A simple approximation of the emq model with poisson machine failures

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 385-397

  Abboud, Nadim E ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Inventory; Poisson and regenerative processes; Production lot sizing; Reliability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

ECONOMIC MANUFACTURING QUALITY (EMQ) MODEL; ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY (EOQ) MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION PROCESSES; REGENERATIVE PROCESSES;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0031169483     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095372897235190     Document Type: Article

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