Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Title

Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Title

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  • 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 ...
  • Large-scale agent-based combined traffic simulation of private cars and commercial vehicles 
    Joubert, Johan W.; Fourie, P.J. (Pieter Jacobus); Axhausen, Kay W. (National Academy of Sciences, 2010-11)
    The number of independent and interdependent freight actors (firms), the complex supply chain structures among them, and the sensitivity of shipment data are but a few reasons why modeling freight traffic is lagging its ...
  • Lean impact analysis assessment models : development of a lean measurement structural model 
    Maware, Catherine; Adetunji, Olufemi (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2018)
    The paper is aimed at developing a model to measure the impact of Lean manufacturing deployment on organizational performance. The model will help industry practitioners to assess the impact of implementing Lean constructs ...
  • Lean manufacturing implementation in Zimbabwean industries : impact on operational performance 
    Maware, Catherine; Adetunji, Olufemi (Sage, 2019-06)
    The impact of Lean Manufacturing (LM) implementation on organizational performance is an ongoing discussion. The effect of implementing LM tools on operational performance across various industries in Zimbabwe, a country ...
  • Learning management systems : engineering the education industry to educate the industrial engineer 
    Van Dyk, Liezl (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    A learning management system (LMS) is any infrastructure on which e-learning can be built and delivered. In this article two sides of the LMS coin are investigated: On the one side, it is argued that industrial and systems ...
  • A lot-sizing model for a multi-state system with deteriorating items, variable production rate, and imperfect quality 
    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 ...
  • Low-cost energy meter calibration method for measurement and verification 
    Carstens, Herman; Xia, Xiaohua; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Elsevier, 2017-02)
    Energy meters need to be calibrated for use in Measurement and Verification (M&V) projects. However, calibration can be prohibitively expensive and a ect project feasibility negatively. This study presents a novel low-cost ...
  • 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. ...