TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pham Thi Thu Ha
AU  - Nagarur,Nagendra N.
AU  - Huynh,Ngoc Phien
AU  - Pastijn,Hugo
TI  - Design of the specification limits for multi-stage multi-characteristic inspection procedures
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Production standards
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of  Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies; Thesis (M. Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1996
N2  - In this study a model for designing an inspection procedure is developed. The  model is concerned with the inspection procedure in a se1ial production system. In this  system each item must pass through some stages to become a finished product. At the  termination of each stage there is a potential inspection station at which multiple  charactedstic of the items can be inspected. An item with any characte1istic that do not  confo1m to predete1mined specification limit is scrapped. It is assumed that the  characte1istics are statistically independent but the decision of whether to accept or reject  an item at each stage depend on rejection cost at current stage and total expected  acceptance cost of all characteiistics at later stages. The charactedstics can be under The N ominal-The-Best, The-Smaller-The-Best or The-Larger-The-Best tolerance type.  Decision vaiiables are inspection rates and specification limits of the charactedstics.  Objective function to be minimized is per-item expected total cost, which includes per item expected rejection cost, acceptance cost and inspection cost.  An alg01ithm is proposed to find the optimum solution of the model. A program in  Pascal language is developed to test the alg01ithm using real data collected.  A study of a real production system with its current inspection procedure is  provided. The model is applied to this production system. The solution de1ived is  compared with the current solution in the production system to illustrate an economic  advantage of the model proposed
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