The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering  

Corne Schutte

“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.” - Malcolm XIndustrial Engineering in South Africa is relatively new, when compared to some of the other Engineering disciplines in South Africa. And, what makes it ... see more

Frank Sperotto

Guest Editorial, reflecting on the history of Industrial Engineering in South Africa.

Andries Heyns,Jan van Vuuren

A recent development within the MeerKAT sub-project of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope network was the placement of a network of three observation cameras in pursuit of two specific visibility objectives. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiv... see more

C Stein,Lee Wallis,Olufemi Adetunji

Response time is currently considered to be an important performance indicator in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems. A number of factors may affect response times, including the location of emergency vehicles and the type of response system design ... see more

Maria Creuza Borges de Araújo,Luciana Hazin Alencar

This paper puts forward a model for selecting suppliers and evaluating the performance of those already working with a company. A simulation was conducted in a food industry. This sector has high significance in the economy of Brazil. The model enables th... see more

Jiann-Jong Guo,Sang-Bing Tsai

Green supply-chain management is a novel idea that incorporates the concept of environmental protection into traditional supply-chain management in order to reduce environmental risks and impact. This study developed criteria for evaluating green supplier... see more

Denzil Kennon,Corne S. L. Schutte

Rare events, known as ‘Black Swans’, have determined the course of history. One of these was the global economic crisis of 2008. Such events highlight fields like strategic management and their shortcomings in helping to prepare organisations. The Strateg... see more

Willie Bouwer du Preez,Deon J De Beer

The Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa (RAPDASA) expressed the need for a national Additive Manufacturing Roadmap. Consequentially, the South African Department of Science and Technology commissioned the development of a South African A... see more

Thorsten Becker,Melody van Rooyen,Dimitri Dimitrov

LaserCUSING® is a selective laser melting (SLM) process that is capable of manufacturing parts by melting powder with heat input from a laser beam. LaserCUSING demonstrates potential for producing the intricate geometries specifically required for biomedi... see more

Jeffrey Malcolm Benson,Ettienne Snyders

The characteristics of powders used in additive manufacturing can have significant effects on process efficiencies and the quality of the final products. Powder sizes and morphologies need to be optimised for a particular process, and this requires the fa... see more

Yi-Lun Elaine Ho

This study provides a system dynamics (SD) model of make-to-order (MTO) production and discusses the key factors of production improvement. The proposed system can be divided into three subsystems: income/cost, order/production, and human resources (HR). ... see more

Pieter Daniel Conradie,Cornelius Fourie,Pieter Vlok,Nico Treurnicht

Die bestuur van fisiese bates het in die afgelope tyd al meer belangrik geword, veral in bate intensiewe organisasies. Hierdie artikel stel ’n metode voor wat die betroubaarheid van rollende materiaal bates in die spoor bedryf kwantifiseer deur gebruik te... see more

Mumuni Osumah Adamu,Aderemi Adewumi

This article considers the due window scheduling problem to minimise the number of early and tardy jobs on identical parallel machines. This problem is known to be NP complete and thus finding an optimal solution is unlikely. Three meta-heuristics and the... see more

Aytac Yildiz,A. Yesim Yayla

A firm’s multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) process is important because of its need to select and work with various suppliers. The process identifies the problems associated with selecting the supplier, , determining convenient criteria, expressing in... see more

Margarethe Coelho,Subhabrata Chakraborti,Marien Alet Graham

A carefully done Phase I analysis is a vital part of an overall statistical process control and monitoring regime. Distribution-free control charts can play a useful role in this analysis, as a parametric model assumption often cannot be adequately verifi... see more

Khaled Ali Alkhaledi

Vehicle fuel consumption and emission rates in Kuwait have increased considerably over recent decades, and are now causing health and economic problems. A three-lane smart roundabout is a new and innovative design idea that can help to mitigate these issu... see more

Duska Petar Pesic,Aleksandar Budimir Pesic,Slavko Trivun Ivkovic,Dejan Stojan Apostolovic

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a fuzzy approach to the quantification of the TOWS (Threats, Opportunities, Weaknesses, and Strengths) strategic concept (also known as ‘SWOT’). Fuzzy logic and triangular fuzzy numbers are used to provide an alte... see more