Economic optimization of off-line inspection in a process subject to failure and recovery

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 995-1009

  Finkelshtein, Alexander ^a,c,d   Herer, Yale T ^b,e   Raz, Tzvi ^c,f   Ben Gal, Irad ^c,g,h  

^a Economic Department   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d Economic Department   (Israel)

^e Northwestern University   (United States)

^f Henry Crown Institute of Business Research   (Israel)

^g Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences

^h Institute of Industrial Engineers

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL;

DISPOSITION ERROR COSTS; INSPECTION COSTS;

INSPECTION;

EID: 29144503897     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170500232149     Document Type: Article

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