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A production-inventory model in an imperfect production process

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The paper develops a model to determine the optimal product reliability and production rate that achieves the biggest total integrated profit for an imperfect manufacturing process. The basic assumption of the classical Economic Manufacturing Quantity (EMQ) model is that all manufacturing items are of perfect quality. The assumption is not true in practice. Most of the production system produces perfect and imperfect quality items. In some cases the imperfect quality (non conforming) items are reworked at a cost to restore its quality to the original one. Rework cost may be reduced by improvements in product reliability (i.e., decreasing in product reliability parameter). Lower value of product reliability parameter results in increase development cost of production and also smaller quantity of nonconforming products. The unit production cost is a function of product reliability parameter and production rate. As a result, higher development cost increases unit production cost. The problem of optimal planning work and rework processes belongs to the broad field of production-inventory model which deals with all kinds of reuse processes in supply chains. These processes aim to recover defective product items in such a way that they meet the quality level of 'good item'. The benefits from imperfect quality items are: regaining the material and value added on defective items and improving the environment protection. In this point of view, a model is introduced here to guide a firm/industry in addressing variable product reliability factor, variable unit production cost and dynamic production rate for time-varying demand. The paper provides an optimal control formulation of the problem and develops necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality of the dynamic variables. In this purpose, the Euler-Lagrange method is used to obtain optimal solutions for product reliability parameter and dynamic production rate. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the proposed model.

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  • Sana, Shib Sankar, 2010. "A production-inventory model in an imperfect production process," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 200(2), pages 451-464, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:200:y:2010:i:2:p:451-464
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