In this paper, we study an economic production quantity (EPQ) problem in which an item is produced by a single machine. We assume that the machine may fail in an exponential random time. The repair time is an exponential ...

In this paper, we study an economic production quantity (EPQ) problem in which an item is produced by a single machine. We assume that the machine may fail in an exponential random time. The repair time is an exponential ...

This paper develops a production-inventory model which is subject to breakdowns, and studies the influence of outsourcing on the expected total cost and the fill rate in case of any failure in the production facility. To ...