7 articles in this issue
Hendrik Steynberg,Pieter J. Conradie
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An underground coal mineis almosttotallymechanised today. One of the methods of extraction is pillar development with expensive resources that include continuous miners, shuttle cars, roof bolters, feeder breakers... see more
P.J. Pretorius
Industry and academia still have a major problem in grasping the extent and relationships ofall functions involved in integrated logistics. This is because business logistics and logistics engineering developed separately, each wit... see more
Dino Petrarolo
Organisations have over the years implemented many improvement initiatives, many of which were applied individually with no real, lasting improvement. Approaches such as quality control, team activities, setup reduction and many mo... see more
Johan Rottier
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A method is proposed by which the suitabilityof development capabilitiescan be evaluated for Enterprise design. The method is based on a model for development and models for various aspects of Enterprises. The ... see more
A.J. Lubbe
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: 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 pos... see more
Godfrey C. Onwubolu
The Taguchi methodology which may be applied as off-line quality control in the product design stage or, as on-line quality control during production is presented. As an off-line quality improvement strategy, it is a preventive mea... see more
A.C.J. Van Rensburg,S.J. Claasen
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Open Solution Methodology is a generic problem solving methodology which is used to solve system related problems through the application of problem solving techniques. The focus of the application of this met... see more