Current Projects
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The Chair is currently busy with the following undergraduate research projects in 2019:
Industrial Engineering Projects
- Digital? transformation framework for rolling stock maintenance
- A knowledge management framework for a Railway asset maintenance
- Automated image detection system to identify rolling stock faults (PC1)
- Develop a data driven digital representation of rail rolling stock (PC2)
- Development of a framework for evaluating supplier/contractor performance in a rail environment
- Identification of factors that affect the performance of virtual engineering work-teams.
- A network analysis of the Gauteng passenger rail system
- A network analysis of the KwaZula-Natal passenger rail system
- Development of a reliability model for PRASA’s X’trapolis Electric Multiple-Unit (EMU)
Mechanical Engineering Projects
- Monitoring overhead high tension electrical (OHTE) Cable theft
- Repair optimisation of a railway vacuum brake cylinder
- Development of a facial recognition for the passenger rail environment
- Development of a passenger counting system for the passenger rail environment
