed are **dependent on the configured Primary Element** and reporting units defined in `tblSysParam`** within the MDS**.

This ensures consistent interpretation of data across all reports while allowing flexibility based on site‑specific or system‑level configuration.

The Legend should be used as a reference point to accurately interpret report outputs and ensure alignment between metrics, units, and underlying system configuration.

![Legend.png](media://6ec9d2a5-002f-4225-9b72-7d9ba48ab48d)

## Help – How to Use the Report

The **Help** section provides users with guidance on how to navigate and interpret the reports.

Users can download a comprehensive **PDF presentation** containing step‑by‑step instructions, explanations of report features, and practical examples to support effective use of the reporting suite.

The help screen also displays key system information, including:

- Connected **server** and **database**
- **Last refresh date and time**

This ensures transparency around data currency and system context while giving users easy access to supporting documentation when required.

The Help section serves as the central reference point for understanding report functionality and maximising the value of the available insights.

![help.png](media://0de5124c-e791-4185-b476-bbddbada176d)