The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering  

H. Dastkhan,H. Dastkhan

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Industrial engineering is an engineering discipline which, because of its multi-disciplinary nature, has played an important role in the development and optimization of different systems at macro and micro levels.... see more

A. Pouris

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article aims to identify and analyse the inventive activity of South Africans as it is manifested in the form of patents. Patents are used internationally as indicators of national and corporate inventive activity,... see more

M. De Vries,A.C.J. Van Rensburg

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a new discipline that has emerged from the need to create a holistic view of an enterprise, and thereby to discover business/IT integration and alignment opportunities across enterprise ... see more

C.O. Anyaeche,A.E. Oluleye

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many productivity models evaluate either the input or the output performances using standalone techniques. This sometimes gives divergent views of the same systems results. The work reported in this article, which ... see more

Y.A. Mwanga,J.W. Joubert,V.S.S Yadavalli

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is reasonable to expect that preparation time is needed to ready a repair facility before a repair can be carried out. A three-unit system with a `preparation time for the repair facility is studied in this paper. Th... see more

S.M.T. Fatemi Ghomi,N. Azad

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In traditional supply chain inventory management, orders are the only information firms exchange, but information technology now allows firms to share demand and inventory data quickly and inexpensively. To have an inte... see more

J.K. Visser,J. Jordaan

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

H.K. Mittermaier,H. Steyn

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite the current economic climate, the South African mining and engineering industry is experiencing a very promising future, with a large number of capital projects in the offing. It is inevitable that pilot plant d... see more

J.S. Gnanasekaran,S. Shanmugasundaram

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Logistics engineering can be divided into internal or in-plant logistics and external manufacturing logistics. Internal (in-plant) logistics include material handling, warehousing, and storage systems, while external ... see more