PURPOSE : Buoyed by the increasing demand for improved productivity and environmentally conscious manufacturing, research in the area of lean production and green manufacturing has experienced significant growth since Dües ...
PURPOSE : This research aims to examine the complementary impact of Lean Manufacturing (LM) and Green Manufacturing (GM) on operational and environmental performance.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : A survey was conducted ...
The South African sunflower industry is considering transferring to a quality-based marketing system driven by an incentive. However, the ability of silos to offer necessary segregation services is critical in such a ...
De Vries, Marne; Opperman, Petra(Springer, 2023-08)
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the need for process automation, using agile software development practices. However, when agile methods are used in scaled contexts, many software development efforts fail, mainly due to ...
Sustainability of steel manufacturing industries in most under developing economies around the globe has become an issue of concern bothering around both environmental and systemic sustainability. The principles of circular ...
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper was to develop a quantitative classroom observation method that is able to analyse the school day to identify Time-on-Task losses comprehensively and systematically, at a level of detail ...
To safeguard the livelihood of consumers, food producers are required, either by law or regulatory bodies, to inspect their products for quality before selling the products to consumers. This is because food processing, ...
Food production systems are complex industrial operations that often involve multiple parties. This study
proposes inventory management strategies for a multi-echelon perishable food supply chain with growing
and ...
Joubert, Johan W.; Hitge, Gerhard; International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models,
Methodologies and Applications (12th : 2023 : Leuven, Belgium)(Elsevier, 2023)
Conventional wisdom is that a person's attitude towards an issue dictates their behaviour. In contrast, self-perception theory accounts for how a person forms their attitude. In the context of this paper, the theory asserts ...
Ibrahim, Hanif Auwal(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Nigeria being the most populous black nation on earth, with a high birth rate and growing industrial,
commercial, transportation, and agricultural activities has been caught up with the dilemma of
insufficient power ...
Ibrahim, Hanif Auwal; Ayomoh, Michael Kweneojo; Ayomoh, Michael(Elsevier, 2022-12)
There is a rapid increase in energy demand across several developing economies all over the world. This can be attributed to population growth, industrialization, urbanization, globalization, and occasional unforeseen ...
Tshinangi, Kapya; Adetunji, Olufemi; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma(Ram Arti Publishers, 2022-10)
Conventional production systems assume that during the manufacturing processes, machines operate without breakdown over an infinite planning horizon and manufacture only products of good quality. Imperfect production ...
PURPOSE : This paper aims to establish a systematically constructed defence offset technology transfer (TT) process description and to identify the process pain points and critical success factors from the supplier ...
Mbewe, Josephine Koketso(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Global competition and high customer expectations have forced manufacturing organizations to always consider ways in which they can be competitive, adaptive, and resilient in the face of change. Lean manufacturing is one ...
Schnetler, Henry Ignatius(University of Pretoria, 2022)
In South Africa during the last decade, the topic of Financial Service Providers (FSPs) has received significant attention from practitioners and associations, but limited academic literature exists on the topic. In 2012 ...
Inventory management is a crucial aspect of humanitarian operations. Various inventory models and policies have been developed over the years to improve the efficiency of humanitarian inventory management. These models ...
Ajayi, O.; De Vries, Marne(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2022-05-06)
Many service delivery performance assessment (SDPA) tools exist globally that address the need to measure actual performance against pre-defined standards and to take corrective action to improve service delivery. The ...
Consumer purchasing behaviour is influenced by many factors. Depending on the
circumstances, these factors may become relevant drivers of important supply chain decisions. Expiration dates have an influence on the purchasing ...
Ngwenya, Thabang; Ayomoh, Michael Kweneojo; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma(MDPI, 2022-09-14)
The field of mobile robot (MR) navigation with obstacle avoidance has largely focused on
real, physical obstacles as the sole external causative agent for navigation impediment. This paper has
explored the possible option ...