18 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
Two communities of concern to Industrial Engineering held their annual conferences in South Africa recently: the 28th annual conference of the SAIIE (SAIIE28) (25-27 Oct 2017), the 18th annual international conference of the Rapid Product ... see more
O O Craig,Alan Brent,Frank Dinter
For South Africa, an increase in energy demand is associated with higher CO2 emissions. In order to overcome this challenge, the government started the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REI4P) to allow easy integration of ... see more
Kristy Campbell,W Booysen,J C Vosloo
Section 12L of the South African Income Tax Act (12L) aims to incentivise businesses to become more energy-efficient. However, claiming this benefit is a complex process that can become difficult, time-consuming, and costly if not clearly understood. It i... see more
Lyndall Fourie,Marne De Vries
Companies need to thrive in a dynamic environment, responding to it in an agile way. Within a company’s ICT domain, a key to achieving agility is to use agile software development. Experience, together with a literature review, has shown that the agile so... see more
Pascal Bohulu Mabelo,Bernadette Patricia Sunjka
Large Infrastructure Projects (LIPs) drive economic growth through both their construction phase (e.g., job creation) and their successful outcomes (e.g., better services). Numerous and recurrent unsatisfactory outcomes of LIPs indicate that traditional p... see more
Chipo Nancy Ngongoni,Sara Grobbelaar,Cornelius Schutte
Unemployment levels in South Africa have reached astronomical levels. This has spurred the government to fund entrepreneurship initiatives such as the Enterprise and Supplier Development programmes. Thus it is vital to enable and create entrepreneurial ec... see more
Pieter Goosen,Marc Mathews,Jan Vosloo
The ever-increasing cost of energy puts industries under pressure. Industries are forced to monitor their energy consumption and to manage energy more efficiently and responsibly. Some industrial companies have multiple operations spread out over a wide a... see more
Maximillian Juan Schurer,Louzanne Bam,Imke De Kock
Pharmacovigilance (PV) is based on the medical assessment of adverse medical events or drug-related problems, collected within organised health programmes. The large number of different PV systems, the equally large number of stakeholders within such syst... see more
Danie Viljoen,Johann Holm
This paper describes a life cycle model for the development of electronic equipment for use on board military aircraft in the South African context. The life cycle model presented consolidates the activities of systems engineering, safety and certificatio... see more
Mieke Henning,Devon Hagedorn-Hansen,Konrad Von Leipzig
South Africa has a high-cost, low-performance education system, which ultimately leads to unemployment and a skill shortage in the country. In order to bridge the skill shortage gap at a tertiary level, the Stellenbosch Learning Factory (SLF) was establis... see more
Marisa Walters,James Bekker
Difficulties lie with identifying the right customers to engage in successful marketing campaigns. Thus far, segmentation has been a popular marketing method for selecting customer groups for targeted campaigns. However, each segment can be further exploi... see more
Waldt Hamer,Walter Booysen,Edward Henry Mathews
Measurement and verification (M&V) is fundamental in determining the impact of energy efficiency (EE) interventions. However, accurately quantifying the EE savings on complex industrial systems can present several technical challenges. It is of critical i... see more
Musa Khumalo,Elma Van der Lingen
The open business model is the integration of open innovation with a business model. It is an important bridging construct between innovation and organisational performance in public and private organisation environments. The open business model is charac... see more
Kekeletso Thejane,Silethelwe Chikosha,Willie du Preez
The characterisation and monitoring of Ti6Al4V (ELI) feedstock powder is an essential requirement for the full qualification of medical implants and aerospace components produced in selective laser melting systems. Virgin and reused samples of this powder... see more
Bathusile Masina,Thabo Lengopeng,Sisa Pityana,Monnamme Tlotleng
In this study, TiAl alloy was coated on Ti64 using a 1074nm high power continuous-wave laser while varying the laser beam scanning speed. This was done in order to increase the thermo-mechanical properties of Ti64. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), ligh... see more
Toufik Tamsaout,Karim Kheloufi,El Hachemi Amara,Nana Kwamina Arthur,Sisa Pityana
A theoretical approach based on a numerical simulation using experimental data is proposed as a contribution to the study of laser-based additive manufacturing by direct energy deposition (DED). The aim is to simulate the stages of layer-by-layer build-up... see more
Lerata Botsane Malefane,W du Preez,M Maringa
The high cycle fatigue (HCF) properties of direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) of Ti6Al4V (ELI) in three mutually orthogonal build directions were investigated by cycling specimens under load control, in a tension-tension fatigue testing machine. Semi-log... see more
Devon Hagedorn-Hansen,Martin Bezuidenhout,Dimitar Dimitrov,Tiaan Oosthuizen
The use of additive manufacturing to produce intricate part geometries in the aerospace, medical, and tool-and-die industries is increasingly incorporated in manufacturing process chains. However, the high costs, long production times, and material integr... see more