Planning quality inspection operations in multistage manufacturing systems with inspection errors

摘要

The management of resources dedicated for the appraisal of critical product quality attributes is a matter of increasing importance in multistage manfuactur- ing systems. An interesting quality planning problem lies in the operation imple- mentation of a quality inspection policy to select specific locations and machines for inspection activities. In this research, a mathematical model is developed for soving the inspection allocation and assignment problems in a multistage manu- facturing system.