17 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”- Samuel JohnsonA year ago, in May 2020, we issued our first COVID lockdown edition during very uncertain times. We were then subjected to lockdown regulations that forced us all to work from... see more
K Srimathi,K Narashiman
The study aims to investigate the impact of different leadership styles on the Lean Six Sigma practices of manufacturing and service industries in India. In this study, the relationships between different leadership styles and Lean Six Sigma practice... see more
Wessel Pienaar
The article deals with the preferred approach to determine the cost component in the social cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) of road projects in South Africa. The article is in four parts. The first part, the introduction, provides the reasons why investment ... see more
Darryl James Summers,Jacobus Krige Visser
The success rate of outsourcing in South Africa is fairly low. Companies that make the incorrect decision to outsource maintenance place themselves at risk of poor maintenance performance, a high operational cost of maintenance, and substantial costs to r... see more
Anje Marjorie Anderson,Andre Van der Merwe
Many businesses in the additive manufacturing industry have limited equipment capacity. This method of using time-driven activity-based costing in collaboration with digital twinning will be advantageous to optimise their use of time and their capacity. O... see more
G Rajesh,R Raju
A company embracing an agile strategy to win business must increase its agility and that of its strategic suppliers. Segmentation is an important tool for selecting suppliers that can be developed. This paper addresses the challenge of selecting suppliers... see more
Clydene Emmanual Reddy,Jared Padayachee,Glen Bright
Advanced robotic systems are an Industry 4.0 enabler in smart factories. Industrial robotic manipulators require an end-effector to perform tasks. The purpose of this study was to research and develop a reconfigurable robotic end-effector for machining an... see more
Jaemoon Sim,Yonghwan Yim,Kyungdoh Kim
With the advent of touchscreen-based smart devices, several studies on the usability of the stylus, a typical touchscreen input method, have been conducted. However, usability studies that simply focus on completing tasks are not suitable for investigatin... see more
Fatemeh Hosseininezhad,Ahmad Makui,Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
Road accidents, as one of the causes of mortality in human societies, have many adverse social and economic consequences. Various measures can improve the safety of travel. One of them is to find appropriate location of relief infrastructures. The proper ... see more
Ping-Hsin Fan,Wei-Lun Chang
To achieve sustainable growth and maintain competitive advantages, many companies consider the sustainability of society and the environment, and adopt the business excellence (BE) framework of quality awards to promote total quality management (TQM) acti... see more
Corro van Waveren,Leon Oerlemans,Tinus Pretorius
Before any acquired knowledge is used or adds value to the receiving project (members), it must be accepted by its recipients, leading to an increase in their positive attitudes towards, and intended use of, the acquired knowledge. To be willing to accept... see more
Wesley Emile Dharmalingum,Jared Padayachee,Glen Bright
This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel five degrees-of- freedom (DOF) parallel kinematic manipulator (PKM) for part-handling, sorting, general positioning, and robotic machining applications. The 2- R(Pa-IQ)RR, R(Pa-IQ)R manipulator has tw... see more
Duncan William Gibbons,Andre Francois van der Merwe
This study aims to develop a conceptual framework for the certification of laser powder bed fusion quality management systems for aerospace applications. This research is structured around industry standards and best practices. The developed framework con... see more
Rajesh B Menon,P R Shalij,P Sajeesh,Geemon Tom,V R Pramod
The development of cost-integrated value-stream mapping (CVSM) as a lean assessment tool for identifying wastage in the production process is presented in this article. In conventional VSM, the time involved in various processes is mapped without tracking... see more
Alptekin Ulutas
Enterprises need to work with a proper third-party logistics provider to reduce costs and increase their logistics performance; so the third-party logistics (3PL) provider selection problem is a significant one for them. In this study, grey step-wise weig... see more
Abel Jhamba,Herman Steyn
Effective knowledge transfer is essential in obtaining a competitive advantage. In a project environment, knowledge transfer occurs across different boundaries and involves different stakeholders — a topic much neglected in the literature. This ... see more
Ntebaleng S Matshabaphala,Jacomine Grobler
Over 3 000 Mozambican smallholder farmers supply cassava to Company XYZ. XYZ needs an effective supplier segmentation method to gain insight into how it should direct its resources for the greatest impact. This paper describes the application of the ... see more