Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Title

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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...