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Browsing Masters Degrees (Industrial Engineering) by Title

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Analysing product development best practices and improvement of associated activities with an application to a South African company

Hall, Georgina (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dynamic and highly competitive environment that most product development organisations find themselves in demands a method to constantly assess the maturity of the organisations' product development ...
The application of 3D Printing in reconstructive surgery

Honiball, John Robert (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As part of a growing trend in the medical industry of patient specific solutions, a need arises for means and methods that could grant surgeons the ability to improve their pre-operative planning, and ...
The application of necessary but not sufficient principles to the implementation of product lifecycle management software

Van der Walt, Lizenka (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-03)

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is defined as the business activity of managing a company's products across the product lifecycle. Product Data Management (PDM) systems are the primary system component of PLM. The focus ...
The application of the cross-entropy method for multi-objective optimisation to combinatorial problems

Hauman, Charlotte (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Society is continually in search of ways to optimise various objectives. When faced with multiple and con icting objectives, humans are in need of solution techniques to enable optimisation. This ...
The application of the six sigma quality concept to improve process performance in a continuous processing plant

Nxumalo, G. L (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This report presents the application of the six sigma quality concept in solving a true business problem. Six sigma is a quality improvement and business strategy/tool developed by Motorola in the mid ...
Applying patient-admission predictive algorithms in the South African healthcare system

Daffue, Ruan Albert (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Predictive analytics in healthcare has become one of the major focus areas in healthcare delivery worldwide. Due to the massive amount of healthcare data being captured, healthcare providers and health ...
Assessing the innovation capability of a research institution

Visser, J. D. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The evolution of the university’s role in national innovation systems has lately received increasing attention in international academic circles, with emphasis on its role in stimulating and sustaining ...
An assessment of telemedicine services within the Western Cape public health care system

Hartmann, Andre (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

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 ...
ATM cash management for a South African retail bank

Du Toit, Delyno Johannes (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cash can be seen as a fast moving consumer good. Approaching cash as inventory within the ATM cash management environment of a South African retail bank, provided the opportunity to apply well known ...
Attributes and multi-criteria decision analysis in machine selection for process chains

Steyn, Marisa (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this project is to find a means to evaluate a number of machines to optimise a process chain. Firstly seven machine types were identified to be included in the study. These machine types ...
Automating a labour performance measurement and risk assessment: an evaluation of methods for a computer vision based system

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 ...
Benchmarking in the South African tool and die manufacturing industry

Malherbe, D.C. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-03)

The supply of manufactured products depends on tool, die and mould (TDM) manufacturing. The TDM industry provides the machines, tools and equipment necessary to produce most manufactured components. The TDM industry is ...
Bridging the gap between strategic control and performance measurement : a systems approach

Pienaar, Willem Alexander (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2010-12)

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A business model development strategy to expand into the bottom of the pyramid population

Ver Loren van Themaat, Tanye (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) population are those individuals who live under the poverty line. They often do not have easy access to products and services, because the infrastructure to serve them is ...
Business process modelling using model checking and the theory of constraints

Odendaal, Maghiel Jock (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Concurrent and distributed business processes are becoming the norm in many organisations. Current modelling techniques do not address the problems faced by concurrent business processes sufficiently. ...
Call centre design, operation and optimisation : a structured and scientific based approach

Du Preez, Johan Joubert (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008-03)

Call centres form an increasingly important part of the modern day business environment and perform an important role in the strategic and operational aspects of organisations. Call centres have emerged and developed to ...
Capitalising on South Africa's innovation resource through entrepreneurship in the creative industries

Riley, Kim (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Capitalising on South Africa’s innovation resource through entrepreneurship in the creative industries. In light of the current global challenges as well as local needs and opportunities, there is ...
A case study in project management

Boezaart, T. C. (Theodoor Christiaan) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Project Management has already moved beyond the realms of an "orderwinning"- criteria to a "necessary-to-survive"-criteria. Increasingly people are drawn into project management without the correct ...
Check weighing in table grape punnet packing: Opportunities in the development of operational effectiveness

Smit, Rudi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

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 ...
A comparative study on the value of accounting for possible relationships between decision variables when solving multi-objective problems

Scholtz, Esmarie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

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 ...