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Research Outputs

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In taking up the challenge in starting off a research chair, the first priority was to satisfy the immediate requirements of PRASA Engineering. This entailed initiating and carrying out projects of a practical nature.

In addition to the projects, the PRASA Chair was able to produce various research outputs, thereby creating the start of an academic research footprint. Furthermore, these outputs were then made ready to be converted into practical solutions to the benefit of PRASA.

The following outputs were produced since the establishment of the PRASA Chair:

1.   Journal Publications

  1. FOURIE CJ, GEYER RW, Determining the Suitability of a Business Process Modelling Technique for a Particular Application, The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol 26, No. 1, pp252-266, May 2015.
  2. FOURIE CJ, ASEKUN OO, Selection of a Decision Model for Rolling Stock Maintenance Scheduling, The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp135-149, May 2015.
  3. CONRADIE PDF, FOURIE CJ, VLOK PJ, TREURNICHT N, Quantifying System Reliability in Rail Transportation in an Ageing Fleet Environment, The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp 128-142, August 2015.
  4. FOURIE CJ, ROMMELSPACHER KO, The Applicability of the Centano, Chaudhary & Lopez Repair Time Standard Methodology in a Rail Maintenance Environment, The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 26 No.3, pp183-193, Nov 2015.
  5. FOURIE CJ, TENDAYI TG, A Decision-Making Framework for Effective Maintenance Management using Life Cycle Costing (LCC) in a Rolling Stock Environment. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp142-152, November 2016.
  6. S SCHOONWINKEL, CJ FOURIE, PDF CONRADIE. A risk and cost management analysis for changes during the construction phase of a project. The Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, Vol. 58 No. 4, pp21-28, December 2016.
  7. FOURIE CJ, WILSON N, Mathematical and Simulation Techniques for Modelling Urban Train Networks. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 27 No. 2, pp109-119, August 2016.
  8. FOURIE CJ, UMEH NE, Application of Lean Tools in the Supply Chain of a Maintenance Environment. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Accepted for publication 2017.
  9. FOURIE CJ, ZHUWAKI NT, A Modelling Framework for Railway Infrastructure Reliability Analysis. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp150-160, December 2017.
  10. FOURIE CJ, CHIMUSORO O, An Examination of the Relationship between Supply Chain Management Practices and Business Performance: A Case Analysis of a Passenger Rail Company. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp141-152, August 2018.
  11. FOURIE CJ, CHIMUSORO O, ASEKUN OO, A Virtual Store Framework Model: Optimising Travel Route for a Passenger Rail Operation of Maintenance Components using GIS. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp102-112, August 2018.
  12. CONRADIE PDF, ASEKUN OO, SKRúCANY T, KENDRA M, STOPKA O. The effect of fuel on the energy consumption and production of greenhouse gasses in transport. The Archives of Automotive Engineering, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2018, pages 5-14, December 2018.
  13. ?Du TOIT A, JOOSTE JL, CONRADIE PDF, Improving the Response Time for the Corrective Maintenance of Rail Infrastructure: A Case Study of the Western Cape Passenger Rail Network. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, May 2019, Vol. 30 (1), pp235-247.
  14. FOURIE CJ, DU PLESSIS JA. Implementation of machine learning techniques for prognostics for railway wheel flange wear. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, May 2020, Vol. 31 (1), pp78-92.
  15. JOOSTE JL, LOUW L, VON LEIPZIG K, CONRADIE PDF, ASEKUN OO, LUCKE D, HAGEDORN-HANSEN D. Teaching maintenance plan development in a learning factory environment. Procedia Manufacturing 2020, Vol. 45, pp379-385.

 

 

?2.   Postgraduate Students

The following postgraduate students received their degrees through the sponsorship of PRASA:

    • SCHOONWINKEL S. A Risk and Cost Management Model for Changes during the Construction Phase of Engineering Projects. Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Thesis, December 2011.

    • ROMMELSPACHER KO. The Recommendation and Validation of an appropriate Physical Asset Management Policy for PRASA;s Metrorail Division. Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Thesis, March  2012.

    • VAN HEERDEN J. Reducing Risk in Large Scale Projects: Investigating the Integration of Systems Engineering Principles into Project Management. Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Thesis, March  2013.

    • TENDAYI TG. An Investigation into the Applicability of Lean Thinking in an Operational Maintenance Environment. Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Thesis, December 2013.

    • GEYER RW. Value-Adding Business Process Modelling: Determining the Suitability of a Business Process Modelling Technique for a Given Application. Master of Science in Engineering Management Thesis, December 2013.

    • ASEKUN OO. A Decision Support Model to Improve Rolling Stock Maintenance Scheduling based on Reliability and Cost. Master of Engineering in Engineering Management Thesis December 2014.

    • CONRADIE PDF. Quantifying System Reliability in an Aging Fleet Environment. Master of Engineering in Engineering Management Thesis, March 2015.

