Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Title

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  • Having a crack at bottle scuffing using agent-based mobility 
    Dempers, Clemens A.; Joubert, Johannes Willem (Elsevier, 2019)
    Recent advances in large-scale mobility models have shown that much system-level insight can be gained when modelling at the disaggregate, individual level. Although the focus is often on the movement of vehicles and/or ...
  • A hierarchical complementary Lean-Green model and its impact on operational performance of manufacturing organisations 
    Machingura, Tinotenda; Adetunji, Olufemi; Maware, Catherine (Emerald, 2024-01)
    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 ...
  • How integrated is integrated logistics? 
    Pretorius, Pieter J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1997)
    Industry and academia still have a major problem in grasping the extent and relationships of all functions involved in integrated logistics. This is because business logistics and logistics engineering developed separately, ...
  • Identification and prioritization of factors affecting the transition to renewables in developing economies 
    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 ...
  • Identifying scenarios to guide transformations from DEMO to BPMN 
    De Vries, Marne; Bork, Dominik (Springer, 2021-04)
    The heterogeneity in enterprise design stakeholders and models generally demands for consistent and efficient transformations of enterprise design knowledge between different conceptual modelling languages. A systematic ...
  • Illustrative examples of Expert Systems 
    Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 1989-06)
    The purpose of this paper is primarily to explore and illustrate the concepts and possible application areas of expert system technology, as well as the characteristics and features of some expert system development ...
  • The impact of preservation technology investments on lot-sizing and shipment strategies in a three-echelon food supply chain involving growing and deteriorating items 
    Sebatjane, Makoena (Elsevier, 2022-06-02)
    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 ...
  • Impact of vehicle automation and electric propulsion on production costs for mobility services worldwide 
    Becker, Henrik; Becker, Felix; Abe, Ryosuke; Bekhor, Shlomo; Belgiawan, Prawira F.; Compostella, Junia; Frazzoli, Emilio; Fulton, Lewis M.; Bicudo, Davi Guggisberg; Gurumurthy, Krishna Murthy; Hensher, David A.; Joubert, Johannes Willem; Kockelman, Kara M.; Kroger, Lars; Le Vine, Scott; Malik, Jai; Marczuk, Katarzyna; Nasution, Reza Ashari; Rich, Jeppe; Carrone, Andrea Papu; Shen, Danqi; Shiftan, Yoram; Tirachini, Alejandro; Wong, Yale Z.; Zhang, Mengmeng; Bosch, Patrick M.; Axhausen, Kay W. (Elsevier, 2020-08)
    Automated driving technology along with electric propulsion are widely expected to fundamentally change our transport systems. They may not only allow a more productive use of travel time, but will likely trigger completely ...
  • Implementation drivers for BPR at Siemens Telecommunications 
    Koorts, Casper-Cobus; Conradie, Pieter J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2000)
    With the embracing of new management philosophies or redesigned processes, it is becoming a popular opinion that often the practical problem lies with the implementation of the new concept, rather than with the concept ...
  • Improving active participation during enterprise operations modeling with an extended story-card-method and participative modeling software 
    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 ...
  • The industrial engineer as enterprise designer 
    Rottier, Johan (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1997)
    A method is proposed by which the suitability of development capabilities can be evaluated for Enterprise design. The method is based on a model for development and models for various aspects of Enterprises. The evaluation ...
  • Industrial engineering : rooting for roots, hankering for heroes 
    Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    The “roots” of Industrial Engineering are certainly extensive, diverse and deep. Similarly, there are numerous historical “heroes” that made significant contributions to the development of the Industrial Engineering ...
  • Inferring commercial vehicle activities in Gauteng, South Africa 
    Joubert, Johan W.; Axhausen, Kay W. (Elsevier, 2011-01)
    To address the underreporting of freight from a transport geography point of view, we present a novel analysis of the time and spatial characteristics of disaggregated commercial vehicle activities. The activities were ...
  • An integrated approach for modeling the electricity value of a sugarcane production system 
    Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious; De Vries, Marne; Mbohwa, Charles; Kumar, Dillip Das; Rogner, Holger (Elsevier, 2016-09)
    The spatial system dynamics model (SSDM) of sugarcane industrial ecosystem presented in this paper is towards an integrated approach to simulate a bio refinery system suggesting directions for bagasse and trash-derived ...
  • Integrated automotive manufacturing supply 
    Van Dyk, P.J.S.; Strasheim, J.J.; Van Schoor, Christiaan de Wet (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2005-11)
    Supply planning and traffic flow planning are major activities in the automotive manufacturing environment worldwide. Traditionally, the impact of supply planning strategies on plant traffic is rarely considered. This ...
  • An integrated optimization model for selection of sustainable suppliers based on customers’ expectations 
    Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Darbari, Jyoti Dhingra; Bhayana, Nidhi; Jha, P.C.; Agarwal, Vernika (Elsevier, 2019)
    Due to intensification of market competence and customers increasing socio-environmental concerns, sustainability has become a focal point for most organizations. Thus incorporation of customer sustainable expectations into ...
  • An investigation into factors impacting financial exclusion at the bottom of the pyramid in South Africa 
    Wentzel, John Peter; Diatha, Krishna Sundar; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Routledge, 2016-02)
    Financial exclusion has been shown to have negative socioeconomic effects on citizens, especially at the bottom of the economic pyramid. South Africa suffers from high levels of financial exclusion, disproportionately ...
  • Jumping the curve 
    Pellissier, Rene; Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 1999)
    This paper explores the notion of jumping the curve,following from Handy 's S-curve onto a new curve with new rules policies and procedures. It claims that the curve does not generally lie in wait but has to be invented ...
  • Key capability areas for change in collaborative initiatives 
    Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2006-11)
    Technology has brought major challenges as to how organisations view global markets and customers, and how they operate within their industry value chains. The impact of technology has exposed participants in the market ...
  • Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search 
    Brown, Peter; Joubert, Johannes Willem; Zhou, Yaoqi; RELISH Consortium (Oxford University Press, 2019-10)
    Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that ...