| Article ID: | iaor1993869 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 171 |
| End Page Number: | 174 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1992 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
| Authors: | Jafari Mohsen A., Boucher Thomas O. |
| Keywords: | quality & reliability |
In this note the authors derive an exact and approximate optimal solution to the problem of selecting a process level where the quality characteristic has known variability and inspection is done by variables as opposed to percent defective. The problem and the solution is shown to be related to work recently presented in this journal.