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A HYBRID PUSH/PULL SYSTEM IN AN SME BAKERY IN JOHANNESBURG
Bakery X is a small business in Johannesburg, South Africa that produces baked goods and sells these directly to the …
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IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIGITAL TWINNING APPROACH TO IMPROVE DESIGNS OF POLYURETHANE HEART VALVES
Young sub-Saharan African and developing-world patients with rheumatic heart valve diseases urgently require cost-effective prosthetic valves. To design cost-effective polyurethane …
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USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMISATION TO INFLUENCE THE INFILL PLACEMENT OF FUSED DEPOSITION MODELLED PARTS
Additive manufacturing continues to see increased growth and adoption across various industries owing to technology improvements and increasing material options. …
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A GENERIC COMPUTER VISION TOOL FOR RECOGNISING HUMAN ACTIVITIES
A prominent application area in the domain of computer vision is human activity recognition, which involves automatically detecting people’s actions …
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SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELLING OF THE WATER-ENERGY NEXUS IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CASE OF THE INKOMATI-USUTHU WATER MANAGEMENT AREA
The energy demand in African economies, including South Africa, is expected to double by 2040. The water-energy-food nexus, introduced at …
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ASSESSING ORGANISATIONS’ READINESS TO ADOPT GREEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: THE CASE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES VENDOR
Green information technology (IT) adoption is an important topic in the fields of information systems, business sustainability, and corporate social …
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MONITORING FOR CRACKS IN METAL L-PBF USING GAS-BORNE ACOUSTIC EMISSION
Delaminations and cracks are detrimental phenomena that hinder the quality of the final product in metal additive manufacturing. The effective …
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AN ANALYSIS OF DEVOPS’ IMPACT ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATIONS: A CASE STUDY
DevOps is a software development philosophy that involves the working together of development, operations, and other software development departments in …
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COULD DIGITAL UBUNTU BE THE SOUTH AFRICAN VERSION OF INDUSTRY 4.0?
Advanced technologies are satisfying the demands of individuals and of industry. But what about employees? Various organisations have begun to …
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A DYNAMIC APPROACH TO IMPROVING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF A SOUTH AFRICAN FOUNDRY INDUSTRY
Systems for refining and handling foundries have evolved rapidly in recent years. However, the South African foundry industry has been …
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT MATURITY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
This paper explores whether organisations in a developing country have become more mature over time in their project management practices, …
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A TAXONOMY OF UNIVARIATE ANOMALY DETECTION ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
Anomaly detection has a wide variety of applications, ranging from intrusion detection in cybersecurity to fraud detection in finance. Among …
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INSIGHTS INTO ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH
The international share of plug-in electric vehicle sales was 8.6% in 2021, compared with South Africa’s 0.1%. Increasing the sale …
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A DYNAMIC SIMULATION MODEL FOR OPTIMAL DEEP-LEVEL MINE COOLING MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL DECISION-MAKING FOR ESKOM’S LOAD CURTAILMENT
The South African mining sector depends on intensive energy usage to extract minerals. Most of this energy is used to …
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TOWARDS SMART CITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: EVOLUTION, DEFINITIONS, AND FUTURE CITIES
High urbanisation rates lead to increasing pressure on governments to provide sustainable living conditions. This article aims to explore the …
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ORGANISATIONAL ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK THROUGH SYSTEMS THINKING
Leadership is a system that includes interconnected elements. Adaptive leadership is about enabling followers to handle adaptive challenges and to …
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An exploration of effective supervisory engagement in the clothing industry through activity sampling technique
The gradual financial decrease through national and international competition led approximately 50% of clothing manufacturers to shut down their businesses …
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INFLUENCE OF Sn ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF Ti-Mo-Nb ALLOYS FOR ORTHOPAEDIC APPLICATIONS
Metastable ß-Ti alloys intended for orthopaedic implants typically possess undesirable α′, α″, ω precipitates, which increase the elastic modulus. Non-toxic …
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PHASE STABILITY OF TiPtZr SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS USING CLUSTER EXPANSION TECHNIQUES
Titanium-Platinum (TiPt) has a martensitic transformation of about 1300 K, making it potential material for use as a high-temperature shape …
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A TALE OF THREE REGIONS: QUALITY CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION
This study presents a comparative literature examination of the pharmaceutical industry in Japan, Europe, and the United States, focusing on …