Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Title

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  • Efficient longitudinal population survival survey sampling for the measurement and verification of lighting retrofit projects 
    Carstens, Herman; Xia, Xiaohua; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Rajan, Arvind (Elsevier, 2017-09)
    A method is presented for reducing the required sample sizes for reporting energy savings with predetermined statistical accuracy in lighting retrofit measurement and verification projects, where the population of retrofitted ...
  • Empirical evaluation of a new DEMO modelling tool that facilitates model transformations 
    Gray, Thomas; De Vries, Marne (International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2020-11)
    The engineering methodology for organizations (DEMO) incorporates an organization construction diagram (OCD) and transaction product table (TPT) to depict a consolidated representation of the enterprise in terms of ...
  • Enhancing customer experience through business process improvement : an application of the Enhanced Customer Experience Framework (ECEF) 
    Botha, G.J. (Gesina Jozina); Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944-; De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2012-05)
    In 2010 Botha, Kruger & De Vries [5] introduced a framework for enhancing customer experience through improved business processes. They developed the Enhanced Customer Experience Framework (ECEF) by integrating various ...
  • Enterprise architecture – new business value perspective 
    De Vries, Marne; Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-05)
    Organisations today are characterised by conglomerate organisation structures that evolve through mergers and acquisitions. Corporate offices need to add superior knowledge and skills to ensure that the collection of ...
  • Enterprise resource planning solution selection criteria in medium-sized South African companies 
    Malie, M.; Duffy, N.; Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-05)
    The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that medium-sized South African companies consider important in the acquisition of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. Through an extensive literature review, ...
  • An enterprise-engineering based approach to develop enterprise capacity 
    De Boer, Andreas; De Vries, Marne (Springer, 2021-04)
    Significant progress has been made in the South-African early childhood and Grade R spheres. However, South-Africa has a long way to go to meet the needs of majority of its children. Institutional capacity (IC) refers to ...
  • An environment-dependent branching process 
    Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Karthikeyan, T.; Udayabaskaran, Swaminathan (South African Statistical Association, 2010-12)
    A mathematical model of a biological population, taking into account the effect of environmental in uences both on the life-time distribution and on the reproductive capacity of the individuals of the population, ...
  • Evaluating and refining the 'enterprise architecture as strategy' approach and artefacts 
    De Vries, Marne; Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2009-05)
    Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a new discipline that has emerged from the need to create a holistic view of an enterprise, and thereby to discover business/IT integration and alignment opportunities across enterprise ...
  • Evaluating or selecting a suitable information system development methodology : a case study 
    De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2004-11)
    Information system development methodologies have been applied by numerous organisations since the mid-1980s in an attempt to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of designing and developing new information systems. ...
  • Evaluation of the cost drivers and allocation framework in outbound logistics of the fast-moving consumer goods industry 
    Van Niekerk, Henk Johannes; Bean, Willemiena Lodewika (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2019-08-30)
    The fast-moving consumer goods industry is a complex trading environment, with many companies experimenting with various ways to increase profit. Outbound logistics, as an integrated concept within supply chain management, ...
  • Expert systems: an Industrial Engineering perspective 
    Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (1989-06)
    The purpose and scope of this paper may be summarized as follows: An attempt to make the Industrial Engineering community aware of the existence and potential benefits of Expert Systems technology, providing a superficial ...
  • Exploring enhancements to the agile approach for mid-sized enterprises in the services sector 
    Fourie, Lyndall; De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017-11-22)
    Companies need to thrive in a dynamic environment, responding to it in an agile way. Within a company’s ICT domain, a key to achieving agility is to use agile software development. Experience, together with a literature ...
  • Exploring the future of enterprise architecture : a Zachman perspective 
    Lapalme, James; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta; Zachman, John; De Vries, Marne; Hinkelmann, Knut (Elsevier, 2016-06)
    Today, and for the foreseeable future, organizations will face ever-increasing levels of complexity and uncertainty. Many believe that enterprise architecture (EA) will help organizations address such difficult terrain ...
  • An extended farm site development method 
    Hanekom, Eugene; Liebenberg, Andre; De Vries, Marne (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-09)
    The inefficient and ineffective use of arable land in South Africa is one of the numerous challenges within its agricultural sector. Previous research has indicated that a method, the Farm Site Development Method (FSDM), ...
  • A farm site development method : creating a roadmap towards site saturation 
    Van der Merwe, R.E.; Liebenberg, A.; De Vries, Marne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2014-11)
    Agricultural engineering applies existing knowledge to provide for humanity’s greatest need: food for survival. This article presents an opportunity to augment existing agricultural engineering practices with industrial ...
  • A finite source perishable inventory system with second optional service and server interruptions 
    Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Jeganathan, K. (Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2016)
    In this article, a service facility inventory system with server interruptions and a nite number of sources are considered. The inventory is replenished according to (s; S) ordering policy. Using the matrix methods, the ...
  • Flexible software reliability growth models 
    Kapur, P.K.; Gupta, A.; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Claasen, S.J. (Schalk Johannes) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2006-11)
    Numerous Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) have been discussed in the literature. These models are used to predict fault content and reliability of software. It has been observed that the relationship between ...
  • A four-echelon supply chain inventory model for growing items with imperfect quality and errors in quality inspection 
    Sebatjane, Makoena; Adetunji, Olufemi (Springer, 2023-07-11)
    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, ...
  • A framework for good governance in project management in South Africa 
    Maharaj, Karishma; Heil, D.; Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2006-11)
    In the context of predicted positive economic growth in South Africa for the next three years, the economic landscape could well be characterised by a growth in investment in South Africa. Some of the investment will be ...
  • A framework for the implementation of e-procurement 
    Jooste, M.V.; Van Schoor, Christiaan de Wet (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2003)
    e-Procurement is a sound solution for companies to initiate e-business initiatives since it promises several distinct benefits, such as process cost and lead time reduction, improving strategic sourcing of commodities and ...