This paper deals with the production planning and control of a single product involving combined manufacturing and remanufacturing operations within a closed-loop reverse logistics network with machines subject to random failures and repairs. While consumers traditionally dispose of products at...

We investigate the simultaneous production planning and quality control problem for an unreliable single machine manufacturing system responding to a single product type demand. The machine is subject to deteriorations, and their effect is observed mainly on the rate of defectives, which...