To access the efficient inventory system, managers should consider all the situations that have happened in reality. One of these situations is the presence of the defective items in each received lot and the other situation is being the group of customers that do not wait to fulfill their requirements from the vendor and choose another one to get their orders so the proportion of the backorder...

This paper focuses on an inventory model considering imperfect manufacturing and re-manufacturing system under single management. In manufacturing system, the items are produced from original raw materials but in re-manufacturing process, returned and defective items produced in previous manufacturing process are the raw materials. Both the production system shift from ‘ in control state ‘ to ‘...

There are various approaches to sorting alloys. Perhaps the most simple method and one which is in greatest use today is hand sortation, which is normally a rather inaccurate process. An opportunity exists to recover lowgrade nonferrous scrap by sorting it into various alloys with high accuracy by applying spectrographic analysis techniques. This article presents an alternative method for scrap...

A mixed integer non-linear optimization problem has been developed to aid in purchasing scrap steel. The model, which includes about 600 real-valued variables, 200 integers, and over 800 possible constraint equations, uses industrial data, actual market prices and supplier information to perform calculations. Prices, quality and supplier information are input or read into the model, along with ...

An investigation was conducted to determine the influence of recycled scrap tire rubber on the engineering properties of controlled low strength material (CLSM). With control over the ultimate compressive strength of CLSMs being key for applications such as backfilling utility trenches where re-excavation is often necessary, incorporation of scrap tire rubber into the CLSM mixture is a viable w...