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Theses and Dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Health care, and especially access to health care, has always been a critical metric for countries. In 2017, South Africa spent 9% of its GDP on health care. Despite the GDP health care allocation being 5% higher than ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The in-flight catering industry is a major contributor to food wastage. This wastage is a direct result of the deliberate overproduction of in-flight meals to protect against meal shortages and dissatisfied passengers. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Given the increasing emphasis on multi-perspective modelling, the University of Pretoria’s Industrial Engineering Department requires a tool that enables horizontal transformation between DEMO (Design and Engineering ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-02-18)Criminal networks exploit vulnerabilities in the global financial system, using it as a conduit to launder criminal proceeds. Law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and regulatory organizations often scrutinize ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The portfolio selection problem has been widely understood and practised for millennia, but it was rst formalised by Markowitz (1952) with the proposition of a risk-reward trade-o model. Since then, portfolio selection ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The classic flow shop problem assumes that jobs make only single passes through the processing machines and that the processing times are not affected by the length of the delay before jobs are processed. These assumptions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Growing items have, in recent years, emerged as a distinct class of items within inventory modelling, similar to perishable or repairable items, for example. This class of items includes livestock, crops and fish, to name ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-01-14)This dissertation solves the BAP, using SBO. Chapter 1 describes the role buffers play within a production line. Buffer is allocated to decouple stations and reduce the effect station failure and differing process times ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Modelling complex systems such as how the white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum uses a landscape requires innovative and multi-disciplinary approaches. Bayesian networks have been shown to provide a dynamic, easily ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This thesis aims to study and discover the main daily functional operations and sub-operations at typical container terminals, the terminal equipment deployed, container vessels and containerships, types of terminals, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The focus of this thesis is the development and solution of problems that simultaneously involve the planning of the location of facilities and transportation decisions from such facilities to consumers. This has been ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The rapid rate of increase in competition among the manufacturing industries has caused many organizations to continuously seek improvement in the quality of the products they manufacture to meet and exceed customer ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Fitness trackers equipped with accelerometers and global positioning systems are becoming more popular among the running community. These devices allow runners across the spectrum of athletic abilities to monitor their ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)One of the more recent advances in inventory management is the modelling of inventory systems consisting of items which are capable of growing during the course of the replen- ishment cycle. These items, such as livestock, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Manufacturing competitiveness is imperative for many economies because of the importance of the sector in job creation and economic growth. Manufacturing Competitiveness Index (MCI) has been used to measure this construct, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This thesis explores the potential to unify three emerging disciplines: enterprise engineering, enterprise architecture and enterprise ontology. The current fragmentation that exists in literature on enterprise alignment ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The rapid development and proliferation of GPS-enabled systems and devices has led to a significant increase in the availability of transport data, more specifically GPS trajectories, that can be used in researching ...
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Evaluating and allocating outbound logistics cost in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry (University of Pretoria, 2018)Logistics costs constituted 11.7%, 11.1% and 11.2% of South Africa’s total GDP during 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. The risk of high transport cost (compared to global averages), a depressed South African economy and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The automotive parts supply chain is characterised by expectations of high levels of parts availability, as vehicles are designed to be maintained throughout their life cycles. There is, however, a significant level of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018-02)Today's supply chains face increasing volatility on many fronts. From the shop-floor where machines break and suppliers fail to the boardrooms where unanticipated price inflation erodes profi tability. Turbulence is the ...
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