Simultaneous determination of optimal inspection allocation and starting batch size in a serial production system

Abstract

For serial multi-stage production systems, allocation of inspection activities and initial batch size are important factors in terms of the system cost. The aim of this study is to simultaneously determines these two decision variables in a way that minimizes the inspection and inventory related cost. For the network model developed, a computational procedure of finding an optimal solution is proposed utilizing the shortest route algorithm. And a numerical problem is solved to show the validity of the procedure.