Abstract
This paper considers the relationship between quality control and service provision. Since quality control efforts evidently impact the need for servicing, the joint design of both the levels of quality control and service capacity is warranted. A simple framework is developed to deal with this joint design problem. Two cases are considered. For degenerate probability functions of defective items, the quality control scheme becomes that of inspection screening. We show that, by considering the joint problem of inspection and service capacity, the cost function is no longer concave in screening efforts, and thus the optimal screening levels may not be simply 0 or 100%, as indicated by past studies. The capacity issue in fact leads to a higher level of screening in certain cases. For non-degenerate probability functions of defective items, sufficient conditions are derived, whereby the optimal quality control policy and servicing capacity can be readily obtained.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 261-273 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 14 1989 |
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Keywords
- economic design of quality control
- inspection screening
- Service capacity provision
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems and Management
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Applied Mathematics
- Modeling and Simulation
- Transportation
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Quality control and product servicing : A decision framework. / Tapiero, Charles; Lee, Hau L.
In: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 39, No. 3, 14.04.1989, p. 261-273.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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