Article ID: | iaor2007600 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 166 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 475 |
End Page Number: | 488 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2005 |
Journal: | Applied Mathematics and Computation |
Authors: | Wang Jinting, Srinivasan Raj |
Keywords: | inventory |
We investigate a production–inventory system in which an unreliable machine is susceptible to failure following which it must be repaired to make it operative again. The inter-arrival times of demand arrival processes are assumed to be hyper-exponentially distributed, demand sizes are i.i.d. random variables. An