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  • The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards 
    Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1994-06)
    The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards are similar in nature to the National Productivity Awards, which are annually presented by the NPI, in recognition of outstanding achievements in productivity improvement. ...
  • Managing benchmarking in a corporate environment 
    Mouton, D.M.; Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    Most new generation organisations have management models and processes for measuring and managing organisational performance. However, the application of these models and the direction the company needs to take are not ...
  • Managing the cold chain : a case study at a South African ice cream company 
    Grobler, Jacomine; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-11)
    This paper documents the results of a supply chain management (SCM) case study conducted at Centurion Ice Cream and Sweets CC, a producer of ice cream in the greater Gauteng area. The current SCM environment was first ...
  • Manufacturing simulators 
    Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944-; Schutte, C.S.L. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1987-12)
    Simulation modelling has been identified as one of the most powerful techniques available for the analysis and design of complex manufacturing systems. A number of manufacturing simulators have been designed in an ...
  • Markovian modelling in business risk analysis 
    Bosman, Stephan; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1998)
    Risk analysis in a business context is largely intangible, allowing limited opportunity for the development of means by which the risk can be more securely assured, and in the long run, appropriately managed. This paper ...
  • A matching algorithm to study the evolution of logistics facilities extracted from GPS traces 
    Trent, Nadia M.; Joubert, Johannes Willem; Gidofalvi, Gyozo; Kordnejad, Behzad (Elsevier, 2020)
    The ubiquity of anonymous GPS data has opened the door to a promising data source in the field of city logistics modelling. From this data the locations of logistics facilities can be extracted and their evolution studied ...
  • Mathematical basis for three dimensional circular interpolation on CNC machines 
    Lubbe, Andre J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1997)
    The control units of numerically controlled manufacturing machines allow the programmer only a limited number of mathematical functions with which programmes can be written. Despite these limitations it is now possible ...
  • Max-EWMA chart for autocorrelated processes (MEWMAP chart) 
    Thaga, K.; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2007-11)
    This paper proposes an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart that is capable of detecting changes in both process mean and standard deviation for autocorrelated data (referred to as the Maximum ...
  • Measurement uncertainty in energy monitoring : present state of the art 
    Carstens, Herman; Xia, Xiaohua; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Elsevier, 2018-03)
    Measurement uncertainty is a key component in the overall uncertainty calculation for Measurement and Verification (M&V) projects. However, in some cases, it is reduced to outlier detection or basic uncertainty propagation ...
  • Metaheuristics for the multi-objective FJSP with sequence-dependent set-up times, auxiliary resources and machine down time 
    Grobler, Jacomine; Engelbrecht, Andries P.; Kok, Schalk; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Springer, 2009-01)
    This paper investigates the application of particle swarm optimization (PSO) to the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent set-up times, auxiliary resources and machine down time. To ...
  • A method to enhance existing business-IT alignment approaches 
    De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2013-08)
    Enterprise engineering has recently emerged as a new discipline to address the intensified complexity and dynamics of the evolving enterprise by designing, aligning, and governing its development. Enterprise designers ...
  • Minimising electricity costs by developing an effective combination of alternative energy sources 
    Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Steyl, J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2020-12)
    This study evaluates the high electricity costs faced at a carpet manufacturing company. Research was conducted by focusing on the supply and availability of electricity in South Africa and alternative energy sources. ...
  • Missie-analise en steunbaarheid 
    Kleinschmidt, Heinrich; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 1989-12)
    The concepts of mission analysis and supportability are considered from the first principles of processes and the interface between the two concepts are discussed.
  • A model to optimize payloads at PFG Building Glass 
    Brits, R.; Conradie, Pieter J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    While improving customer service by allowing user definable mixed load orders of their plate glass product, PFG Building Glass was confronted with a problem of calculating the feasibility and optimum load layout for ...
  • Modeling and characterizing software vulnerabilities 
    Bhatt, Navneet; Anand, Adarsh; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Kumar, Vijay (IJMEMS, India, 2017)
    With the association of software security assurance in the development of code based systems; software developers are relying on the Vulnerability discovery models to mitigate the breaches by estimating the total number ...
  • Modelling of a stochastic continuous system 
    Albertyn, Martin; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1998)
    The key objective is to develop a method which can be utilized to model a stochastic continuous system. A system from the "real world" is used as the basis for the simulation modelling technique that is presented. The ...
  • Modelling of uncertainty in minimising the cost of inventory for disaster relief 
    Van Wyk, Estelle; Bean, Willemiena Lodewika; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2011-05)
    Natural disasters - and even those caused by people - are largely unpredictable. So disasters need to be researched and their impact fully understood, so that the aid supplies required to ensure survival during and after ...
  • Modelling receiver logistics behaviour 
    Bean, Willemiena Lodewika; Joubert, Johannes Willem (Elsevier, 2019)
    There is a need for collaborative urban freight planning and appropriate decision and planning support tools are lacking, resulting in inadequate understanding of how urban freight agents should collaborate and what benefits ...
  • Modelling T4 cell count as a marker of HIV progression in the absence of any defense mechanism 
    Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Labeodan, Moremi Morire OreOluwapo; Udayabaskaran, Swaminathan; Forche, N. (Operations Research Society of SA, 2010-08)
    The T4 cell count, which is considered one of the markers of disease progression in an HIV infected individual, is modelled in this paper. The World Health Organisation has recently advocated that countries encourage HIV ...
  • The moderating effect of industry clockspeed on lean manufacturing implementation in Zimbabwe 
    Maware, Catherine; Adetunji, Olufemi (Emerald, 2019-12)
    PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to analyze the moderating impact of industry clockspeed (IC) on the relationship between Lean Manufacturing (LM) practices and operational performance. A model for evaluating the ...