17 articles in this issue
R. Sooryamoorthy
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Engineering as a branch of science has a crucial role in the growth of the economy. The growth and development of engineering is therefore highly relevant. One way to understand this is to examine the characteristics of... see more
A. Sadegheih,D. Li,S. Sribenjachot,P.R. Drake
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper aims to guide those in supply chain management who make decisions on selecting factories, transportation modes, and the number of products to be manufactured. Solutions can be found through development of an ... see more
N.F. Treurnicht,H.J. Joubert,G. Akdogan,G.A. Oosthuizen
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Energy use will be one of the main drivers for the achievement of more eco-efficient drilling processes in the automotive industry. Industry awareness of the environmental impact of used cutting emulsions, and the negat... see more
A. Kundu,P.K. Dan
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the application of the Genetic Algorithm (GA), an important methodology in facility layout problems that can be used to gauge current and emerging trends in new design obj... see more
A. Ahmadi Javid,N. Azad
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this paper, we present a distribution network design problem in a supply chain system that minimises the total cost of location, inventory, and delivery delay. Customers demands are random, and multiple capacity leve... see more
S. Chihuri,L. Pretorius
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The role that project risk management plays in ensuring the successful delivery of engineering and construction projects in South Africa is addressed in this paper. A survey questionnaire was developed to establish appr... see more
A. J. van Niekerk,J. K. Visser
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Outsourcing some maintenance functions (or the entire maintenance of specific equipment) is one of the options available to maintenance managers in managing their department more effectively. Several factors should be c... see more
S. Prakash,M.K. Sharma,A. Singh
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Multi-Objective Generalized Assignment Problem (MGAP) with two objectives, where one objective is linear and the other one is non-linear, has been considered, with the constraints that a job is assigned to only one ... see more
E. O. Oyetunji,A. E. Oluleye
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper considers the bi-criteria scheduling problem of simultaneously minimising the total completion time and the number of tardy jobs with release dates on a single machine. Since the problem had been classified a... see more
E. Babiloni,,,M.E. Palmer
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is commonly assumed that intermittent demand appears randomly, with many periods without demand; but that when it does appear, it tends to be higher than unit size. Basic and well-known forecasting techniques and sto... see more
M. Seidi,A. M. Kimiagari
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Sustainability has become a major issue in most economies, causing many leading companies to focus on product recovery and reverse logistics. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that makes used products reusable. On... see more
S. Avakh Darestani,M.Y. Ismail,N. Ismail,R.M. Yusuff
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The quality of the raw material and supplied product from suppliers plays a critical role in the quality of the final product. It has become the norm that vehicle manufacturers require their suppliers to measure product ... see more
A. J. Moolman,K. Koen,J. Van der Westhuizen
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies activity costs in an organisation. It assigns the cost of activity resources to generate the actual cost of products in order to eliminateunprofitable produ... see more
A. J. Walker,G. Bright
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Reconfigurable control of flexible manufacturing systems can allow for the efficient and responsive production of customised product instances. This can aid in providing make-to-order business models for various small- t... see more
A.J. Du Plessis,J. Bekker
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was done to assist a local auto carrier company with tactical operational planning. The objective of the planning process is to maximise the number of vehicles delivered while being on time and adhering to st... see more
M.A. Djauhari,I. Mohamad
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper presents a new procedure for controlling process variability where (i) the quality of the process is determined by more than one quality characteristic, and (ii) the correlations among those quality cha... see more
E.O. Olakanmi,S.G. Aiyeru,P.I. Idalu
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The effects of alikama cereal and clay binder additions and moisture contents on the functional properties of clay-bonded core and moulding sands are explored. The outcomes suggest that improved functional properties ... see more