Lot sizing when yields increase during the production run

Lot sizing when yields increase during the production run

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Article ID: iaor1997843
Country: United States
Volume: 43
Issue: 8
Start Page Number: 1035
End Page Number: 1048
Publication Date: Dec 1996
Journal: Naval Research Logistics
Authors: ,
Keywords: inventory
Abstract:

The authors investigate the problem of determining lot sizes for multiple items when the expected percentage of acceptable output increases with the duration of the production run, usually due to adjustments made during the early part of the production run. Such problems arise in metal stamping, textile finishing processes, and a variety of other industries. The goal is to minimize the total cost of production, inventory holding costs, and setup costs (where applicable). The authors develop a heuristic procedure based on a Lagrangian relaxation that differs from relaxations used in earlier studies. They use various properties of the objective function to guide the adjustment of the initial solution from the relaxation toward feasibility. Computational results indicate that, on the average, the heuristic produces solutions within 4.9% of the lower bound obtained from the Lagrangian relaxation.

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