Department of Industrial Engineering

Waste to resource process chain strategies for global manufacturers

Durr, J. F. W.; Hagedorn-Hansen, D.; Oosthuizen, G. A. (Elsevier, 2017)

ENGLISH ABSRACT: In order for suppliers to stay competitive in the global market, innovative and resource efficient process chains need to be a part of their manufacturing strategies. In this study the effect of different ...

Investigating the effects of smart production systems on sustainability elements

Waibel, M. W.; Steenkamp, L. P.; Moloko, N.; Oosthuizen, G. A. (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 effects of automating process chains towards sustainable manufacturing in South Africa

Hagedorn-Hansen, D.; Steenkamp, L. P.; Hagedorn-Hansen, E.; Oosthuizen, G. A. (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 components affecting the resource efficiency of incorporating metal additive manufacturing in process chains

Girdwood, Richard; Bezuidenhout, Martin; Hugo, Philip; Conradie, Pieter; Oosthuizen, Gert; Dimitrov, Dimiter (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 ...

Initialising customer-orientated digital transformation in enterprises

Von Leipzig, T.; Gamp, M.; Manz, D.; Schottle, K.; Ohlhausen, P.; Oosthuizen, G.; Palm, D.; Von Leipzig, K. (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 ...

Evaluation of resource efficient process chains for secondary manufacturing processes of bamboo bicycles

De Weta, P.; Oosthuizen, G. A.; Oberholzer, J. F.; Burgera, M. D.; Ras, C. I. (Elsevier, 2017)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order for manufacturing suppliers to stay competitive in the global market, innovative and resource efficient process chains need to be a part of the manufacturing strategy. Secondary manufacturing ...

Emissions testing of loose biomass in Limpopo Province of South Africa

Shuma, Mikateko R.; Madyira, Daniel M.; Oosthuizen, Gert A. (Elsevier, 2017)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Southern Africa depends on wood for energy. This affects deforestation and global warming. Loose biomass briquettes can replace round wood and mitigate such problems. Loose biomass derived from agricultural ...

A systematic review of the due diligence stage of mergers and acquisitions : towards a conceptual framework

Bhagwan, V.; Grobbelaar, S. S.; Bam, W. G. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-11-09)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisations are under constant pressure to grow in the face of increased competition, changing conditions, and increasingly relaxed country and currency regulatory environments. In order to remain a ...

The megaproject sponsor as leader

Louw, W.; Wium, J.; Steyn, H.; Gevers, W. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-11-9)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The importance of the sponsor role, including its contribution to the success or failure of a project, is widely recognised in the project management literature. References to the sponsor’s leadership, ...

A conceptual framework to increase competitiveness in a biltong factory

Henning, Mieke; Hagedorn-Hansen, Devon; Von Leipzig, Konrad H. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-11-09)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The global annual biltong market value was estimated at roughly R640 million to R1.1 billion in 2003. By 2015, biltong sales were reported to be more than R2.5 billion. To stay competitive as a biltong ...

Developing a challenges landscape relating to drug safety, provision, and distribution in resource-limited settings for the case of HIV/AIDS

Huysamen, Biance; De Kock, Imke H.; Bam, Louzanne (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-11-09)

ENGLSH ABSTRACT: Since 2010, pharmaceutical organisations have begun to provide drug patents in sub-Saharan Africa through the UN Medicine Patent Pool. This initiative allows any pharmaceutical manufacturer to access these ...

Pilot production environments driven by digital twins

Lutters, E. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)

ENGLSH ABSTRACT: Establishing production environments requires joint decision-making by stakeholders from many disciplines at different levels of aggregation, because of the significant, unpredictable, and risky investments ...

Development of a discrete-event, stochastic multi-objective metaheuristic simulation optimisation suite for a commercial software package

Bamporiki, T.; Bekker, J. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-11-08)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this paper, the authors present the development of an optimisation suite and its implementation. This paper is part of an ongoing project that aims at developing a hybrid metaheuristic optimisation ...

A performance measurement framework for the South African bulk export wine supply chain

Smit, Johan B.; Van Eeden, Joubert; Van Dyk, Frances E. (AOSIS Publishing, 2017-09-28)

Background: Many participants in the South African wine industry still exhibit low supply chain maturity in the management of their supply chains. This hampers export performance and ultimately client satisfaction. The ...

Implications of biofuel production in the Western Cape province, South Africa : a system dynamics modelling approach

Jonker, Willem; Brent, Alan Colin; Musango, Josephine Kaviti; De Kock, Imke (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 ...

Investigating the performance of custom manufactured cermet mounted points when grinding Ti6Al4V alloys

Enever, A. A.; Oosthuizen, G. A.; Sacks, N.; Burger, M. D.; Oberholzer, J. F. (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 ...

A virtual store framework model : optimising travel route for a passenger rail operation of maintenance components using GIS

Fourie, C. J.; Chimusoro, O.; Asekun, O. O. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Previous studies of supply chain management systems have attempted to focus on transportation, logistics, storage space planning, and time-to-delivery. The biggest challenge for large organisations like ...