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  • Stochastic simulation for budget prediction for large surface mines in the South African mining industry 
    Hager, J.; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Webber-Youngman, Ronald C.W. (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2015-06)
    This article investigates the complex problem of a budgeting process for a large mining operation. Strict adherence to budget infers that financial results align with goals. In reality, the budget is not a predetermined ...
  • A farm site development method : creating a roadmap towards site saturation 
    Van der Merwe, R.E.; Liebenberg, A.; De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2014-11)
    Agricultural engineering applies existing knowledge to provide for humanity’s greatest need: food for survival. This article presents an opportunity to augment existing agricultural engineering practices with industrial ...
  • An application of the extended technology acceptance model in understanding technology-enabled financial service adoption in South Africa 
    Wentzel, John Peter; Diatha, Krishna Sundar; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Routledge, 2013-12)
    The last 10 years have seen a significant increase in the provision of consumer services through technology. Computers, mobile phones, the Internet and self-service kiosks are examples of technology platforms that have ...
  • Assessment of the quality of service provided by a national regulatory institution 
    Adetunji, Olufemi; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Malada, Awelani (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2013-05)
    Government institutions need to assess how well they meet the needs of their customers, and what their customers think about the quality of the services they provide. This is aligned with the ‘Batho Pele’ principle of the ...
  • A method to enhance existing business-IT alignment approaches 
    De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2013-08)
    Enterprise engineering has recently emerged as a new discipline to address the intensified complexity and dynamics of the evolving enterprise by designing, aligning, and governing its development. Enterprise designers ...
  • An operations research and simulation-based study on improving the efficiency of a slurry drying tower 
    De Jongh, Eben; Botha, G.J. (Gesina Jozina) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2013-08)
    This paper relates to a company that produces washing powders. The focus is on improving the efficiency of gas usage (per unit of powder produced) in the furnace that produces hot air. This hot air is an integral part of ...
  • A people-centred view on paratransit in South Africa 
    Woolf, S.E.; Joubert, Johan W. (Elsevier, 2013-12)
    Paratransit provides a valuable service offering as a flexible and substitutional mode between formal transit and private car. When it evolves to compete with more formal transit modes, efforts are made to formalise it. ...
  • Decision support in supply chain management for disaster relief in Somalia 
    Van Wyk, Estelle; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Carstens, Herman (Springer, 2013)
    Somalia, a country situated in Eastern Africa has been struggling between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine. Diseases have resulted to the deaths of up to millions of people. According to a New York Times ...
  • Optimal distribution of replicated data in computer networks 
    Strasheim, J.J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1994-12)
    The rapid development in computer networks has enabled the implementation of new methods of data distribution. There are however, no available tools for supportinq decision making and planning in this application area ...
  • Production mix problems : formulation and solution strategies 
    Warren, Graeme (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2001)
    This paper examines the sub-optimality of generalized greedy heuristics for solution of a certain well-known production mix problem formulation. The drawbacks of not modelling routing in the mix problem formulation are ...
  • Manufacturing simulators 
    Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944-; Schutte, C.S.L. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1987-12)
    Simulation modelling has been identified as one of the most powerful techniques available for the analysis and design of complex manufacturing systems. A number of manufacturing simulators have been designed in an ...
  • Simulation modelling as a tool for performing availability and sensitivity analysis 
    Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944-; Schutte, C.S.L. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1990-06)
    Simulation modelling is a general purpose tool that may be used to provide decision support in a number of application areas. It may be used to analyze, design or "optimize" manufacturing, materials handling, management, ...
  • Alternatiewe voorraadklassifikasiemetodes 
    Strasheim, J.J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1992-06)
    Omdat daar duisende vooraaditems in die tipiese Motorhandelaar se onderdelevoorraad aangehou word genoodsaak dit die een of ander klassifikasiemetode vir die doeleindes van vraagvooruitskatting en bestuursverslaggewmg. ...
  • The industrial engineer as enterprise designer 
    Rottier, Johan (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1997)
    A method is proposed by which the suitability of development capabilities can be evaluated for Enterprise design. The method is based on a model for development and models for various aspects of Enterprises. The evaluation ...
  • Demand forecasting for motor vehicle spare parts 
    Strasheim, J.J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1992-12)
    Reordering motor vehicle spare parts for the purposes of stock replenishment is an important function of the parts manager in the typical motor dealership. Meaningful reordering requires a reliable forecast of the future ...
  • The philosophy-tool continuum: providing structure to Industrial engineering concepts 
    Van Dyk, Liezl (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2001)
    Industrial Engineering concepts are often referred to as either a tool, technique, method, approach or philosophy. These terminologies can be positioned on a continuum according to their meaning as defined by the Oxford ...
  • Learning management systems : engineering the education industry to educate the industrial engineer 
    Van Dyk, Liezl (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    A learning management system (LMS) is any infrastructure on which e-learning can be built and delivered. In this article two sides of the LMS coin are investigated: On the one side, it is argued that industrial and systems ...
  • Control charts for stationary Vector ARMA processes 
    Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes); Singh, N. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    In practice, there are many quality control situations where a product under consideration may have two or more interrelated quality characteristics and observations of each characteristic are serially correlated. One of ...
  • Betroubaarheids- en instandhoubaarheidstoedeling 
    Lottering, W.A.; Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1988-12)
    Ontwerpdoelwitte vir die betroubaarheid an instandhoubaarheid van substelsels moet so bepaal word dat die gebruikersvereiste ten opsigte van betroubaarheid en instandhoubaarheid van die stelsel behaal word as substelseldoelwitte ...
  • A model to optimize payloads at PFG Building Glass 
    Brits, R.; Conradie, Pieter J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    While improving customer service by allowing user definable mixed load orders of their plate glass product, PFG Building Glass was confronted with a problem of calculating the feasibility and optimum load layout for ...