The purpose of this study is to combine production-inventory management with process-quality design for determining production lot size and process parameters under the possibility of process deterioration and breakdown. The total cost of such an integrated model includes: the combined setup...

The work desires: 1) to determine the optimum level of batch size in bottleneck facility; 2) to analyse the effect of common processes on throughput and cycle time in a multistage production system under machine breakdown and quality uncertainty. In this research, the authors developed...

We consider a make-to-stock system served by an unreliable machine that produces one type of product, which is sold to customers at one of two possible prices depending on the inventory level at the time when a customer arrives (i.e., the decision point). The system manager must determine the...

In a recent study [Chiu et al., 2007. Determining the optimal run time for EPQ model with scrap, rework, and stochastic breakdowns. European Journal of Operational Research 180, 664–676], the perfect rework of nonconforming items was assumed in a production system that is subject to stochastic...

The optimal replenishment policy for an economic production quantity (EPQ)-based inventory model with nonconforming items and breakdown is presented. A real-life production system inevitably generates nonconforming items and has equipment breakdowns owing to process deterioration or other...

This paper analyses the effects of various maintenance policies and part arrival patterns on the performance of a flexible manufacturing cell (FMC). A simulation analysis coupled with design of experiments is utilised in the study. In particular, the design of experiments includes maintenance...

This paper deals with the condition-based maintenance of single-unit systems which are subject to the competing and dependent failures due deterioration and traumatic shock events. The main aim is to provide a model to assess the value of condition monitoring information for the maintenance...

A block preventive maintenance (PM) policy for a multi-unit system composed of identical units is investigated in this paper. The block PM model of this paper considers periodic inspection and periodic imperfect maintenance. The imperfect maintenance effects are formulated using improvement...

Der Aufsatz zeigt auf, unter welchen Voraussetzungen bei anfälligen Reparaturn zusätzliche Reparaturen vorzunehmen oder weitere Ersatzteile zu erneuern sind. Außerdem wird dargelegt, welche Instandhaltungzeitpunkte bzw. Servicezeiträume optimal sind.

Das (Oper Res 25(5):835–850, <CitationRef CitationID="CR4">1977</CitationRef>) considered the optimization of a cost function associated with an (S − 1, S) inventory model assuming the parameters to be the initial number of items in the stock and the service rate. A similar optimization problem associated with an M/E <Subscript> k </Subscript>/1 queueing...</subscript></citationref>