Designers may introduce a system with multiple technologies in series to improve system efficiency.
The configuration can be applied to k out of n systems if each technology contains k out of n factors.
The k out of n ...
PURPOSE :
The objective of the study is to explore the mediatory role of the environmental performance of organisations on their economic and social performances. It demonstrates that implementing environmental management ...
Many cities plan to grow cycling as a prominent mode to improve accessibility and environmental and financial sustainability. However, relatively few cities have made meaningful headway in this direction. Policymakers would ...
Ibrahim, Hanif Auwal; Ayomoh, Michael; Bansal, Ramesh C.; Gitau, Michael Njoroge; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Naidoo, Raj(Elsevier, 2023-05)
With affordable and clean energy being one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG7), most developing
economies are still caught up with the dilemma of inadequate power supply and heavy dependence on fossil fuel.
This ...
Venter, Anthea; De Vries, Marne(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2023-11-17)
Participatory modelling (PM) is focused on actively involving enterprise stakeholders and modelling experts in the modelling process. Typically, participants are co-located and encouraged to collaborate to avoid conceptual ...
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 ...
Technological advancements, globalization, and the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed digital communication into a central tenet of many project management virtual teams (VTs). However, successful VTs are dependent on ...
PURPOSE : This study aims to comparatively discuss the effect of lean manufacturing (LM) implementation in the manufacturing sectors of developing and developed countries.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : An in-depth literature ...
Trent, Nadia M.; Joubert, Johan W.(Elsevier, 2022-05)
Logistics sprawl has been observed in many urban areas around the world, but the assumed link between increased logistics sprawl and increased freight transport activity has little empirical evidence. Because this link ...
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 ...