Turn the day's targets into work a machine can drive.
Iron Tactics is the planners. They take the day's targets from the strategic plan and decide which machine runs which play, where and in what order, down to the path each machine drives. It is one of the mule.bot tools that Iron Context ties together.
A plan a machine can drive and a foreman can read
Plays
A play is the named shape of a job: a scraper cut and fill, a dozer push to a windrow, a truck spotted at a face. The planner picks plays for the day's targets and places them on the ground.
Work orders
Each play becomes work orders: this machine, this lane, this cut depth, this dump point, in this order. An order carries the path to drive and the area the machine may use.
The ground as it stands
The planner reads the surface as the last pass left it, and plans the next pass from that. The records of the work come back and the planner is calibrated from them.
Truck spots along a retreating face
The loading tool digs the face cell by cell. For each load the planner places the truck spot where the dig can reach it, names the bearing and whether the truck backs in, and draws the path in and the path out. The keep-out area retreats with the face. The film is the plan itself, before a machine has driven it.
Worked examples for the teams we work with
Planner films
Scraper cut and fill, dozer stripping and pile pushing, loading at a face and yard moves, each as a plan and as a run.
Studies
What a change to the plan does to a shift: machines waiting, loads per hour, the hours recovered.
Your targets, planned
How a strategic plan or a set of targets is handed to the planners, and what the work orders carry back.
One of the tools above the machine
Iron Context is all of the mule.bot tools and the written interface between each pair, so any one of them can be replaced by yours. Iron Tactics reads from and writes to its neighbours.
Iron Curriculum
What a competent crew does, in what order and under which rules, written as use cases and plays.
ironcurriculum.ai ▶Test tracksIron Range
Tracks where a planner or a whole autonomy stack drives the plays and leaves a record that replays.
ironrange.si ▶SimulationIron Table
The site in three dimensions, worked by machines drawn to their makers' sheets. Every run is a record and a film.
irontable.ai ▶The systemHitch
The connection to your machine or system: the full system less the machine, or the one interface your product needs.
mule.bot ▶Working with us
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