- Title
- Utilising value stream mapping to improve operations at Transwerk Uitenhage
- Creator
- Silo, Andile Elliot
- Subject
- Production engineering
- Subject
- Production planning
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- vital:8760
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/604
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011684
- Identifier
- Production engineering
- Identifier
- Production planning
- Description
- Transwerk is a business uint of Transnet. It was established in 1940. Since 1940 unti 1994, Transwerk operated as the engineering section of Spoornet and was known as South African Railways. Transwerk emancipated in 1994 and had plants in all nine provinces of South Africa. In the past, trains were hauled by steam locomatives, which were manually operated. With the improvement of technology, steam locomotives were replaced by diesel locomotives. The recent technology improvement brought about electric locomotives which are more reliable than diesel locomotives.Trnaswerk has a plant in the Eastern Cape Province which is situated in Uitenhage. This plant focuses on refurbishing wagins for Spoornet. This research is about improving the refurbishing processes of Transwerk Uitenhage.
- Format
- iv, 108 leaves : col.ill. ; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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