    • BENJAMIN NJ. A Systematic Approach to Enterprise Risk Management. Master of Engineering in Engineering Management Thesis, March 2015.?

    • JIDAYI YM. Reliability Improvement of Railway Infrastructure. Master of Engineering in Engineering Management Thesis, March 2015.

    • McNAUGHT MD.  A Risk-reliability Comparison of Track Sections in the Passenger Railway Industry, December 2015.

    • UMEH N. Integration of Lean Principles into Maintenance Supply Chains Thesis, December 2016. 

    • LATEGAN L.  System Analysis for Improved Energy Recovery in a Regenerative Electrical Traction Network Thesis, March 2017.
    • NICKERSON B. Development of an integrated numerical method for the fatigue analysis of railway bogies? Thesis, March 2017
    • CUPERUS L. Effects of Modelling Simplifications in FEA of Railway whe?e?ls Thesis, December 2017.
    • ZHUWAKI N. Application of reliability analysis for performance assessments in railway infrastructure asset management? Thesis, December 2017
    • WILSON N. Modelling service reliability of a heterogeneous train fleet operating on aged infrastructure? Thesis, December 2017
    • DU PLESSIS J. Implementation of artificial neural networks for the remaining useful life estimation of traction motor winding insulation Thesis, March 2019

3.   Research Conferences

Attending conferences and delivering papers are a recognised way of exchanging ideas and creating networks. The following papers were delivered by PRASA Chair engineers:

  • FOURIE CJ, TENDAYI, TG. A Lean Maintenance Supply Chain Framework for Rolling Stock Maintenance: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2012.

  • ?CONRADIE, PDF, TREURNICHT, N. Exploring Critical Failure Modes in the Rail Environment and the Consequential Costs of Unplanned Maintenance. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2012.

  • FOURIE CJ, ROMMELSPACHER KO. The Recommendation and Validation of an Appropriate Physical Asset Management Policy for PRASA's Metrorail Division. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of the South African Institute for Industrial Engineering (SAIIE), Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2013.

  • FOURIE CJ, TENDAYI TG.  The Combined AHP-QFD Approach and its use in Lean Maintenance. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of the South African Institute for Industrial Engineering (SAIIE), Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2013.

  • FOURIE CJ. Facility planning and layout design of a railway station. Proceedings of CORE2014 Conference on Railway Excellence, Railway Technical Society of Australasia, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, May 2014.

  • FOURIE CJ, ROMMELSPACHER KO, The systematic energy management of transport facilities for a holistic reduction of greenhouse emissions. Proceedings of COMPRAIL 2014 - Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation, WIT Press, Rome, Italy, June 2014.

  • FOURIE CJ, McNAUGHT MD, Using TQI to quantify the reliability of a section of Perway. Proceedings of CIRP 25th Design Conference: Innovation Product Creation, Elsevier: ScienceDirect. Haifa, Israel, March 2015.

  • FOURIE CJ, TENDAYI TG, A life cycle costing framework for effective maintenance management in a rolling stock environment. Proceedings of the XXI Urban Transport Conference, WIT Press, Valencia, Spain, June 2015.?

  • FOURIE CJ, McNAUGHT MD, A review of critical problems from the desks of chief executive officers in the passenger railway service industry. Proceedings of the XXI Urban Transport Conference, WIT Press, Valencia, Spain, June 2015.

  • TROLLIP K, JOOSTE JL, CONRADIE PDF. Reliability modelling of train set motor coaches for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa. Proceedings of the South African Asset Management Association 2018, Somerset West, South Africa, June 2018.

  • CONRADIE PDF, JOOSTE JL. Towards establishing an integrated health index for rail rolling stock. Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering Asset Management 2018, Stavanger, Norway, September 2018.?

  • CONRADIE PDF, JOOSTE JL. Towards establishing an integrated health index for rail rolling stock. Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering Asset Management 2018, Stavanger, Norway, (Presented in September 2018, published in 2019).

  • ZINCUME PN, ROMAN-MANEVELD J, Front-Line Supervisor Effectiveness Assessment on an Engineering Shop-Floor. Proceedings of the SAIIE XXXt Conference, October 2019, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

  • VAN SCHALKWYK JW, JOOSTE JL. Emerging data acquisition technologies in railway infrastructure condition monitoring and the adoption challenges. Towards the Digital World and Industry X.0 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT), September 2020, Virtual Conference.

  • CONRADIE PDF, JOOSTE JL. Towards an approach for applying reality technology in railway training and maintenance. Towards the Digital World and Industry X.0 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT), September 2020, Virtual Conference.

  • CONRADIE PDF, JOOSTE JL. Towards Establishing an Integrated Health Index for Rail Rolling Stock. Engineering Assets and Public Infrastructures in the Age of Digitalization. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, August 2020.?