Doctoral Degrees (Industrial Engineering)
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The impact of advanced planning systems on the design of central inventory planning teams in retail
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The retail supply chain has evolved significantly over the last three decades, with retailers becoming the dominant partner in the overall supply chain. Retailers are no longer passive recipients of ... -
The Role of Innovation Intermediaries in Developing Healthcare Innovation Ecosystems: Value Co-Creation through Platforms
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Creating sustainable agile innovative environments is a persistent challenge, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 global pandemic. The disruption in services has highlighted the need to ... -
Systems thinking as a novel framework to study overuse injuries in endurance running
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The chronicity of running related overuse injuries is problematic. Scholars have begun question-ing whether the mainstream, reductionist approach to understand the causes behind overuseinjuries and ... -
Development of a participatory planning approach for energy sustainability at a local government level
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please refer to full text for abstract -
Managing technology within the context of sustainability transitions: An integrated framework
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is an increasing awareness and understanding that addressing the numerous sustainability challenges that we face on a global scale poses a grand challenge. Addressing the sustainability challenges ... -
Graph-based semi-supervised learning for the detection of potential disease causing genes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: AbstractIt is widely believed that almost all diseases are, to some extent, influenced by individuals’ geneticmake-up. Ample insight into this relationship may usher in a new age where ... -
A framework for evaluating unstructured text data using sentiment analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Increased exposure of the average customer and citizen to polarised content from various sourceshas been a cause of significant concern for companies and governmental organisations. Suchcontent ... -
Towards the interoperability of spontaneous reporting systems in pharmacovigilance : a maturity model approach with a sociotechnical system focus
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is universally accepted that all medicines have the potential to cause adverse drug reactions (ADRs) during the course of their normal therapeutic use. Drug safety surveillance during the post-marketing ... -
Application of additive manufacturing for improved thermal management of hot sheet metal forming tools
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In hot stamping, a blank or sheet of metal at high temperature (800-900 °C) is formed and cooled simultaneously by the tools. The rapid cooling of the blank causes transformation to a martensitic ... -
Constructing a framework that facilitates technology transfer to sub-Saharan Africa : a healthcare perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Healthcare technology transfer aims to alleviate healthcare burdens in developing nations through a combination of acquisitions and collaborative technology development. Although technology transfer may ... -
Development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for sustainability assessment of microtransit systems
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: Mobility has always been essential to nearly every aspect of human existence. Due to the intrinsic aim of transport systems to improve our lives, it is unsurprising that transport development ... -
A demand driven supply chain management maturity model for public healthcare sector
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To cope with low forecast accuracy and high demand variability in complex public healthcare supply chains, many supply chain nodes are trying to move from a pure Push strategy, to a Pull strategy, driven ... -
Toward a meta-methodology for real-world problem solving
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There are complexities inherent to the subjective experience of life that render real-world problem solving exceedingly subtle and difficult. Yet, all too often, it is not the complex nature of problems ... -
Evolutionary search strategies in constraint programming
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Successful approaches towards solving complex combinatorial optimisation problems straddle a boundary between art and science. Discrete search spaces are typically notoriously large, contain high-dimensional ... -
Towards a strategy formulation framework that supports SME survival and growth
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical to the socio-economic development of both developing and developed countries. Unfortunately, SMEs suffer from a high failure rate due to an inability ... -
The development of a policy analysis logic model to support public medicine availability initiatives in the context of VAN
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Visibility and Analytics Network (VAN) aims to improve public sector medicine availability from a supply chain perspective. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (with inputs from multiple global ... -
A framework for quantifying and characterising road accident risk : a data mining approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: According to the World Health Organisation, road accidents account for approximately 1:25 million deaths annually | the eighth leading cause of death worldwide. With the enormous losses to society resulting ... -
Framework to manage change complexity when introducing high voltage technology to automotive production lines
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Manufacturing has evolved over the centuries, shifting from one manufacturing paradigm to the next. Competition is now truly global, with companies needing to adapt to market requirements and needing to ... -
Sustainable future CSP fleet deployment in South Africa: A hydrological approach to strategic management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The global growth in renewable energy, as a means to mitigate climate change, has seen the large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind in the electricity generation mix. However, this ... -
Industrial policy-making in mineral-rich developing countries
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT:This dissertation investigates policy-making in mineral-rich developing countries with a focus on policies that seek to promote the value add to mineral products before export (also known as beneficiation ...
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