TY - JOUR
T1 - Inspection allocation for multistage deteriorating production systems
AU - Emmons, Hamilton
AU - Rabinowitz, Gad
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge: the support of the Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics Research and Production Management at the Ben Gurion University.
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - The paper deals with the layout and operation of an inspection system used for detecting malfunctioning processors in a multistage production system. This problem involves three inter-related decisions: (i) the overall inspection capacity; (ii) the assignment of inspection tasks to inspectors; and (iii) the scheduling of the inspector's tasks. These decisions require a trade-off between the cost of inspectors and the loss associated with non-conforming products. A hierarchical heuristic solution procedure is proposed to support these three related decisions. Numerical experiments demonstrate the performance of the heuristic, showing that solution criteria are very close to their lower bounds. Although we use production terminology, the results might be applicable to any organization, which inspects and maintains a variety of characteristics of its branches or activities.
AB - The paper deals with the layout and operation of an inspection system used for detecting malfunctioning processors in a multistage production system. This problem involves three inter-related decisions: (i) the overall inspection capacity; (ii) the assignment of inspection tasks to inspectors; and (iii) the scheduling of the inspector's tasks. These decisions require a trade-off between the cost of inspectors and the loss associated with non-conforming products. A hierarchical heuristic solution procedure is proposed to support these three related decisions. Numerical experiments demonstrate the performance of the heuristic, showing that solution criteria are very close to their lower bounds. Although we use production terminology, the results might be applicable to any organization, which inspects and maintains a variety of characteristics of its branches or activities.
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U2 - 10.1080/07408170208928932
DO - 10.1080/07408170208928932
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036887768
SN - 0740-817X
VL - 34
SP - 1031
EP - 1041
JO - IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)
JF - IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)
IS - 12
ER -