5 articles in this issue
James Thorne,Doran Greening,Robert E.D. Woolsey
Search methods often display non-convergence or excessive convergence time on certain classes of nonlinear functions arising in engineering design. The authors will define a new geometric -programming based search method for single... see more
A.R. Greef,R. Reinecke
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Centre for Robotics at the University of Stellenbosch set itself the objective of building a fairly complex manufactu.ring ceH, including .'.11 unskilled human as a system componenL As a precursor to this effo... see more
N.D. Du Preez,J.C. Van der Merwe
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article reports the implementation of a userfriendly transshipment computer program, NETl, written in Turbo Pascal for IBM-compatible personal computers. The program is based on an existing computer program b... see more
R. Reinecke,P.M. Bird,J.T. McNab,A.R. Uys
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dynamics of a typical production-distribution system, namely from manufacturer to distributors to retailers has been simulated with the aid of Lotus 123 on a personal computer. The original simulation program ... see more
W.A. Lottering,S.J. Claasen
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Dasign goals for reliability and m-~intainability of subsystems should be determined in such a manner that the user requirement regarding reliability and maintainability will be achieved if subsystem goals are ... see more