AccScience Publishing / IJOCTA / Volume 2 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.11121/ijocta.01.2012.0082
OPTIMIZATION & APPLICATIONS

Economic Order Quantity for Items with Two Types of Imperfect Quality

Muhammad AL-SALAMAH1 Omar ALSAWAFY2
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1 Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Majmaah University - Saudi Arabia
2 Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals - Saudi Arabia
Submitted: 22 September 2011 | Published: 27 December 2011
© 2011 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

The classical economic order quantity (EOQ) considers that the ordered items are of perfect  quality. In this research, a model for the economic order quantity of imperfect quality items is  developed, where the incoming lot has fractions of scrap and re-workable items. These fractions are  considered to be random variables with known probability density functions. The demand is satisfied  from perfect items and reworked items; whereas the scrap items are sold in a single batch at the end of  the cycle with a salvage cost. A numerical analysis is provided to illustrate the sensitivity of the model  to the fractions of scrap and reworked items.

Keywords
Inventory
Imperfect quality
Economic order quantity
Inspection rate
Rework rate
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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