ENGLISH ABSTRACT: For wood manufacturers around the world, the single biggest cost factor is
known to be its raw material. Thus maximum utilisation, specifically volume
recovery of this raw material, is of key importance ...
Truter, Albert Willem(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African Navy (SAN) intends to reinstate Naval Station Durban
(NSD) as a fully operational support base for a new class of Offshore Patrol
Vessels (OPV’s) which the SAN intends to purchase. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The cross-entropy method for multi-objective optimisation (MOO CEM)
was recently introduced by Bekker & Aldrich (2010) and Bekker (2012).
Results presented by both show great promise. The MOO CEM ...
Van Baalen, Sarel Migael(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The enactment of the new Constitution of South Africa, 1996, gave prominence to the trans-formation of local government in South Africa. Rooted in the Constitution, the Municipal Systems Act, 2000, and ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Teleoperation as a field has seen much change since its inception in the early 1940s with Dr.
Raymond Goertz producing the first teleoperation system for manipulating radioactive
materials. With advances ...
Van Blommestein, Donald Lloyd(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis brings together productivity and risk assessments through innovative design, development
and evaluation of a unique system for retrieving and analysing data. In the past, although the link ...
Van Breda, Phelia(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa's system of socio-economic development planning is complex and
ine ective. There are many regulatory authorities involved, often with unclear
responsibilities and inadequate procedures of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Neck pain is a common phenomenon that occurs in a large percentage of the
population every day. While many occurrences are not deemed critical such
as those from muscle strain which can be treated with ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Telemedicine is de ned as an electronic exchange of medical information and/or
the delivery of clinical health care over a distance, by means of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT). South ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is ranked as one of the largest table grape exporting countries in the world.
The biggest markets for table grape exports have always been the EU and the UK, with
emerging markets in Eastern ...
Roelofse, Johannes Jacobus (Hanno)(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Food security is a national priority, according to Section 27 of the South African Constitution. It states: “Every citizen has the right to have access to sufficient food and water, and that the state ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organizations formally define and document their business processes in order to properly
understand them and to subsequently enable their continuous development, improvement and
management. In order to ...
Van Dyk, Liezl(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A telemedicine service is a healthcare service (-medicine) that is delivered over
a distance (tele-). The interest in the potential of telemedicine to increase the
quality, accessibility, utilization, ...
Swanepoel, Leon D.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Performance management systems are integral to many organisations. On all levels of management such performance measurements are used to drive a desired behaviour and business units, departments, as well ...
Snyders, Frans Johannes(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa’s health sector has not yet shown enough improvement to reach the Millennium Development Goals related to health. One of the problem areas is the low infant and child vaccination coverage in ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa has a great number of patients and not enough medical expertise to attend to their patient needs. The South African Department of Health (DoH) has recognised the potential benefit of the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Innovation is widely considered a key prerequisite for achieving organisational
competitiveness and sustained long-term wealth in our increasingly volatile business
environment. It is therefore ...
Von Petersdorff, Hagen Alexander(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Asset Management initiatives suffer many barriers in implementation which
hinder their influence and sustainability. One of these barriers is the lack of
buy-in from all levels in the organisation, due ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It has been postulated that lean thinking principles can be successfully applied to any industry. Following on that postulation, there have been great advances in the area of lean thinking outside the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The management of physical assets has become a popular eld of
study over recent years and is being acknowledged in multiple disciplines
world wide. In this project, research on Physical Asset ...