Article ID: | iaor1991909 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 139 |
End Page Number: | 144 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
Journal: | Engineering Costs and Production Economics |
Authors: | Sinuany-Stern Z., Friedman Lea, Golenko-Ginzburg D. |
A production system operates at a speed which is a random variable, with a known distribution function. Given the routine control point, the actual accumulated production observed at that point, and the rate of demand, the decision-maker determines the next control point. Consequently the interval between two control points will be maximum or minimum under a probabilistic constraint that insures that at any point the actual production will not fall below the planned production at a given confidence level 1-