11 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
"Begin now to do something that has long been a dream, something that makes you approach each new day as a journey to accomplish what you want and desire.”- Byron PulsiferIn the editorial of the first edition of 2020, I referred to the Spanish Flu, and th... see more
S Ramesh,N Arunkumar,R Vijayaraj
This mathematical model forms machine cells, optimises the costs of unassigned machines and components, and designs the shop floor cell layout to have minimal movement of materials. The complete similarity measure algorithm forms machine cells and part fa... see more
Dieter Hartmann,John Bicheno,Bruno Emwanu,Teresa Sharon Hattingh
The load on health systems caused by systemic overburden leads to heightened costs, longer waiting times, a reduced quality of care, andassociated problems. This may be caused by ’failure demand’; however, its definition is inadequate for a complex h... see more
Hamieda Parker,Stephanie Elaine Appel
As ever-increasing advances in automation and artificial intelligence solutions create more opportunities for businesses to streamline their operations, the key challenges for managers are to identify the appropriate use cases for automation solutions in ... see more
Oscar Cruz-Domínguez,Omar-Alejandro Guirette-Barbosa,Jose-Luis Carrera-Escobedo,Hector-Antonio Duran-Muñoz,Cesar-Humberto Guzman-Valdivia,Edgar-Augusto Ruelas-Santoyo
This paper proposes an objective way to identify the necessary processes of a quality management system (QMS) to enhance customer satisfaction by meeting customer requirements (CRs). This quality function deployment (QFD)-based method helps to address the... see more
Jeremiah S Travern,Sugandren Naidoo,Amendra Rajcoomar
Organisations implementing homogeneous and intellectual resource organisational capabilities, such as innovation (INNO) and knowledge management capability (KMC), suffer from organisational capability inefficiencies that are caused by multiple influences.... see more
Junghun Lee,Kyungdoh Kim
Joystick controllers are used mainly for modern civil drones. However, joystick controllers are non-intuitive and require two hands to be used simultaneously. Therefore, although single-handed drone controllers using a joystick and hand gestures have been... see more
Petrus Tshotleho Letaba,Sunday Zulu
A 30-year technology roadmap for the South African ferrochrome industry is developed to address the increasing cost of electricity and competition from China. Research on possible technologies and their applicability in ferrochrome smelting is conducted, ... see more
Oludolapo Akanni Olanrewaju
The activities of the building and construction industry have made it one of the highest energy consumers and thus one of the highest emitters of greenhouse gases. The main objective of this study was to develop a system to determine energy saving in the ... see more
Fabio Comer,Josefa Mula,Manuel Díaz-Madroñero,Hanzel Grillo
The internationalisation of the manufacturing operations process includes decision-making about new facility implementation (NFI) and global supplier network development (GSND), whose first step is to analyse the situation of a company and its environment... see more
Mohamed Abdelkhalek Attia Negmeldin,Mahmoud Heshmat,Amr Eltawil
In this paper, a system dynamics approach is introduced for the macro- planning of the selection of new product families in the consumer electronics industry in developing countries. A decision methodology structure is built that includes the impact facto... see more