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Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering): Recent submissions

  • Sugo Bryanpark 
    Van Den Berg, Emile Garrett (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Work scheduling in the restaurant industry is an often neglected task due to the abnormal complexities of having to allocate multi-skilled staff over multiple overlapping shifts to meet dynamic demand. Client satisfaction ...
  • Moving forward 
    Taute, Jana (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    This document is the final project report for a final year project in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, module code BPJ 420. Company ABC is a company that started out as a family-owned business in 1993. ...
  • Airport route development decision support tool for Cape Town Air Access 
    Robertson, Kyle M. (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    The connectedness and accessibility of Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) is critical for the economic growth and development of the Western Cape. Cape Town Air Access (CTAA) is responsible for bolstering the long-term ...
  • Forecasting transportation service demand for fleet optimization: the case of a third party logistics provider 
    Van Aarde, Margo (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular in today’s age where customers have higher expectations from suppliers than ever before. Businesses are collaborating to aim to meet customer demand and stay competitive in the ...
  • The Optimization of the Woodlam Furniture Factory with Specific Reference to It’s Electricity Consumption 
    Wagener, R. (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Woodlam is the leading plywood furniture manufacturer in South Africa, experiencing steady growth in the last few years. Due to the increasing cost of electricity in South Africa it has become important for companies ...
  • Resource scheduling algorithm for maintenance planning 
    Young, Kirsten (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    “Company XYZ” is a company which outsources maintenance to various enterprises all over South Africa. Technicians are hired to travel to their customers which are geographically far from one another to perform maintenance ...
  • Minimise loom changeover time at MONN 
    Nouwens, Marcus (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    MONN is a manufacturer of premium quality and custom woven Axminster carpeting. The process of making a custom woven Axminster carpet involves many processes but the weaving process o ered room for improvement in the ...
  • A facility solution required to incorporate cold sterilisation in the supply chain of citrus exported to Europe 
    Le Roux, Hester (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    This document describes a Final Year Project (BPJ 420) required by the University of Pretoria in partial fulfilment of Systems and Industrial Engineering. This report describes the solution to an identified problem ...
  • Using a discrete-event simulation model to identify bottlenecks and determine the efficiency in a maintenance workshop 
    Venter, Francois Marthinus Fredrick (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Developing a discrete event simulation model based on key aspects in the maintenance workshop in order to identify bottlenecks and determine the efficiency of maintenance practices.
  • Developing an industry solution to service bottom-end markets in South Africa 
    Prinsloo, Riandre (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Logistics and distribution services have been around since the early 1950's. During this time it was only thought of as military services, but since then it has developed into a system that can give any company a competitive ...
  • The development of a decision support model for the picking, staging, combining and loading activities in the grocery distribution warehouse of a large fast moving consumer goods retailer 
    Van Niekerk, W.W. (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    The Pick 'n Pay grocery warehouse situated at the Longmeadow distribution centre (DC) has 10 790 stock keeping units that are received from 123 vendors and are distributed to 421 stores located in several provinces as ...
  • Greedy Algorithm and Model for Analysis of a Bus Fleet's Operations 
    McGladdery, Duncan (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Bus Company (BUSCO) approached Fourier-E, an industrial engineering company, to develop and optimise the Duty Master for their Sowetan operations. The Duty Master is a scheduling blue print that dictates the operations ...
  • Facilities planning : case study at Enterprise, a division of Tiger Brands 
    Keeve, A.F.S. (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    A facility planning project was conducted at Enterprise, a meat processing facility in Gauteng. The project involved the facility layout and design of the hamper room. The hamper room is defined as an area where four ...
  • Investigating Sales and Production Volumes of Metals using a Bayesian Change Point Detection Approach 
    Ingham, Michael (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    This paper identified change points in the production volumes and sales of various metals in South Africa from the period 2003-2016. The socioeconomic environment in which the mining sector operates is complicated, with ...
  • Single machine scheduling for powder coating aluminium profiles 
    Kruger, Karien (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Scheduling is one of the most important issues in the planning and operation of manufacturing systems (Hoitomt, Luh, & Pattipati, 1993). It is becoming crucial for businesses to be able to schedule effectively. This is ...
  • Improving probabilistic record linkage with a single-layer neural network 
    Hamersma, Kris A. (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Data analysis requires data to be of a high quality. Unfortunately this is not always the case, especially when data is extracted from di erent data sources. In the case where there is no unique identi er to match data ...
  • An investigation into the improvement of the inventory management process, in the automotive OEM company's supply chain 
    Greyling, M.T. (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    The automotive industry tends to have high volumes of accumulation of inventory. Likely reasons for this is that the automotive industry aim to have high customer service levels, which implies that they need to stock ...
  • Food Security in South Africa : improving the availability, affordability, and quality of fresh produce in informal communities 
    De Beer, Darren (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    This project addresses the growing concern of food security in informal communities in South Africa by carrying out a case study on the fresh produce supply chain in Soshanguve South. The focus of the project is to ...
  • Reducing the amount of defects at the quality control station by using statistical process control 
    Van Loggerenberg, Nichole (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    The aim of this document is to provide the reader with information regarding the quality problems the company Parsec (Pty) Ltd experiences in their manufacturing facility, and the solution to solving this problem. Research ...
  • Production scheduling of Aluminium Anodising plant 
    Behr, Carina (University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017)
    Wispeco Aluminium decided to reduce a double line aluminium anodising plant to a single line. This change forces the anodising plant to run at maximum capacity. To be able to run at maximum capacity, it is suggested that ...