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  • Using a new supply chain planning methodology to improve supply chain efficiency 
    Raubenheimer, A.L.V.; Conradie, Pieter J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    Effective supply chain planning and management has emerged as one of the most challenging opportunities for companies in the global economy during the last decade or two. This article reviews the evolution of Supply Chain ...
  • Implementation drivers for BPR at Siemens Telecommunications 
    Koorts, Casper-Cobus; Conradie, Pieter J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2000)
    With the embracing of new management philosophies or redesigned processes, it is becoming a popular opinion that often the practical problem lies with the implementation of the new concept, rather than with the concept ...
  • Automated software distribution 
    Strasheim, J.J.; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1998)
    Automated distribution of computer software via electronic means in large corporate networks is growing in popularity. The relative importance of personal computer software, in financial and logistical terms, is described ...
  • Six Sigma as a total quality management tool 
    Odendaal, C.E.; Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    The ultimate goal of most companies is to make money and even more money in the future. Part of increasing profits means reducing costs, improving quality and increasing throughput. This paper describes the use of Six ...
  • Business design in the enterprise life-cycle 
    Rottier, Johan; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944-; Pretorius, Pieter J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2001)
    The purpose of this paper is to facilitate systematic management of the design of Enterprises throughout their life-cycle by identifying the events (requirements) which should initiate (re)design. It identifies the high ...
  • The art of simulation modelling 
    Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    It is the contention of the author that practising the “art” of modelling has been, and always will be, of great importance to the ultimate success of any project employing a simulation approach. Yet very few publications ...
  • An object oriented approach towards the specification of simulation models 
    Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1994-12)
    To manage problems, is to try and cope with a flux of interacting events and ideas which unrolls through time - with the manager trying to improve situations seen as problematical, or at least as less than perfect. The ...
  • On Gaver's parallel system 
    Vanderperre, E.J.; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Makhanov, S.S. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2004)
    Gaver’s parallel system (and its variants) has received considerable attention in the literature. The Laplace-transform (LT) of the survival function, corresponding to the underlying systems, has been derived by various ...
  • A two-product inventory system with product interaction 
    Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Hargreaves, C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    In this paper, we study a two-component continuous review inventory system. We assume that demand occurs according to a Poisson process and that a demand can be satisfied only if both the components are available in the ...
  • Realising the potential of manufacturing execution systems 
    Van Dyk, Liezl; Van Schoor, Christiaan de Wet (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2001)
    The term Manufacturing Execution System (MES) was created by Advanced Manufacturing Research (AMR) in 1990 to describe a suite of software products, which enables the execution of manufacturing through the integration ...
  • Managing benchmarking in a corporate environment 
    Mouton, D.M.; Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    Most new generation organisations have management models and processes for measuring and managing organisational performance. However, the application of these models and the direction the company needs to take are not ...
  • Reliability centred maintenance for industrial use: significant advances for the new millennium 
    Coetzee, J.L.; Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    Maintenance organisations have to obtain the correct strategic ’mix’ to ensure success. This includes having a strategically sound maintenance policy and managerial procedures, a well thought through maintenance plan, a ...
  • The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards 
    Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1994-06)
    The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards are similar in nature to the National Productivity Awards, which are annually presented by the NPI, in recognition of outstanding achievements in productivity improvement. ...
  • Advantages and limitations of an automated visual inspection system 
    Smith, C.J.; Adendorff, Kris (Kristian) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1991-06)
    'n Outomatiese visuele inspeksiestelsel is nie die wonderwerk wat die industrie verwag het nie. Daar is probleemareas wat goed ondersoek en verstaan moet word. Die vernaamste voordele en nadele word hier bespreek. Dit ...
  • Modelling of a stochastic continuous system 
    Albertyn, Martin; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1998)
    The key objective is to develop a method which can be utilized to model a stochastic continuous system. A system from the "real world" is used as the basis for the simulation modelling technique that is presented. The ...
  • Quality systems in the fresh fruit export industry 
    Netterville, R.; Adendorff, Kris (Kristian) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    The fresh fruit export industry has traditionally relied heavily on end point inspection to achieve quality. In response to several changes in international markets and concerns over the inability of end point inspection ...
  • Markovian modelling in business risk analysis 
    Bosman, Stephan; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1998)
    Risk analysis in a business context is largely intangible, allowing limited opportunity for the development of means by which the risk can be more securely assured, and in the long run, appropriately managed. This paper ...
  • Dynamical industrial systems 
    Adendorff, Kris (Kristian) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    There is widespread evidence that industrial systems do not consistently perform in a stable fashion regardless of how diligently they have been designed and operated. Operation of a system is often in a dynamic sense ...
  • A decision support model for the cash replenishment process in South African retail banking 
    Adendorff, S.A. (Susan Aletta), 1961-; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2000)
    A scientifically-based decision-making procedure for determining the amount of cash to be held at a cash point of a retail bank at any time without compromising customer service levels or incurring undue cost was developed. ...
  • Complex network approach to understand commercial vehicle movement 
    Joubert, Johan W.; Axhausen, Kay W. (Springer, 2013-05)
    We introduce complex network analysis and use a commercial vehicle’s observed trip as a proxy for a business relation between two facilities in its activity chain. We extract facility locations by applying density-based ...