In multi-stage manufacturing systems, optimisation of part quality inspection planning (PQIP)
problem means to determine the optimal time, place and extent of inspection activities for …

Quality inspections are performed in almost every production system to prevent
nonconforming products from reaching final customers or end users. Quality inspections are …

We study a dual delivery risk problem that firms inside the free trade zones (FTZ) along the
US-Mexico border (ie, maquiladoras) often face in their daily operations. It is commonly …

Quality control at every stage of manufacturing is a key aspect of the quality management
system of any organization. Inspection at different stages of manufacturing is essential to …

Health care services in any country influence a considerable part of the economic, social,
and political systems; researchers are trying to improve the quality of health care to realize …

The reliability of a technical object can be understood as the probability of the object
achieving the specified requirements. It is closely related to durability, ie the ability of an …

In this paper, we present an agile integrated inspection-operation planning model wherein
inspection actions are planned alongside the machining operations to make the production …

During product inspection, Type I and Type II errors, widely considered to assess product
quality, are represented by erroneously rejecting non-defective products and erroneously …

This paper proposes an approach to the planning and optimization of quality inspections
within a multistage manufacturing process based on quality costs and the value added to the …

Implementing efficient inspection policies is much important for the organizations to reduce
quality related costs. In this paper, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is …