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SAIIE25 Advert May 2013.pdf

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Every year the 4th year IE students from Wits embark on a study tour of industries in another city. In January 2011, the study tour took them to East London.

Some of the highlights were:

• The visits to suppliers such as the Lear Corporation, the manufacturer of leather car seats illuminated the implications of true JIT.
• A visit to FoxTec Ikhwezi, a local subsidiary of German company Fuchs, was an eye opener. 

The undisputed highlight of the tour was the visit to the Mercedes-Benz plant.

Read more by logging onto the SAIIE website

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Wits IE Students visit EC industries_2011.pdf

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Students apply their skills to optimise the supply chain processes in a mortuary and histology laboratory.

Blood, organs and autopsies. You may be thinking we're a little late for Halloween, and these are not your typical supply chain-related topics. For

two bright, young supply chain students, however, a mortuary and a histology laboratory presented the ideal environments in which to conduct

a supply chain optimisation project.

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Blood autopsies and supply chain optimisation_SAPICS2010.pdf

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Some highlights from the report for October to December 2010:

• The branch communicates with members and potential members via Google Groups and Face-Book Page. These platform have given Industrial Engineers opportunity to shape the destine of SAIIE Gauteng Branch and exchange views as practising Industrial Engineers.
• The branch has adopted a plan to assist Head of Departments of Academic Institutions in Gauteng to identify suitable qualify, experience, passionate and influential Industrial Engineers to serve on Academic Advisory Committees.
• The Head of Student Branches met TUT and UP Student Branch Chairpersons to facilitate a workshop of five SAIIE Student Branch Executive Committees.

Read the full report by logging on to the SAIIE website

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SAIIEGautengBranch2010Q4Report (1).doc

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10/02/11 09:54

Progress: Training and Professional Development under a Commitment and Undertaking (CU) with ECSA and Mentorship requirements

 By Johan Louw

Numerous young engineers start their careers after completing their studies and grabble with the questions regarding professional registration. Typically issues that are raised:

• Is there a recognized development program I can follow?
• Availability of an experienced mentor in the company I work for?
• Will the company I work for support the registration process to follow?
• Etc.

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INTRODUCTION

As part of the 2010 SAIIE conference, forum discussions were included. The purpose is to give the delegates the opportunity to ask questions to learned and experienced people in an open forum.

For the Academic-Industry discussion the process was altered to accommodate the large number of delegates and to tap the genius of each within the limited time.

This document describes the process, summarizes the views given and gives some views on the road ahead.

Open the attachement..... and...

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SAIEE CONGRESS 2010 Proceedings of the Academia and Industry Forum.pdf

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01/11/10 08:43

You are invited to enjoy a free issueof Supply Chain Management Review magazine featuring 10 Classic articles.

Download your free issue now (pdf format).

From: Dieter Hartmann

During October, Wits University Industrial Engineering Department hosted the Gauteng chapter of the South African Continuous Improvement (CI) Forum. The CI forum is an industry round table that is hosted on a quarterly basis, rotating between participant institutions. This discussion circle classically involves presentations by the hosts and discussion afterwards. Most of the participants value the networking opportunities that this circle represents as well as the opportunity to learn from peers’ mistakes and successes.

Breaking with the traditional programme, Wits Industrial Engineering decided to present Industrial Engineering student projects that were done in the course of their third and fourth years. These were well received by the industry partners who are now excited to forge closer ties with the university. After this session, the previously general and open ended discussions were replaced by case studies that were specifically developed for this forum. The topics covered ranged from “CI at Home Affair” to “CI in hard rock mining” to “CI in the rollout of an effective Primary Healthcare-Promoters Network” the sessions were very well received and vigorous and lively debate was observed.

The day was rounded off with a campus tour at sunset, one of Johannesburg’s underrated inner city charms. Then during a lab tour, an opportunity for our guests to sit in our school’s Mirage Fighter Jet.

• If you would like to join the Johannesburg chapter of the CI Forum, get in touch with Jantine Zoethout at House of Performance at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

SAIIE introduced a corporate partner program in May this year. We thought that we needed to have a closer alliance with the companies in Southern Africa who employ Industrial Engineers, so as to involve them in the decisions that we as a voluntary association need to make to take this exciting engineering discipline into the future.

Our progress to date has been very exciting!