15 articles in this issue
A.C. Janse van Rensburg
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The Porter Value Chain has been widely adopted by the business community as a mechanism to understand and comprehend complexity in business environments, with the ultimate goal of structuring the business to maximize its... see more
J. Grobler,V.S.S. Yadavalli
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: 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 a... see more
V.G. Twala,T. Auf der Heyde,P.J. Bredell,L. Pretorius
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The search for consensus on spent fuel management (SFM) strategies in the nuclear industry has become complex, not least in the South African context. This study identifies three SFM options: reprocessing-and-recycling,... see more
J.J. Viviers,J.K. Visser
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many companies in South Africa have implemented the risk-based inspection (RBI) methodology as a maintenance strategy. The risk involved in operating a piece of equipment, past history, non-destructive examination ... see more
A.J. Le Roux,C.C. Van Waveren
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The balance between risk and reward is the very essence of business, and companies take risks in order to generate returns. Eskom, the electricity utility in South Africa, endeavors to construct networks that are reliab... see more
H.K. Grover,M.W. Pretorius
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:South Africa is currently in the grip of a severe power supply capacity constraint. January 2007 saw blackouts throughout the country, and worse was expected in the months to come. As a measure of immediate remedy Eskom ... see more
K. Mazlumi,A. Askarian Abyaneh
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mechanical equipment used on process plants can be categorised into two main types, namely static and rotating equipment. A brief survey at a number of chemical process plants indicated that a number of maintenance stra... see more
S. Gupta,P.C. Tewari,A.K. Sharma
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present paper discusses the performance modeling and decision support system for a feed water unit of a thermal power plant using the concept of performance analysis and modeling. A feed water unit ensures a proper ... see more
R.P. Botha,H. Steyn
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Owing to ever-increasing business pressures and the resulting requirements of organisations, individual projects rarely fulfil all expectations; so it is quite often necessary to implement a programme of interdependent ... see more
P.K. Dan
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research presents a methodology for determining the optimal location of a new facility, having physical flow interaction of various degrees with other existing facilities in the presence of barriers impeding the sh... see more
K.S. Johnston,J.E. Amadi-Echendu
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Specifications translated from user requirements are prescribed in an attempt to capture and incorporate best practices with regards to the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of pressure vessels. The question a... see more
A.K. Pandey,A.C. Brent
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Environmental degradation is a burgeoning problem owing to the continual expansion of industrial production, and high-levels of energy and material consumption associated with economic growth. Cleaner Production (CP) is... see more
E. O. Oyetunji,A. E. Oluleye
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper considers the problem of minimizing the number of tardy jobs with release time on a single machine. Given that the problem has been classified as strongly NP-Hard, three heuristics (EOO, HR2, and HR3) are pro... see more
A.D. Adeyeye,O.E. Charles-Owaba
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The GP model was developed for production planning in a toothpaste factory. Two objectives were distinguished: minimization of processing cost, and maximization of the capacity utilization of production facilities. Two ... see more
A.D. Kahlen
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Opportunities to improve production processes and access to markets through the implementation of lean manufacturing in biomedical manufacturing are presented. The importance of a unified definition of manufacturing, to... see more