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  • Decision support in supply chain management for disaster relief in Somalia 
    Van Wyk, Estelle; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Carstens, Herman (Springer, 2013)
    Somalia, a country situated in Eastern Africa has been struggling between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine. Diseases have resulted to the deaths of up to millions of people. According to a New York Times ...
  • A decision support model for the cash replenishment process in South African retail banking 
    Adendorff, S.A. (Susan Aletta), 1961-; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2000)
    A scientifically-based decision-making procedure for determining the amount of cash to be held at a cash point of a retail bank at any time without compromising customer service levels or incurring undue cost was developed. ...
  • Demand forecasting for motor vehicle spare parts 
    Strasheim, J.J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1992-12)
    Reordering motor vehicle spare parts for the purposes of stock replenishment is an important function of the parts manager in the typical motor dealership. Meaningful reordering requires a reliable forecast of the future ...
  • DEMO and the story-card method : requirements elicitation for agile software development at scale 
    De Vries, Marne (Springer, 2018-10)
    Enterprises of today are faced with rapidly changing technologies and customer needs within unpredictable environments that require a new mindset for creating an agile enterprise. Agile practices gained momentum within ...
  • Demonstrating the elaborated action design research (eADR) model to address communication challenges during software development 
    Venter, Anthea; De Vries, Marne (Springer, 2023-06)
    Communication is a powerful, universal, everyday activity that impacts many, if not all, aspects of our lives. The importance and complexities of communication are however still often overlooked. Inadequate communication ...
  • Density forecasting for long-term electricity demand in South Africa using quantile regression 
    Mokilane, Paul; Galpin, Jacky; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Debba, Provesh; Koen, Renee; Sibiya, Siphamandla (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2018-03-27)
    BACKGROUND : This study involves forecasting electricity demand for long-term planning purposes. Long-term forecasts for hourly electricity demands from 2006 to 2023 are done with in-sample forecasts from 2006 to 2012 ...
  • The design of a simulation generator 
    Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1993-12)
    Successful simulation studies depend on a variety of expertise such as statistics, computer programming, systems analysis and design techniques. Unfortunately these requirements limit the availability of competent simulation ...
  • Designing, modelling and optimising of an integrated reliability redundant system 
    Sankaraiah, G.; Sarma, B.D.; Umasankar, C.; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2011)
    The reliability of a system is generally treated as a function of cost; but in many real-life situations reliability will depend on a variety of factors. It is therefore interesting to probe the hidden impact of constraints ...
  • The development and evaluation of a prototype cell phone controlled robotic system 
    Lubbe, Andre J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2005-11)
    New cell phone technology offers the possibility to implement long distance control of robotic systems, although cell phones were not developed for control purposes but rather for communication. In this publication it is ...
  • Development and testing of a wireless controlled car using the internet as communication medium 
    Lubbe, Andre J.; Kluge, P. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-05)
    Recent innovations in wireless networking technology have brought low cost, high bandwidth and low latency communication to the consumer. Apart from the standard use of connecting computers to the Internet, the new wireless ...
  • The development of a computer driver jigsaw 
    Lubbe, Andre J.; Raath, H. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    With a jigsaw, sharp inside corners can only be sawn out if the blade of the jigsaw is lifted out of the material and the corner is approached from two different sides. For the blade to be able to re-enter the material no ...
  • The development of a laser based local positioning system 
    Lubbe, Andre J.; Buhrmann, T. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2001)
    There is no cheap, accurate device available with which the position of a slow moving object , such as a lawnmower cutting lawn, can be determined. If such a positioning system were available it would be possible to ...
  • Development of a map-matching algorithm for dynamic-sampling-rate GPS signals to determine vehicle routes on a MATSim network 
    Vosloo, Jaco-Ben; Joubert, Johannes Willem (Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2019)
    The rapid development and proliferation of global positioning system (GPS)-enabled systems and devices have led to a signi cant increase in the availability of transport data, more speci cally GPS trajectories, that can ...
  • The development of a robust risk management plan for the continuous supply of water to hospitals in the Western Cape Province 
    Dippenaar, A.; Bezuidenhout, S.T. (Saija) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2019-08-30)
    The objective of this research is to develop a robust water supply risk management and response plan for Somerset Hospital that reflects the institution’s specific requirements, and to prepare general guidelines for the ...
  • The development of a strategic industrial engineering philosophy 
    Leonard, Pierre; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944-; Moll, C.M. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2006-05)
    The proposed expansion of the Industrial Engineering discipline, termed Strategic Industrial Engineering, holds that scientific industrial engineering knowledge may be applied to capitalistic systems with the strategic ...
  • Development of a tool cost optimization model for stochastic demand of machined products 
    Pantoja, Francisco G.; Songmene, Victor; Kenne, Jean-Pierre; Olufayo, Oluwole A.; Ayomoh, Michael Kweneojo (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-12-28)
    Cutting tool management in manufacturing firms constitutes an essential element in production cost optimization. In order to optimize the cutting tool stock level while concurrently minimizing production costs, a cost ...
  • Diagnostic assessment of service delivery health in South Africa : a systematic literature review 
    Ajayi, Oluyomi; De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2019-05-29)
    Access to cost-effective, high-quality and speedy public services is a legitimate requirement and expectation of all South Africans. However, despite massive increases in successive budgets and grants to the public sector, ...
  • Distributed control architecture of an omni-directional autonomous guided vehicle 
    Tlale, Nkgatho S. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2005-11)
    Omni-directionality is the ability of a mobile robot to move instantaneously in any direction. This paper describes the wheel and controller designs of a Mecanumwheeled, autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) for reconfigurable ...
  • Dynamical industrial systems 
    Adendorff, Kris (Kristian) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    There is widespread evidence that industrial systems do not consistently perform in a stable fashion regardless of how diligently they have been designed and operated. Operation of a system is often in a dynamic sense ...
  • Economic order quantity model for growing items with incremental quantity discounts 
    Sebatjane, Makoena; Adetunji, Olufemi (SpringerOpen, 2019-12)
    Certain inventory items are living organisms, for example livestock, and are therefore capable of growing during the replenishment cycle. These items often serve as various saleable food items downstream in supply chains. ...