
Callychurn Devkumar SUniversity of Mauritius | UoM · Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering
Callychurn Devkumar S
Doctor of Philosophy
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The notion of sustainability has greatly evolved since the 1960s. As the global population is increasing along with the consumption rate, it is becoming urgent to alleviate the negative impacts of this growth while in parallel allowing for continuous enhancements in environmental quality and overall living standards. This is where the need for sust...
The notion of sustainability has greatly evolved since the 1960s. As the global population is increasing along with the consumption rate, it is becoming urgent to alleviate the negative impacts of this growth while, in parallel, allowing for continuous enhancements in environmental quality and overall living standards. This is where the need for su...
Sustainability has emerged as one of the megatrends in the food processing industries prevails as one of the most important items on the agenda of many companies. The major sustainability domains: environmental, social and economic aspects are topics that companies are called to focus on nowadays for achieving success. These include, utilisation of...
The review paper investigated the responsive strategies in a complex and volatile environment. The study adopted refined keywords to find relevant literature, which includes: "supplier", "responsive", "strategies", "disruption", "pandemic", "war". The study extracted 100 articles from two databases: ScienceDirect and google scholar, published betwe...
As anywhere in the world, Mauritius has seen the depletion of its natural resources, mainly as a result of the effects of global warming. Industries need to recognize this and rethink on the way products are manufactured so as to minimize the negative impact of their businesses on the environment, the workforce and the surroundings. The main object...
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This project investigated into the design and construction of an isolation pod to keep infected people in quarantine, thus avoiding the spread of viruses such as the COVID-19. This product was made to be used in hospitals and at homes.
Background:
Mauritius is among the few countries, which has not had any cases of COVID-19 since for...
It has been long recognized that environmental matters are important to the survival of manufacturing companies.
Yet manufacturing companies continue to degrade the environment, over exploit natural resources and
generate unmanageable amount of wastes. Manufacturing is not just about financial returns, but it should also be
conscious of the long-te...
It has been long recognized that environmental matters are important to the survival of manufacturing companies. Yet manufacturing companies continue to degrade the environment, over exploit natural resources and generate unmanageable amount of wastes. Manufacturing is not just about financial returns, but it should also be conscious of the long-te...
This paper aims at evaluating the possibility of improving the performance of cogeneration plants through typical performance parameters like the cogeneration plant efficiency, the steam consumption and the heat-to-power ratio. The ultimate objective of the investigation is to improve the performance of existing bagasse-based cogeneration plants an...
Nowadays manufacturing companies are more and more required to demonstrate sustainability in their operations to secure market share. In this context, companies are initially required to make an assessment of their current status before embarking on strategies for integrating sustainable practices to meet the expectations of regulators, customers a...
This study was undertaken to identify factors needed for a successful implementation of a total quality management (TQM) programme in Mauritian food manufacturing companies (MFMC) and to evaluate their impact on operational performance (OP), quality performance (QP) and business performance (BP). Carrying out reliability test and validity tests lik...
The Mauritian apparel industry has been facing a number of challenges as globalization and trade agreements have rocked the foundations of the world economy. The country's isolation from its main markets has caused the industry to lose its competitiveness, particularly in mass markets. This situation has deteriorated with the closure of many factor...
Mauritius embarked on an ambitious project of making the island a model of Sustainable Development in 2008. Over the last five years, the organizational set up for managing the project has been put in place, working groups have been constituted, a series of consultations with stakeholders have been made, a green paper has been published, awareness...
The hotel industry is a dynamic one in which the guest dictates the pace and type of service. Quality is one of the competitive priorities which enables hotels in the hospitality industry to survive. This paper aims to show the effectiveness of quality practices in hotels. The hypothesis that certification helped hotels to have higher performance l...