This research is derived an integrated model of economic production quantity, inspection and preventive maintenance to incorporate rework, minimal repair and inspection time for an imperfect production system. Some proportions of non-conforming items are assumed scrap before the rework process start and others are reworked. The rework process is imperfect that is a proportion of the reworked it...

In the real world, vague phenomenon is quite common in the production/inventory models. In order to process the vagueness, a production/inventory model that can be more closely related to the real vagueness and can take account of the vague factors that contribute to production costs, is required. The model must be extended or altered to fit in with the fuzzy situation. Since items with imperfe...

Previous studies in the issue of inventory models with imperfect quality assumed the defectives could be sold in a batch by the end of the inspection process and the manufacturing systems were push systems. However, the above assumptions may not be true in the pull system in which buyer is powerful. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a new inventory model for items with imperfect quality and ...

In this paper, we first look at the issue of non-shortages in models with proportional imperfect quality, when the proportion of the imperfects is a random variable. More specifically we revisit the papers of Salameh and Jaber (Int. J. Prod. Econom. 64 (2000) 59) and Chan et al. (Prod. Plann. Control 14 (2003) 588) and we point out that the sufficient conditions given in these papers to ensure ...

the traditional economic production quantity (epq) model assumes that during the production process no imperfect item is produced. but in the real production system, due to imperfect production process or other factors, imperfect quality items may be produced. furthermore, it is well-known that the total production-inventory costs can be reduced by reworking the imperfect quality items produced...

It was suggested in 2004 by some researchers that it might be possible to improve production systems performance by applying the first and second laws of thermodynamics to reduce system entropy. Then these laws were used to modify the economic order quantity (EOQ) model to derive an equivalent entropic order quantity (EnOQ). Moreover the political instability or uncertainty of a country (as wel...

One of the celebrated extensions of the economic order/production quantity (EOQ/EPQ) model is one that assumes a received shipment contains a fraction of imperfect (non-conforming) quality items, where these items, detected by 100% screening, are sold as a single batch at a discounted price. This paper revisits this model (Salameh and Jaber, 2000, Int. J. Prod. Econ. 64 (1), 59–64) and extends ...