Browsing Research Articles (Industrial Engineering) by Title
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Implications for the agriculture sector of a green economy transition in the Western Cape Province of South Africa : a system dynamics modelling approach to food crop production
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017-05)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Western Cape Provincial government in South Africa has introduced a green economy framework, ‘Green is Smart’, to create a more sustainable economy. This framework stipulates plans for the Western ... -
Implications of biofuel production in the Western Cape province, South Africa : a system dynamics modelling approach
(University of Cape Town, Energy Research Centre, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The national government instated a mandatory blending policy to facilitate the uptake and establishment of a biofuels sector in South Africa. Uncertainty exists, however, regarding the implications and ... -
Improvements in the capability profile of 3-D printing : an update
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2014-08)Knowledge about the capabilities of a production system is an important issue. The three-dimensional (3-D) printing (drop-on-bed) process has become a well-established Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology. Initially ... -
Improvements towards the identification and quantification of relationships between key performance indicators
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The quantitative relationships at the performance measurement system (QRPMS) is a methodology for identifying and quantifying relationships between key performance indicators. These relationships present ... -
The industrial engineer : caught between two revolutions?
(SAIIE, 1994)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Industrial Engineer is caught between the Industrial Revolution and the Information revolution. He is confronted with choosing between pragmatic improvements in productivity and efficiency of a ... -
Influence of heat treatments on the microstructure and tensile behaviour of selective laser melting-produced TI-6AL-4V parts
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In industry, post-process heat treatments of Ti-6Al-4V are performed with the aim of improving its tensile behaviour. While heat treatments of wrought Ti6Al4V have been standardised (e.g., Aerospace ... -
Initialising customer-orientated digital transformation in enterprises
(Elsevier, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Digitisation forms a part of Industrie 4.0 and is both threatening, but also providing an opportunity to transform business as we know it; and can make entire business models redundant. Although companies ... -
Integrated product and enterprise design for global competitiveness
(SAIIE, 1998)This paper presents an overview of the challenge to integrate product and process life cycles in maintaining global competitiveness of an enterprise and proposes IEKOS as a possible solution . It provides the reader with ... -
Integration costs of renewable energy technologies in future energy generation scenarios
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The objective of the paper is to understand the integration costs of renewable energy technologies (RETs) in future energy generation scenarios for South Africa. The study used PLEXOS1 to conduct a bottom-up ... -
An introduction to rapid casting : development and investigation of process chains for sand casting of functional prototypes
(SAIIE, 2007)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the results obtained from studies on different Rapid Tooling process chains in order to improve the design and manufacture of foundry equipment that is used for sand casting of ... -
Investigating a green economy transition of the electricity sector in the Western Cape Province of South Africa : a system dynamics approach
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Western Cape Government in South Africa has identified the concept of a green economy as a way to transform the Province’s economy to one that is more sustainable from an economic, social, and ... -
Investigating components affecting the resource efficiency of incorporating metal additive manufacturing in process chains
(Elsevier, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pursuing more sustainable process chains, manufacturers are constantly striving to enhance the resource efficiency of their manufacturing processes. As part of this, additive technologies have become ... -
Investigating of eco- and energy-efficient lubrication strategies for the drilling of light metal alloys
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineerg, 2010)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, ... -
Investigating the effects of automating process chains towards sustainable manufacturing in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Automation of processes is becoming increasingly popular within manufacturing. However, in third world countries such as South Africa, automation could lead to the loss of jobs and even higher unemployment. ... -
Investigating the effects of smart production systems on sustainability elements
(Elsevier, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The next generation of manufacturing systems will be self-organising. Networking of cyber-physical equipment and machinery are on the rise. In the field of sustainable manufacturing, an increasing level ... -
Investigating the financial close of projects within the South African renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2014-11)South Africa may have a generation capacity shortage in the near future. The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) is playing an important role in creating generation capacity to fulfil ... -
Investigating the performance of custom manufactured cermet mounted points when grinding Ti6Al4V alloys
(Central University of Technology, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The use and implementation of mounted grinding points in industrial applications are wide spread, ranging from the bio-medical and automotive industries to the aerospace and mining industries. These smaller ... -
An investigation into the normalisation of water and energy usage in the brewery industry
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Benchmarks are often used to assist brewers in identifying improvement opportunities; but a comparison of water and energy performances in breweries is deficient without normalising for differences between ... -
An investigation into the value of a standardised global pharmacovigilance reporting system
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017-11-22)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: 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 ... -
An investigation of cellular facility configuration for table grape packing
(South African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2014)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Although labour unrest in export fruit industries was limited to the Western Cape, the 50% increase in the minimum wage became applicable to the industry countrywide. Table grape packhouses in particular, ...
