19 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
“It doesn’t matter where you came from. All that matters is where you are going.”-Brian TracyWe are pleased to present the first edition of SAJIE for 2019. We ended 2018 with nearly 70 articles, published in 4 editions. It seems that 2019 will at least ma... see more
Husam Kaid,Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari,Abdulaziz M El-Tamimi,Emad Abouel Nasr,Zhiwu Li
Petri nets are robust mathematical tools for the modelling, handling, and control of deadlock problems in automated manufacturing systems (AMSs). Several methods have been proposed to prevent deadlocks in AMSs. However, it is important to convert the cont... see more
Oluyomi Ajayi,Marne de Vries
Access to cost-effective, high-quality and speedy public services is a legitimate requirement and expectation of all South Africans. However, despite massive increases in successive budgets and grants to the public sector, the economy continues to witness... see more
Erns Hattingh,Cornelis van Waveren,Kai-Ying Chan
The desire to gain knowledge about the quality and timing of construction projects delivered to clients has become an increased focus point in the field of construction management. Clients have expectations that are often based on their assumptions about ... see more
Jaco Prinsloo,Marc Mathews,Johan du Plessis,Jan Vosloo
Industry stands to benefit from adopting Internet of Things (IoT) practices. However, reliability and quality of service are of the utmost importance. Challenges such as intermittent connectivity in wide-area wireless communications can hamper the adoptio... see more
Oludolapo Akanni Olanrewaju
As a developing country, South Africa’s manufacturing sectors have led to the country’s present industrialisation. Whereindustrialisation occurs, energy plays a pivotal role. This study, therefore, focuses on analysing and understanding the contributingfa... see more
Ferda Can Çetinkaya,Hale Akkocaoglu Çatmakas,Abdül Kadir Görür
This paper considers a single-machine scheduling problem of multi- operation jobs where each job consists of several operations processed contiguously, rather than being intermingled with the operations of different jobs. That is, the jobs are indivisible... see more
Louis Louw,S Nel
The South African fruit export industry is a key contributor to thecountry’s economy, and must be managed efficiently to that ensure its vital role is maintained. Significant increases in reefer freight rates have placed substantial pressure on the fruit ... see more
Adem Göleç,Azamat Maksudunov
This paper assesses the local entrepreneurial culture based on the perceptions of local residents, by focusing on four distinctdimensions of the local entrepreneurial culture: ‘diversity andchange climate’, ‘business promotion climate’, ‘business discoura... see more
Jacques Van den Berg,Elma Van der Lingen
Mobile enterprise application (MEA) technology has been identified as a technology that could help organisations to improve productivity, reduce cost, and gain and sustain competitive advantages through enterprise-wide technology implementations. Despite ... see more
Elizabeth Leonard,Imke De Kock,Wouter Bam
A disconnect exists between innovations and the adoption of such innovations, specifically within healthcare facilities. This disconnect results in various healthcare challenges — ones that could be addressed by successfully adopting and integra... see more
Thomas Munyai,Olasumbo Ayodeji Makinde,Charles Mbohwa,Boitumelo Ramatsetse
Productivity improvement in the steel industry is pivotal to achieving competiveness that stimulate the economic growth of a country. In the past decade, the steel shaft manufacturing industry has experienced low productivity rates, making it difficult to... see more
Thiensak Chucheep,?Narissara Mahathaninwong,Somjai Janudom
The objective of this work was to use the analytic hierarchic process (AHP) to select the best replacement brush cutter blades. The seven decision criteria of the AHP included three mechanical property criteria and four commercial data criteria. The mecha... see more
Ashwin Bhimrao Ganorkar,Ramesh R Lakhe,Kamalkishor N Agrawal
Costing is important for manufacturing industries. Large methods of costing have evolved over time. Recently, the time-driven activity- based costing (TDABC) system has gained importance and application. This article describes the procedure that allows co... see more
M Sivasundari,K S Rao,R Raju
This paper deals mainly with the existing practices of production planning in a single-piece flow-based cellular manufacturing process making auto-electrical parts. Based on historical data from a case study industry, we identified multiple significant an... see more
S M Baskaran,A R Lakshmanan
Lean manufacturing is becoming the frontrunner in solving manufacturing-related problems. To sustain the lean journey, assessing lean readiness is the appropriate way to implement it in any industry. In this research, lean readiness is evaluated in a case... see more
Anerosa Du Toit,Johannes Lodewyk Jooste,Pieter Daniël Francois Conradie
Response time for repairing rail infrastructure failures remains a challenge in the South African rail industry. The ‘mean time to return’ metric consists of mean time to respond and mean time to repair. This article investigates the m... see more
Chien-Chih Wang,Bing-De Wu
Wafer yield is a key indicator to pursuing excellence in semiconductor manufacturing. With the increased wafer size, the enhanced complexity and precision of wafer fabrication is possible. Using monitoring to improve the process by predicting the yield ha... see more
Theophelus Kagogo,Herman Steyn
Although project scope definition is regarded as a key element in successful project management, research on the subject is sparse. This paper investigates the relationship between project scope readiness and project performance in the Namibian mining ind... see more