Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) applications in health have generally relied on frequentist interpretations for statistical validity. Yet health professionals often seek statements about the probability distribution of unknown parameters to answer questions of interest. The frequentist paradigm does not pretend to yield such information, although a Bayesian formulation might. This is the ...

Binomial data with unknown sizes often appear in biological and medical sciences. The previous methods either use the Poisson approximation or the quasi-likelihood approach. A full likelihood approach is proposed by treating unknown sizes as latent variables. This approach simplifies analysis as maximum likelihood estimation can be applied. It also facilitates us to gain a lot more insights int...

The automotive industry is distinguished by regionalization and customization of products. As consequence, the diversity of products will increase while the lot sizes will decrease. Thus more product types have to be handled along the process chain and common production paradigms will failure. Hence, Rapid Manufacturing (RM) will be used for manufacturing small individual lot sizes. Nevertheles...

An effective planning of lot sizes is a key strategy to efficiently manage a combined manufacturing/ remanufacturing system in the presence of substantial setup costs. Due to its complex interdependencies, optimal policies and solutions have not been identified so far, but several heuristic approaches have been analyzed in recent contributions. The main heuristic shortcuts are forcing equally s...

This study is an extension of the Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) that takes into accounts the warehouse-space restrictions in a distribution center. The focus of this study is to determine the lot sizes of each product under power-of-two policy to minimize the total costs per unit time and to generate a feasible replenishment schedule of multiple products without exceeding the available war...

The model presented in this paper assumes that a uniform lot size is produced through a series of manufacturing stages, with a single set-up mud without interruption at each stage. Transportation of partial lots, called batches, is allowed between stages after the whole batch is completed. The batch sizes must he equal at any particular stage, but the optimal number of equal-sized batches may d...