This note deals with the problem of minimising the expected sum of quadratic holding and shortage inventory costs when a single, failure-prone machine produces multiple part-types. Shu and Perkins (2001) introduce the problem and, by restricting the set of control policies to the class of...

This article addresses multi-stage assembly flow shop for the first time. We propose several industrial applications of this system in which the opening stage has m parallel machines and the following stages (e.g. assembly, transportation, painting, packaging, etc.) complete and prepare products...