Quality control for products supplied with warranty

Operations Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-115

  Chen, Jinfa ^a   Yao, David D ^a   Zheng, Shaohui ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality control: sequential inspection; Stochastic model applications: Markov decision program

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INSPECTION; PRODUCT LIABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REPAIR; SERVICE LIFE; VALUE ENGINEERING;

INSPECTION REPAIR COSTS; WARRANTY COSTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0031651778     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.46.1.107     Document Type: Article

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