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Volume 14 Number 1 Year 2003

11 articles in this issue 

R. Brits,P.J. Conradie

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While improving customer service by allowing user definable mixed load orders of their plate glass product, PFG Building Glass was confronted with a problem of calculating the feasibility and optimum load layout for transporting the glas... see more

 

J. Yadavalli,C. Hargreaves

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this paper, we study a two-component continuous review inventory system. We assume that demand occurs according to a Poisson process and that a demand can be satisfied only if both the components are available in the inventory. Back-o... see more

 

J. Yadavalli,S.J. Claasen,N. Singh

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In practice, there are many quality control situations where a product under consideration may have two or more interrelated quality characteristics and observations of each characteristic are serially correlated. One of the objectives o... see more

 

P.S. Kruger

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is the contention of the author that practising the art of modelling has been, and always will be, of great importance to the ultimate success of any project employing a simulation approach. Yet very few publications address this aspe... see more

 

K. Garg,R.J.O. Joubert,R. Pellissier

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a conceptual model termed "IS environmental alignment" that focuses on the support provided by IS strategy to minimize the gap between perceived environmental uncertainty and realized/objective environmental condition... see more

 

J. Sevitz,A.C. Brent,A.B. Fourie

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conventional consumer carrier bags have recently received considerable attention in South Africa. The choice of material for these bags, based on environmental preferences in the South African context, could significantly influence t... see more

 

J.K. Visser,M.W. Pretorius

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Business enterprises are under increasing pressure to become internationally competitive due to globalisation. World-class companies from abroad can now easily compete with local companies, introducing high quality products and services ... see more

 

L. Ma,A.J. Buys

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sasol is predominantly an energy-based company. The energy industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation that may have a profound impact on Sasols overall business. This study has been carried out to investigate the need to establi... see more

 

R. Oosthuizen,A.J. Buys

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Technology commercialisation is the process that converts technology that was developed for the government, e.g., defence technology, to commercial use, thereby benefiting the wider community. As technology commercialisation is a high ris... see more

 

A.J. Lubbe,H. Raath

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With a jigsaw, sharp inside corners can only be sawn out if the blade of the jigsaw is lifted out of the material and the corner is approached from two different sides. For the blade to be ableto re-enter the material no material must be... see more

 

L. Van Dyk

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: 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 engineering sk... see more