The issue of vendor choice has traditionally not been considered in determining the optimal set of products to produce. That is, component purchase has typically been considered only at the MRP explosion stage, well after the set of products to produce and their production quantities has been...

A supersaturated design is a factorial design in which the number of effects to be estimated is greater than the number of runs. It is used in many experiments, for screening purpose, i.e., for studying a large number of factors and identifying the active ones. In this paper, we propose a method...

In the context of life-testing, progressive censoring has been studied extensively. But, all the results have been developed under the key assumption that the units under test are independently distributed. In this paper, we consider progressively Type-II censored order statistics (PCOS-II)...