Article ID: | iaor2004499 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 1/2 |
Start Page Number: | 1 |
End Page Number: | 13 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Journal: | Computers & Mathematics with Applications |
Authors: | Cao Jinhua, Liu Bin, Wang Jinting |
Keywords: | inventory: order policies, stochastic processes |
A production–inventory system is studied in which an unreliable machine is susceptible to failure following which it must be repaired to make it operative again. The demand for the product is governed by a two-phase Erlang process and demand sizes are independent and identically distributed random variables. A two-critical-number policy