Productivity Improvement in Manufacturing SMEs (PDF)

Thomas Munyai is the lecturer and Head of department in Operations Management at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria South Africa. Currently He is a Doctoral student in Engineering Management at University of Technology with main focus on development of model to empower small business to enhance productivity in South Africa. He hold and MBA from UNISA, BSc (Hons.) Mathematical Statistics (Wits university), and BSc. in mathematics and statistics (University of Limpopo). He has 20 years' experience in manufacturing and food processing industry, as factory manager, operations manager, product and sales manager, procurement manager. His professional memberships include the South African Production and Inventory Control Society (SAPICS). His field of interest are optimization though linear and non-linear modelling, statistics, mathematics, process mapping modelling; information and technology and manufacturing technology.

Boysana Mbonyane is a senior lecturer in the Department of Operations Management at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Currently, he is a doctoral student in Engineering Management at the University of Johannesburg with a main focus on the development of a framework for efficiency in relation to physical and technological capital to yield continuous growth in small business in Gauteng, South Africa. He completed his master's in Business Leadership in 2014 and a master of Technology degree in Business Administration in 2007 at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He also completed his BCom (hons) in Industrial Psychology at the University of Johannesburg in 2006 and a BTech in Business Administration in 1999 at the University of South Africa. His undergraduate qualifications are a national diploma in Organization and Work Study, completed in 1995 at Technikon Witwatersrand. He spent 10 years in the mining industry and 10 years as a lecturer at the University of Johannesburg.