18 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago" - Warren BuffettAs we were preparing the November edition of the journal, I received very sad news on Sunday morning 26 October: Prof Kris Adendorff had passed away dur... see more
Kris Adendorff,Paul Kruger
The study revisits the subject matter of inventory control, a continual part of the activities of wide-ranging organisations internationally. The mathematical model is presented of a particular situation that deals with the regular acquisition of a materi... see more
Werner Pieterse,Schalk Grobbelaar,Jacobus Krige Visser
There are many factors to be considered in risk management that influence the effective control of risk either beneficially or detrimentally. An improvement in the quality of risk analysis will enable risk managers and decision-makers to make more accurat... see more
Deirdre Du Toit,Pieter-Jan Vlok
The topic of supply chain management (SCM) is complex to understand because it encompasses many different flows of activities, components, functions, and role-players. The literature is scattered across multiple functions, varies in scope, and is often co... see more
Osman Taylan,Hisham Alidrisi,Mohammad Kabli
Employee selection is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem for selecting suitable applicants from a ready pool. The selection aims to make use of their knowledge, relevant skills, and other characteristics to perform a specific job. The aim of ... see more
Ian Pieters,Marco Lotz,Alan Colin Brent
South Africa may have a generation capacity shortage in the near future. The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) is playing an important role in creating generation capacity to fulfil future demand requirements. Thi... see more
Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari,Awais Ahmad Khan,Emad Samir Abouel Nasr,Ali Kamrani
A modular fixture system is a flexible alternative to a dedicated fixture. In this paper, an automatic modular fixture design system is suggested for creating prismatic parts. The system contains fixture planning, fixture modelling, and fixture assembly. ... see more
Michael Mutingi,Charles Mbohwa
Home healthcare (HHC) organisations provide coordinated healthcare services to patients at their homes. Motivated by the ever-increasing need for home-based care, the assignment of tasks to available healthcare staff is a common and complex problem in hom... see more
Mariette van Niekerk,James Bekker
To enable the management of project-related risk on a portfolio level in an owner organisation, project contingency estimation should be performed consistently and objectively. This article discusses the development of a contingency estimation tool for a ... see more
Ann Sharon Lourens
Self-efficacy relates to positive outcomes for women studying and working in traditionally male-dominated fields such as engineering, science, and technology. Many women engineering students (WES) experience fear and insecurity about how they will be trea... see more
Rone vd Merwe,Andre Liebenberg,Marne de Vries
Agricultural engineering applies existing knowledge to provide for humanity’s greatest need: food for survival. This article presents an opportunity to augment existing agricultural engineering practices with industrial engineering techniques, with the ai... see more
Seyed Babak Ebrahimi,Fahime Rouhiolyaee
Price volatility of stocks is an important issue in stock markets. It should also be taken into account that the stochastic nature of volatility affects decision-makers’ minds to a great extent. Therefore, predicting price volatility could help them make ... see more
Hagen von Petersdorff,PJ Vlok
Physical Asset Management (PAM) initiatives suffer many barriers in implementation that can hinder their influence and sustainability. One of these barriers is the lack of buy-in from all levels in the organisation, due to a lack of understanding of the p... see more
Robert Hagspihl,Stephan E Visagie
The order picking process is often the single largest expense in a distribution centre (DC). The DC considered in this paper uses a picking line configuration to perform order picking. The number of pickers in a picking line, and the initial arrangement o... see more
Jing Zhou,Gang Guo,Fa Yuan Dong,Hao Li,Li Lin,Fang-yan Yang
The use of conceptual scheme evaluation is a key step in the development of new products. In this paper, a multi-dimensional evaluation method that involves subjective evaluation, eye-tracking, and product image evaluation is established. In this study, s... see more
Never Mabvuu,Lungile Nyanga,Andre F Van der Merwe,Stephen Matope,Samson Mhlanga
Many of the production costs for producing tea are attributable to the process of drying the tea. E-manufacturing can assist companies to reduce these production costs by making crucial information available to decision-makers so that they can make inform... see more
J Dinis-Carvalho,Anabela Carvalho Alves,Rui Manuel Sousa
Cellular production is usually seen as a hybrid approach between job-shop and flow-line paradigms, reducing the major disadvantages of these two paradigms: the low productivity of job-shops and the low flexibility (in terms of products’ variety) of the fl... see more
Farhad Mousavi,Bela Vizvari
In this paper, types of cars are described by factors, with each factor consisting of different levels. The satisfaction of the customer is determined by the levels of the factors and the price of the car. Two groups of customers with different tastes are... see more