Abstract: The review analysis reveals that current blasting design software for open-pit mining predominantly focuses on optimizing isolated operational processes, lacking data integration with downstream production stages. Economic evaluations remain narrowly centered on explosive consumption metrics, omitting comprehensive multi-dimensional cost considerations. As an integral component of digital mine systems, intelligent blasting design software enables seamless integration with subsystems like mine production management platforms and geological resource databases. By extending design functionalities to downstream workflows, it empowers digital mine systems to achieve precise control over end-to-end production processes, maximizing the economic value of blasting operations. Taking a limestone mine as an example, the implementation of intelligent software streamlined workflows into: blasting zone definition, scheme comparison and optimization, automated hole layout, charge configuration, blast network design, and final output generation. Crucially, muck pile fragmentation recognition technology provides data-driven support for automated scheme optimization. This innovative software development pioneers full lifecycle cost optimization for blasting plans, establishing a new paradigm for enhancing mine profitability through systematic cost economics.
