16 articles in this issue
Cornelius Schutte
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Dzivhuluwani Simon Mungani,Jacobus Krige Visser
Various production methods are used in industry to manufacture or produce a variety of products needed by industry and consumers. The nature of a product determines which production method is most suitable or cost-effective. A continuous process is typica... see more
Yi-Chan Chung
This study probes the correlation of types of operational strategy, degrees of organisational learning, types of organisational culture, the degree of the application of e-commerce, and operational performance among high-tech firms in Taiwan. The data was... see more
Tang Sai Hong,Pah Pin Shang,Manohar Arumugam,Rosnah Mohd Yusuff
The increasing demand for outpatient services has led to overcrowded clinics, long waiting times for patients, and extended staff working hours in outpatient clinics. Simulation tools have been used to ameliorate deficiencies in the appointment system, re... see more
Jared Padayachee,G Bright
The economical production of mass customised and high variety goods is a challenge facing modern manufacturers. This challenge is being addressed, in part, by the on-going development of technologies that facilitate the manufacturing of these goods. Exist... see more
Michael B.C. Khoo,M.H. Lee,W.L. Teoh,J.Y. Liew,S.Y. Teh
The double sampling (DS) X bar chart, one of the most widely-used charting methods, is superior for detecting small and moderate shifts in the process mean. In a right skewed run length distribution, the median run length (MRL) provides a more credible re... see more
Taesu Cheong,Kysang Kwon
In this paper we study an extension of a classic newsvendor model with balking under a service-level constraint. We also relax the assumption that the demand distribution is fully available to a decision-maker; we assume that only the mean and variance of... see more
Jan Rossouw Minnaar,Wilandri Basson,Pieter-Jan Vlok
Asset management is an important part of any organisation, as it allows them to extract value from their assets. The publicly-available specification for asset management (PAS 55) outlines what a standardised asset management system should consist of. The... see more
Sang-Bing Tsai,Yu-Cheng Lee,Chia-Huei Wu,Jiann-Jong Guo
This study adopted 14 criteria for order-winners and qualifiers as the attributes for evaluation. The first stage used a simultaneous importance-performance analysis to analyse the competitive market situations of a corporation and its competitors. The se... see more
Willy Kiprotich Ngetich,CM Moll
During 2008 and 2009, post-apartheid South Africa and the global community experienced major economic turbulence, bringing into focus the need for skills development across the major South African economic sectors to resuscitate its failing economy. The s... see more
Chien-Chung Lee
This work tries to consider the make-to-order production of multiple-line production with the considerations of production rate, production time interval, production yield, holding cost, manufacturing cost, setup cost, the penalty cost of shortage and con... see more
Amir Al Shaalane,Peter-Jan Vlok
This paper analyses the use and possible application of the concept of the maintenance free operating period (MFOP), derived from the aviation sector, in the mining industry. The traditionally used reliability requirement, mean time between failure (MTBF)... see more
Rasoul Akram,M.A Alemi
The implementation of lean manufacturing concepts has had a significant impact on various industries. Many companies around the world have attempted to implement lean manufacturing, but the lack of an obvious understanding of lean measurement and its perf... see more
Goran Lj. Janackovic,Suzana M. Savic,Miomir S. Stankovic
This paper presents the factors, performance, and indicators of occupational safety, as well as a method to select and rank occupational safety indicators based on the expert evaluation method and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fuzzy AHP). A case s... see more
Tanye ver Loren van Themaat,Cornelius SL Schutte,Eric Lutters,Denzil Kennon
This article presents a framework for developing and designing a business model to target the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) population. Using blue ocean strategy and business model literature, integrated with research on the BoP, the framework offers a syst... see more
Aderemi Oluyinka Adewumi,Sivashan Chetty
Annual crop planning (ACP) is an NP-Hard type optimisation problem in agricultural planning. It involves finding optimal solutions for the seasonal allocations of a limited amount of agricultural land among the various competing crops that need to be grow... see more