Acceptance sampling had become an essential practical tool for quality assurance application, closely related with incoming inspection. Acceptance sampling plans provide the decision rule for product acceptance to meet the preset product quality required by the vendor and the buyer. As today’s modern paradigm of quality improvement, reduction of variance from the target value is the guiding pri...

in acceptance-sampling plans, the items of an incoming lot are inspected one by one. if the number of nonconforming items in sample is equal zero, the lot is accepted but if the number of nonconforming items is equal to one, then second sample is taken and the policy of zero acceptance number would be applied for the second sample. in this paper, a mathematical model is developed to design sing...

This study proposes a new repetitive group sampling plan by attributes based on truncated life test under the Weibull distributions with known shape parameter. The constrained optimization problem is formulated as a nonlinear integer programming to determine the sample size and the acceptance criterion of the proposed plan. The objective function to be minimized is the average sample number, wh...