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

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

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  • An inventory management model for Profection Manufacturers 
    Jansen van Rensburg, H.C.; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2010-03-11)
    An inventory management model is built for the job shop manufacturing company, Profection Manufacturers, who experienced difficulty with their sheet metal inventory control. Research is done on facility planning, warehouse ...
  • Maintenance scheduling of earth moving equipment at the Klipspruit colliery 
    Greeff, Albert; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2010-04-14)
    An investigative study of BHP billiton's Klipspriut colliery is done to deter-mine the best design for a maintenance workshop that services track and tyre based ). The workshop is under construction and management requires ...
  • Malt distribution network design for the South African Breweries 
    De Kock, Carin; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2009-07-20)
    The main aim of the project is to optimise the malt distribution network of the South African Breweries (SAB) in such a manner as to present them with a minimum cost solution for the network. Mathematical modelling is ...
  • 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 ...
  • The optimisation of a mechanised platinum mining section 
    Franklin, Chris Evan; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2009-08-14)
    Mechanised mining is an important strategy to improve the safety and reduce the cost of mining operations. The aim of this project is to analyse and improve the performance of the Extra Low Profile (XLP) section at Anglo ...
  • Optimised inbound processes and vendor scheduling for a large retailer 
    Agas, Marco Edward (2014)
    A large retailer has established that its vendor truck’s turnaround time within its distribution centre is not entirely satisfactory. The retailer aims to decrease this turnaround time in a way that would provide the ...
  • Optimising production time of continuous miners at Goedehoop Colliery 
    Kraucamp, Yovanka (2014)
    Anglo American and the rest of the mining landscape are confronted with a number of challenges such as the depressed economy and the relatively low selling price of coal. These affect profit margins. Anglo American changed ...
  • Optimising the allocation of fleet across business units 
    Le Riche, N. (Nicole) (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2018)
    The aim of this project is to develop the optimum implementable fleet allocation solution. This entails optimising the re-allocation process of fleets across all business units and achieving costefficiencies, taking ...