11 articles in this issue
P. Leonard,P.S. Kruger,C.M. Moll
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The proposed expansion of the Industrial Engineering discipline, termed Strategic Industrial Engineering, holds that scientific industrial engineering knowledge may be applied to capitalistic systems with the strategic ... see more
J. Basson
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Council for the Built Environment Act, Act No. 43 of 2000, the Engineering Profession Act, Act No. 46 of 2000 and the Natural Scientific Professions Act, Act No. 27 of 2003 provide for, amongst others, the establish... see more
P.H. Meyer,J.K. Visser
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many projects are not completed on time or within the original budget. This is caused by uncertainty in project variables as well as the occurrence of risk events. A study was done to determine ways of measuring the ris... see more
S. Dass,H. Steyn
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The theory of constraints (TOC) method for managing multiple projects provides a relatively new and simple heuristic for allocating constrained resources to projects. While this method is increasingly being used, there ... see more
L.A.G. Oerlemans,M.W. Pretorius
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa was one of the first countries in the world that adopted a Systems of Innovation approach as its policy framework. By adopting this approach, one also inherits the problems, pitfalls, and challenges of a fr... see more
M. Piperakis,A. Pouris
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The article makes the point that instrumentation is critical to the science and technology infrastructure. Furthermore, it reports the results of a relevant national survey. Information is available for three groups (i... see more
L.D. Meyer,D.L.W. Krueger,E.H. Mathews
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The mining industry is the largest source of foreign income for South Africa. It is also the main source of employment in the country. The focus of this study was to investigate the current underground labour planning m... see more
T. Rasche,M.L Smith,J. Joy,T. Klinge
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Probabilistic risk assessment has advantages over qualitative risk ranking for cases where choices need to be made that require consideration of variable inputs, where model sensitivities to variable inputs and their ef... see more
P.B. Osofisan,J. Esara
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A comprehensive optimisation of the cement production process presents a problem since the input variables as well as the output variables are non-linear, interdependent and contain uncertainties. To arrive at a solutio... see more
P.J. Conradie,P.S. Kruger
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Data quality, or rather the lack thereof, has been the downfall of many Data warehousing (DW) / Business Intelligence (BI) projects. The concept of Information Quality (IQ) has become increasingly important as the popul... see more
S.A. Oke
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The paper presents a comprehensive review of maintenance performance research. Articles on general surveys, system modelling, and specific applications in industries are reviewed. The scientific principles underlying ... see more