ARCHITECTING THE ENTERPRISE TOWARDS ENHANCED INNOVATION CAPABILITY

Autor: Louis Louw, Corne Schutte, Niek Du Preez, Heinz Essmann

Publikováno v: South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol 28, Iss 4, Pp 50-65 (2017)

In today’s competitive environment, organisations cannot afford to focus only on effectiveness and efficiencies – they also need to innovate. This is evident from most literature sources on innovation. Innovation topics, such as the innovation pr

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Exploiting deterministic maintenance opportunity windows created by conservative engineering design rules that result in free time locked into large high-speed coupled production lines with finite buffers

Autor: Eon Smit, Casper Durandt, Niek Du Preez

Publikováno v: South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol 27, Iss 2, Pp 132-146 (2016)

Conservative engineering design rules for large serial coupled production processes result in machines having locked-in free time (also called ‘critical downtime’ or ‘maintenance opportunity windows’), which cause idle time if not used. Opera

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http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1370

Customised high-value document generation

Autor: Nicolas Perry, Niek Du Preez, Wilhelm Uys, Alain Bernard, Alexandre Candlot, Louis Louw

Publikováno v: Scopus-Elsevier
CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology
CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology, Elsevier, 2005, 54 (1), pp.123-126. ⟨10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60064-X⟩

International audience; Contributions of different experts to innovation projects improve enterprise value, captured in documents. A subset of them is the centre of expert constraint convergence. Their production needs to be tailored case by case. Do

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Managing Processes and Knowledge in Inter-Organisational Environments

Autor: Niek Du Preez, David Chen, Martin Zelm, Raúl Poler Escoto, Frank M. Lillehagen

Publikováno v: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ISBN: 9781475751512
ICEIMT

KM is considered an important success factor in enterprise operation, however, capturing knowledge and using it across organisational boundaries is still a major challenge. Starting form a comparison of KM and BPM, the paper elaborates on methodologi

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35621-1_7