The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering  

Corne Schutte

“The SAJIE journal provides not only a general ongoing stimulus for local graduate students, but also good training for international success. It compares well with some of the best international journals in the field of industrial engineering. It is the ... see more

Wesley Niemann,Theuns Kotzé,Dylan Jacobs

The purpose of this study was to investigate the key factors that affect the implementation of collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR). A single case study method was adopted, examining a critical case in the South African grocery re... see more

Isaac Opeyemi Olalere,Mendon Dewa

Remote condition monitoring (RCM) of machines seeks to enhance proactive maintenance through just-in-time responses to machine faults and process deterioration. This approach offers the benefit of reduced manning of machines and robust joint maintenance d... see more

Miguel Afonso Sellitto,Fabiano Lima Nunes,Domingos Rafael Ferla Vallladares

This article aims to verify factors that can contribute to the use of modularisation in the Brazilian automotive industry through a survey methodology, using principal component analysis and structural equation modelling by partial least squares as techni... see more

Abdullah A Alabdulkarim

The increasing number of cancer patients, coupled with the development and use of new, efficient medications, has increased the demand for cancer service care. Outpatient chemotherapy clinics (OCCs) are complex facilities, due to the large variability in ... see more

Sarel Pretorius Havenga,D J De Beer,P J Van Tonder,R I Campbell

Entry-level material extrusion artefacts persistently suffer from questionable weakened end-product production quality, according to industrial standards. These limitations can be addressed by the development of improved finishing techniques that may narr... see more

Gordon Monday Bubou,Joe E. Amadi-Echendu

A firm’s level of innovativeness is regarded as an indicator of its creativity, competitiveness, and performance. An understanding of the processes that lead to innovativeness is therefore crucial to scholars and practitioners. This makes innovativeness a... see more

Calvin Naidoo,R R Ramphal

This study sought to determine the factors that affect public participation (PP) for effective municipal service delivery by interviewing ward committee members in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa. Data were collected using a semi-... see more

Sonette du Preez,Deon Johan de Beer,Johan Lodewykus du Plessis

This study aimed to characterise three titanium powders used in powder bed fusion in terms of particle size, shape, and elemental composition for comparison with safety data sheet (SDS) information, and their relevance to additive manufacturing (AM) opera... see more

Roscoe Roy Peter McLean,Glen Bright

The paradigm of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) is still relatively new in implementation, even though research into the subject has been ongoing for over 15 years. Many supporting technologies are needed to make RMSs feasible, including the a... see more

Francois D Hugo,Leon Pretorius,Siebert J Benade

Central to project management is risk management — and the need to develop better and more specific tools to manage risk. This is driven by the desire to reduce uncertainty and risk on projects. Quantitative tools such as Monte Carlo simulation are someti... see more

Wessel Pienaar

This article discusses the most pertinent principles that underlie the preferred social cost-benefit analysis methodology to evaluate public road projects in South Africa. The ‘cost’ component of the analysis is the once-off investment cost sacrificed to ... see more

Trishen Naidoo,Anthony John Walker,Glen Bright,Shaniel Davrajh

Varied inspection is an on-line dynamic inspection method in which the amount of inspection performed fluctuates, based on production needs. A two-level control architecture of fuzzy controllers was used to perform varied inspection. The research was the ... see more

Milandi A Van Heerden,Johannes Jooste

  The integration of an organisation’s asset management and total quality management systems has become important in addressing operational challenges in the food industry. This paper proposes a guideline for implementing these systems through a... see more

Petrus Tshotleho Letaba,Tinus Pretorius,Leon Pretorius

The objective of this paper is to derive the innovation profile in developing countries, such as South Africa, from a technology roadmapping practitioner’s point of view. The specific research questions that are addressed are i) what are the main prioriti... see more

Lizet Engelbrecht,Antonie Van Rensburg

As part of the era of globalisation, the foreign market expansion of retailers is a trend that draws the attention of economists and researchers alike, and is an ever-expanding field of scholarly review. Africa is no exception to the process of globalisat... see more

Clarissa Gracioli Camfield,Miguel Afonso Sellitto

The purpose of this article is to assess the strategic performance of manufacturing of a company in the furniture industry located in Southern Brazil. We used a cybernetic approach to conduct the study and a tree-like structure formed by five competitive ... see more

Liliana Avelar-Sosa,M Mataveli,J L García-Alcaraz

The literature suggests that companies today evaluate the delivery time of their products/services to improve their performance in supply chains, which has great importance due to the global competition and trends in the current markets. In response, this... see more

Reginald Moshesh,Wesley Niemann,Theuns Kotzé

Organisations have adopted various risk management approaches to minimise or eliminate the negative impact of risk. One such approach is enterprise risk management (ERM). However, implementation challenges can render such approaches less effective. The pu... see more

Mncedisi Trinity Dewa,Andre Francois Van der Merwe,Stephen Matope

In this paper, a decision-making framework for implementing the concept of digitalisation within the South African tool, die, and mould-making (TDM) industry context is developed and employed. The purpose of this framework is to answer the following quest... see more