15 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
The journal experienced again a very successful year. We introduced the special edition last year, and we continued with this newly established tradition this year, selecting the best contributions from related conferences and publishing it in... see more
Richmore Aron Dondofema,Stephen Matope,Guven Akdogan
The paper focuses on the evolution of the South African iron and steel industry from the industrial engineering perspective. The earliest ironmaking in South Africa dates to the fifth century CE; but the major evolution of the industry began in 1882 and, ... see more
Johannes Christiaan Kirstein,Alan Colin Brent
Benchmarks are often used to assist brewers in identifying improvement opportunities; but a comparison of water and energy performances in breweries is deficient without normalising for differences between facilities. The normalisation of water and energy... see more
Benjamin Batinge,Josephine Kaviti Musango,Alan C. Brent
Electricity plays a crucial role in the socio-economic development of any country. Developing countries, however, unlike their developed counterparts, do not have electricity markets that are fully satisfied, nor are they ‘laden’ with large-scale infrastr... see more
Louis Louw,Corne Schutte,Niek Du Preez,Heinz Essmann
In today’s competitive environment, organisations cannot afford to focus only on effectiveness and efficiencies – they also need to innovate. This is evident from most literature sources on innovation. Innovation topics, such as the innovation process and... see more
Carl Kirstein,Jacobus Krige Visser
Maintenance and physical asset managers often have to decide when a major asset needs to be replaced. The main objective of this study was to develop a methodology to determine the optimum replacement age of heavy mobile equipment that is close to the end... see more
Theo Govender,Michael Brooks,Clinton Bemont
Tractor-trailer units are the primary horizontal transport medium between the ship and the stacking area in container ports, and their efficient operation has a strong influence on loading and unloading rates. This paper presents a comparative study of th... see more
Suzaan Pretorius,Herman Steyn,Taryn Jane Bond-Barnard
It is widely accepted that project leaders should adapt their behaviour to meet the unique leadership demands of a variety of situations. Recently, vertical, shared, and horizontal styles of leadership have gained prominence, especially in the project man... see more
G M Ramachandran,S Neelakrishnan
One of the main challenges that a low-volume high-variety (LVHV) product manufacturing industry faces is to improve customer on-time delivery (OTD) against the original promised date (OPD) in a make-to-order (MTO) situation. A systematic root-cause analys... see more
L Banguera,J M Sepulveda,G Fuertes,Raúl Carrasco,M Vargas
This paper presents a literature review of different models of reverse and inverse logistics for solid waste management by using the content analysis method. The article has two parts. In the first part, the studies of diverse authors are discussed to def... see more
Mehmet Erdem,Serol Bulkan
The purpose of this study is to introduce a two-stage solution approach for a large-scale home healthcare routeing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP). In the first part of the two-stage solution approach, a cluster-assign algorithm is employed, based on the ... see more
Cornelius Jacobus Fourie,Nigel Tatenda Zhuwaki
The maintenance and management of railway infrastructure plays a central role in ensuring the reliability and availability of rail transport. In a highly competitive transport market, the rail industry is required to employ new and innovative maintenance ... see more
Stephan Snyman,James Bekker
Scheduling is a challenge that persists in the operational phase of the manufacturing life-cycle. The challenge can be attributed to the complex, dynamic, and stochastic nature of a manufacturing system. Computer simulation is often used to assist with sc... see more
Bertus van As,J Combrinck,G J Booysen,D J De Beer
Existing techniques to manufacture conventional tool steel inserts for the plastic injection moulding process are expensive and time-consuming. Complex mould inserts, difficult to manufacture with conventional processes, can be produced using Direct Metal... see more
Antonie Botes,Wesley Niemann,Theuns Kotzé
The purpose of this study was to investigate the underlying mechanisms through which buyer-supplier collaboration enables resilience. A single case study method was adopted, examining a critical case within the petrochemical industry. Data was collected t... see more