Optimizing the quality control station configuration

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-314

  Penn, Michal ^a   Raviv, Tal ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Branch and bound; Exponential process; Poisson process; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL;

BRANCH AND BOUND; EXPONENTIAL PROCESS; HOLDING COSTS; POISSON PROCESS; QUALITY CONTROL STATIONS (QCS);

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 34047198697     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20206     Document Type: Article

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