Vol 26, No 2 (2015)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Note from the editor
Corne Schutte
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iii

Guest Editorial

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PROFESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA
Frank Sperotto
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1-9

General Articles

AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OBSERVATION CAMERA PLACEMENT WITHIN THE MEERKAT RADIO TELESCOPE PROJECT
Andries Heyns, Jan van Vuuren
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10-25
THE EFFECT OF THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES VEHICLE LOCATION AND RESPONSE STRATEGY ON RESPONSE TIMES
C Stein, Lee Wallis, Olufemi Adetunji
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26-40
INTEGRATED MODEL FOR SUPPLIER SELECTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Maria Creuza Borges de Araújo, Luciana Hazin Alencar
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41-55
DISCUSSING AND EVALUATING GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN SUPPLIERS: A CASE STUDY OF THE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD INDUSTRY IN CHINA
Jiann-Jong Guo, Sang-Bing Tsai
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56-67
A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROBABLE CIRCUMSTANCES
Denzil Kennon, Corne S. L. Schutte
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68-84
IMPLEMENTING THE SOUTH AFRICAN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP – THE ROLE OF AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING CENTRE OF COMPETENCE
Willie Bouwer du Preez, Deon J De Beer
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85-92
HEAT TREATMENT OF TI-6AL-4V PRODUCED BY LASERCUSING
Thorsten Becker, Melody van Rooyen, Dimitri Dimitrov
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93-103
THE NEED FOR POWDER CHARACTERISATION IN THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL FACILITY
Jeffrey Malcolm Benson, Ettienne Snyders
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104-114
APPLICATION OF A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF MAKE-TO-ORDER PRODUCTION
Yi-Lun Elaine Ho
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115-127
QUANTIFYING SYSTEM RELIABILITY IN RAIL TRANSPORTATION IN AN AGEING FLEET ENVIRONMENT
Pieter Daniel Conradie, Cornelius Fourie, Pieter Vlok, Nico Treurnicht
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128-142
COMPARING THE PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT META-HEURISTICS FOR UNWEIGHTED PARALLEL MACHINE SCHEDULING
Mumuni Osumah Adamu, Aderemi Adewumi
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143-157

Case Studies

MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING METHODS FOR SUPPLIER SELECTION: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Aytac Yildiz, A. Yesim Yayla
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158-177
A COMPARISON OF PHASE I CONTROL CHARTS
Margarethe Coelho, Subhabrata Chakraborti, Marien Alet Graham
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178-190
EVALUATING THE OPERATIONAL AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF A SMART ROUNDABOUT
Khaled Ali Alkhaledi
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191-202
FUZZIFICATION OF THE ‘TOWS’ STRATEGIC CONCEPT: A CASE STUDY OF THE MAGNETI MARELLI BRANCH IN THE SERBIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Duska Petar Pesic, Aleksandar Budimir Pesic, Slavko Trivun Ivkovic, Dejan Stojan Apostolovic
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203-217