ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis represents the impact of the conformal cooling on the performance of injection moulds for the packaging industry. An existing, commonly used, off the shelf plastic part for the packaging ...

The last untapped margin of improvement in the manufacturing process is believed to be the improvement of physical asset maintenance. The latest opportunity is to move this process to a real time system. Although in ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The moderation of examination answer books is an area where quality assurance is essential, and should be employed to ensure that an examination paper’s standard, content and span, marking, etc. are ...

This project was initiated to develop a new and novel approach to address complex sequencing problems, in particular, an alternative method was developed to find solutions to the sequential ordering problem. The sequential ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The high failure rate of innovation projects indicates that many companies are not getting the full benefit from their innovation projects [1], [2]. A research project was carried out during 2005 that ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper describes the role and use of enterprise engineering concepts as a formal approach to the deployment of sustainable networks of small businesses in South Africa. Small, medium and micro ...

Off-road working vehicles are subjected to high levels of vibration input on the rough terrain and irregular roads they work. The human operators are therefore exposed to high levels of whole body vibration (WBV) and at ...

Robot control by TCP/IP communication is investigated in this thesis for existing robots used in tertiary education. The request for newer software for robotic computer control came from the University of Stellenbosch ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was initiated in October 2004 when Vizier Systems (Pty) Ltd approached the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch with a concept. They proposed that a fruit packing ...

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 ...