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Comparison among Certain Inspection Policies

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  • A. G. Munford

    (University of Exeter, England)

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Certain continuous production processes and early warning systems must be inspected in order to detect failures that would otherwise not be apparent. An optimal inspection policy is a sequence of inspection times which minimizes the average cost per inspection cycle relative to some cost model. Under both an existing cost model, and a new cost model proposed in this paper, the computation of such policies is difficult. Three sub-optimal inspection policies are proposed, each, like the optimal policy, having decreasing times between successive inspections when the time to system failure has increasing hazard rate. Numerical comparisons are given for both cost models in the case of Weibull failure times.

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  • A. G. Munford, 1981. "Comparison among Certain Inspection Policies," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 27(3), pages 260-267, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:27:y:1981:i:3:p:260-267
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.27.3.260
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    1. Panagiotidou, S. & Tagaras, G., 2012. "Optimal integrated process control and maintenance under general deterioration," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 58-70.
    2. Anthony Rossiter & Susan M Hester, 2017. "Designing Biosecurity Inspection Regimes to Account for Stakeholder Incentives: An Inspection Game Approach," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 93(301), pages 277-301, June.
    3. Giri, B.C. & Dohi, T., 2007. "Inspection scheduling for imperfect production processes under free repair warranty contract," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 183(1), pages 238-252, November.
    4. M Hariga & N Azaiez, 2006. "Heuristic procedures for the single facility inspection problem with minimal repair and increasing failure rate," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 57(9), pages 1081-1088, September.
    5. Chakraborty, Tulika & Giri, B.C. & Chaudhuri, K.S., 2009. "Production lot sizing with process deterioration and machine breakdown under inspection schedule," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 37(2), pages 257-271, April.

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