UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PROJECT REPORT FOR DEGREE OF MASTERS 0F SCIENCE IN
ENGINEERING (INDUSTRIAL). / Pretoria Distributor, one of Eskom's five main distributors, was experiencing several
problems with the management and planning of their electrification projects. The
problems occurred as a result of inadequate systems, processes and training. The
rapid increase in the volume of material that had to be managed necessitated them
to investigate the possibility of implementing Materials Requirements Planning. The
investigation highlighted the fact that it would be very difficult to handle the volume
of projects on the current systems, [i.e. base systems) and while the environment at
the Distributor is not ideally suited to MRP, they should still enjoy many of the
benefits of implementing MRP. In preparing for the implementation, several action
plans had to be put in place to address the problems of poor planning.
By the time the Distributor was "live" on MRP many of the earlier problems relating
to planning and design standards, had been addressed. 'the pest implementation
evaluation revealed that although the electrification projects was not an ideal
environment in which to run MRP, they were enjoying several benefits from the
implementation. / Andrew Chakane 2018
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/25854 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Job, M. A. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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