Moinzadeh, Kamran; Klastorin, T. D. - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 3, pp. 513-523
and stop the machine if a defective unit is found. More important, we place a "delay buffer" immediately after the … line and examine all previously uninspected items in the delay buffer; in this way, the buffer serves to reduce the … illustrate our hypothesis that a delay buffer may significantly reduce expected total costs of a quality control process. …