Browsing Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Subject "Linear programming"

Browsing Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Subject "Linear programming"

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  • Cable manufacturing: meeting the demand 
    Eloff, F.C.; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2011)
    The demand of a cable manufacturer’s current product is increasing and a new product is about to be introduced. Resulting in a big rise in the demand. With the current setup the production will not meet the demand. Thus ...
  • Design of a standard operating procedure for the loading of buckets in Camps Drift Remelt 
    Gouweloos, Deborah; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, November 2)
    This project is an analysis of the performance of Hulamin’s Camps Drift Remelt (CDR) facility in order to establish a standard operating procedure for the loading of scrap into buckets for different furnaces. Taking into ...
  • The mathematical formulation and scheduling for creating a self sustainable vegetable food garden 
    Fourie, L.J.; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2010-03-10)
    The idea of this project is to optimize the operations of a community vegetable garden to produce enough food for a certain amount of people as well as achieve financial self sustainability. The project looks at the ...
  • Optimising animal diets at the Johannesburg zoo 
    Engelbrecht, Emma; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2009-08-14)
    The feeding of captive animals is more complex than merely combining compatible feed ingredients and rationing the amounts to what is believed to be adequate. The aim of this project is to reduce the expenses that the zoo ...
  • Optimizing delivery routes for newspapers and magazines using vehicle routing problem 
    Burger, Berndt; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2013-04-30)
    The current market of media in the form of newspapers and magazines is facing one of the greatest challenges of their existence. New media’s such as television and the internet, have replaced the need for newspapers and ...
  • A volunteer rostering problem: scheduling of moderators to provide optimal coverage in an on-line chess website 
    Van Buisbergen, Marilize; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2012)
    This project aims to change the way ChessCube manages its moderators by introducing Operations Research related concepts to the moderator management process to improve the coverage provided by existing moderators, as well ...