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Developing a challenges landscape relating to drug safety, provision, and distribution in resource-limited settings for the case of HIV/AIDS
(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 ...
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Pilot production environments driven by digital twins
(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 ...
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Development of a discrete-event, stochastic multi-objective metaheuristic simulation optimisation suite for a commercial software package
(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 ...
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A performance measurement framework for the South African bulk export wine supply chain
(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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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A virtual store framework model : optimising travel route for a passenger rail operation of maintenance components using GIS
(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 ...
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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 ...
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Optimisation of stock keeping unit placement in a retail distribution centre
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-08-31)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The retail problem of slotting refers to the assignment of stock keeping units (SKUs) to the available storage locations in a distribution centre (DC). Generally, the expected total distance travelled by ...
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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 ...
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Bedryfs- en tegnologiese vereistes vir die winsgewende lewering van spoorgoederevervoer
(AOSIS, 2017-11-17)In hierdie oorsigartikel word verslag gedoen oor die vernaamste bedryfs- en tegnologiese vereistes waaraan kommersieel lewensvatbare spoorvervoerstelsels in ’n ekonomies ongereguleerde goederevervoermark moet voldoen. ...
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Rethinking strategic sustainability planning for the electricity sector in South Africa
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A series of processes is now converging to force the issue of sustainability to drive South Africa’s low-carbon energy transitions. This raises the question of how a ‘sustainability transition’ framework ...
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Towards a flexible innovation process model assuring quality and customer needs
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Successful innovation projects require an adequate innovation management capability in organisations. This means a sufficiently rigorous, continuous, and goal-oriented management of innovation processes. ...
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Comparing the sustainable development potential of industries : a role for sustainability disclosures?
(MDPI, 2018-03)Governments often seek to facilitate sustainable growth through the targeted support of specific industries that are deemed to have considerable sustainable development potential. However, the selection of appropriate ...
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Tiered-facility vehicle routing problem with global cross-docking
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The service delivery of public healthcare is severely threatened due to insu cient resources. A current South African public healthcare organisation responsible for processing pathological specimens ...
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Towards design rules for reinforced strain hardening cement composites (R/SHCC) in bending
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Strain Hardening Cement Composites (SHCC) are cement-based materials with remarkable characteristics. Its strain hardening ability under tension enables it to carry increased loads, after the material has ...
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Exploring innovation for inclusive development dynamics from an innovation systems perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Food security is still a pervasive problem, nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Industrial crop (IC) expansion has been at the centre of a debate as to whether ICs are assisting or hindering ...
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Ageing estimation models for lightly loaded distribution power transformers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Power transformers form an integral part of present day electricity networks. They allow for power to efficiently be transported over vast distances. They are however one of the most expensive assets within ...
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Smallholder food security impacts of industrial crop expansion and land use change in Malawi: a system dynamics simulation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Food security is still a pervasive problem, nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Industrial crop (IC) expansion has been at the centre of a debate as to whether ICs are assisting or hindering ...
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Evaluating different value adding processing systems for bamboo developments
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mining contributed significantly to South Africa’s economic growth, but with the closure of mining operations several challenges arise. These challenges include land remediation, mine rehabilitation and ...
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Application of lean tools in rolling stock procurement supply chain management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main aim of this research study was an investigation of applicable lean tools in rolling stock procurement supply chain management (SCM). Lean principles resonate from the manufacturing environment ...
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Development of a continuous improvement framework for a small scale steelmaking company
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African steelmaking industry is currently sailing through a turbulent economic period characterised with commodity price instability and competition from European and Asian markets. This ...
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Developing a model to overcome the organisational communication deficiencies that exist in the PAM Industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a service providing industry such as Physical Asset Management (PAM), a strategic partnership is a business relationship that is established to reach organisational objectives and to obtain a competitive ...
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Energy metabolism in a hybrid / multi-structured urban informal settlement
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Municipalities and governments at different levels are faced with the challenge of establishing energy policies and strategies for urban informal settlements that are mostly located in marginal areas. ...
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The development of a policy framework for integrating smart asset management within operating theatres in a private healthcare group to mitigate critical system failure
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), health technologies are an essential basis for the correct functionality of an effective healthcare system. It is within this hospital environment that ...
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A strategic model of macro-economic and supply chain factors that influence the decision-making process of SA retailers when expanding their footprint in African countries
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As part of the era of globalisation, the foreign market expansion of retailers is a trend that draws the attention of economists and researchers alike, and is an ever-expanding field of scholarly review. ...
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A management tool towards the development of healthcare innovation platforms
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The healthcare sector is constantly under pressure given rising patient demands, an increasing population and a lack of infrastructure and resources available in South Africa (SA). These trends result in ...
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A framework for implementing lean practices and tools to support ISO 55000 compliance for physical asset management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please refer to full text for abstract
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Impacts of industrial crops on food security in Swaziland, Tshaneni: a system dynamics approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Tshaneni, Swaziland has seen a prolific expansion in the cultivation of industrial crops over the last two decades. The effect of these industrial crops on local and regional food security is unclear. ...
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Generator maintenance scheduling based on the expected capability of satisfying energy demand
(Stellenbosch : Stellebosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The integrity of an electric power system is significantly threatened by unexpected downtimes of power generating units (PGUs). In order to minimise the occurrence of such unexpected PGU downtimes, planned ...
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