TY - JOUR
T1 - On economically based quality control decisions
AU - Menipaz, Ehud
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A most important facet of industrial quality control is the economic design and evaluation of quality control procedures. Very little work of a general nature has been published on this problem, indicating a need for research in this field. Previous contributions to economically based quality control models fall into four basic types: models for the economic selection of a quality level, models for the design of optimal sampling plans, modeIs for the design of a sequence of sampling plans, and models for process control. Currently available economically based quality This paper has been partially supported by The National Research Council, Grant No. A-4127. An earlier version of this paper has been presented at the Canadian Operations Research Society Meeting, Toronto, May 17, 1976o © North-Holland Publishing Company European Journal of Operational Research 2 (1978) 246-256.
PY - 1978/1/1
Y1 - 1978/1/1
N2 - A new approach to the problem of quality control is investigated. It is based on the theories and models developed for optimal maintenance policies for equipment subject to stochastic failure. Four alternative sampling/inspection procedures are examined. They are easy to implement, do not require the process operator to compute his own operating decisions, and are capable of finding optimal intervals between successive samplings/inspections. Both fixed and variable costs are included in the models. Relatively efficient algorithms have been developed for finding the optimal quality control procedures; this is due, partially, to the simple form of the objective function.
AB - A new approach to the problem of quality control is investigated. It is based on the theories and models developed for optimal maintenance policies for equipment subject to stochastic failure. Four alternative sampling/inspection procedures are examined. They are easy to implement, do not require the process operator to compute his own operating decisions, and are capable of finding optimal intervals between successive samplings/inspections. Both fixed and variable costs are included in the models. Relatively efficient algorithms have been developed for finding the optimal quality control procedures; this is due, partially, to the simple form of the objective function.
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U2 - 10.1016/0377-2217(78)90040-1
DO - 10.1016/0377-2217(78)90040-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0017994489
SN - 0377-2217
VL - 2
SP - 246
EP - 256
JO - European Journal of Operational Research
JF - European Journal of Operational Research
IS - 4
ER -