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Volume 20 Number 2 Year 2009

16 articles in this issue 

K A Charles,C E Cloete

The paper examines the use of private security organisations in a peacekeeping role as a cost-effective and efficient alternative to United Nations (UN) peacekeepers, and develops an outsourcing scorecard for the UN. Forty national and international organ... see more

 

N J Schoeman,Y Van Heerden

This article is primarily concerned with assessing the optimum rate of governmentintervention by means of tax revenue policies that would facilitate the full growth potentialof the South African economy, using time series data for the period 1960 to 2007.... see more

 

M L Barry,Herman Steyn,Alan C Brent

The supply of sustainable energy is crucial for sustainable development in Africa. The aimof the study summarised in this paper is the identification, and prioritisation, of the factorsthat must be taken into account when selecting the most sustainable te... see more

 

KYA Chan,LAG Oerlemans,MW Pretorius

In the recent past, several researchers explored the added-values of Science Parks. On thebasis of empirical research, some questioned the assumed benefits of the science parkmodel, whereas others reported positive outcomes. As a result, mixed findings re... see more

 

FH Lubbe,AC Brent

International technology transfer (ITT) processes are complex, risky, and often fail. Whenfinancial services organisations have the opportunity to transfer their business model andcore technologies to a foreign market, comprehensive research into the tech... see more

 

MC Bekker,Herman Steyn

Over the past decade corporate governance has received ample attention. Lately theprinciples of governance have been applied to other management disciplines, especiallyproject management. The evolution of the concept of project governance resulted invario... see more

 

P Erasmus,CC Van Waveren

This article evaluates the influence that quality concepts and tools in a manufacturingenvironment may have on parameters possibly affecting the future design and developmentof products in the same company. It attempts to establish how quality results can... see more

 

K Thaga

Standard control charts with control limits determined by the mean and standard error ofthe mean are constructed based on the assumption that the distribution of the qualitycharacteristic being monitored follows a normal distribution. However, this assump... see more

 

MH Abooie,M Amin Nayeri

The paper proposes an efficient approach to detecting an increase in the fraction of nonconformingitems. The novelty of the paper is its utilization of the concept of the Bayesianrule and construction of a Bayesian control chart. This approach is signific... see more

 

J Padayachee,G Bright,I Masekamela

The reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) paradigm encapsulates methodologies thatenable manufacturing systems to cope effectively with market and product changes. Thisresearch presents the design and evaluation of modular reconfigurable machine (MRM)... see more

 

V Mancapa,TI Van Niekerk,T Hua

Cutting and packing problems are combinatorial optimisation problems. In mostmanufacturing situations a raw material, usually in some standard size, has to be divided orcut into smaller items to complete the production of some product. It is therefore des... see more

 

WY Wu,CC Bai,OK Gupta

With service industries achieving almost 70% of GDP, Taiwan has witnessed a major shift inits economic structure, similar to the trends that have been observed elsewhere. The retailsector has shown enormous growth, and Taiwan has seen tremendous growth in... see more

 

M du Preez,T Lottering

This paper investigates the economic efficiency of extending an existing cable wasterecycling plant to accommodate the recycling of the plastic fraction of cable waste. Thepaper shows that when a cost benefit analysis (CBA) is carried out, the decision-ma... see more

 

GA Oosthuizen,HJ Joubert,NF Treurnicht

This paper proposes the application of precision pallet technology, together with common3-axis milling, to machine certain complex aerospace components that are normally 5-axismachined. In this approach a set of different customised precision pallets are ... see more

 

D Krige,James Bekker,Cornelius Schutte

Scheduling is a core activity in the manufacturing business. It assists with the efficient andeffective utilisation of capital-intensive resources and increased throughput, thusincreasing profitability. Simulation is appealing in manufacturing, as it can ... see more

 

A Ahmadi Javid,H Davoudpour

This paper studies a new continuous single facility location problem. In this problem thelocations of the customers (or the previously located facilities) vary, randomly, and theobjective is to locate a new facility so as to maximise the mean service leve... see more