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<journal-id>1665-6423</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Journal of applied research and technology]]></journal-title>
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<issn>1665-6423</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología]]></publisher-name>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Reexamination of "Combining an alternative multi-delivery policy into economic production lot size problem with partial rework" Using an Alternative Approach]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Chiu]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Y-S. P.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Chen]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[K-K.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Cheng]]></surname>
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<surname><![CDATA[Ting]]></surname>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Chaoyang University of Technology Department of Industrial Engineering and Management ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Taiwan ]]></addr-line>
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<institution><![CDATA[,National Changhua University of Education College of Management Department of Accounting]]></institution>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Feng Chia University Department of Industrial Engineering & Systems Management ]]></institution>
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<month>06</month>
<year>2013</year>
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<month>06</month>
<year>2013</year>
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<volume>11</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>317</fpage>
<lpage>323</lpage>
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</front><body><![CDATA[  	    <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>Reexamination of "<i>Combining an alternative multi&#45;delivery policy into economic production lot size problem with partial rework</i>" Using an Alternative Approach</b></font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Y&#45;S. P. Chiu,<sup>1</sup> K&#45;K. Chen<sup>2</sup>, F&#45;T. Cheng,<sup>3</sup> C&#45;K. Ting*<sup>1</sup></b></font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><sup>1</sup><i> Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Chaoyang University of Technology Taichung 413, Taiwan.</i> *<a href="mailto:djk@cyut.edu.tw">djk@cyut.edu.tw</a>.</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><sup>2</sup> Department of Accounting, College of Management National Changhua University of Education Changhua 500, Taiwan.</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><sup>3</sup> Department of Industrial Engineering &amp; Systems Management Feng Chia University Taichung 407, Taiwan.</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>ABSTRACT</b></font></p>  	    ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">A conventional approach for solving an economic production quantity (EPQ) model with multi&#45;delivery policy and quality assurance is to use mathematical modeling for deriving the system cost function and to employ differential calculus for proving convexity of the cost function before determining the optimal operating policy. This paper presents a simplified solution procedure to reexamine a specific EPQ model &#91;1&#93; and demonstrates that both, the optimal manufacturing lot size and the long&#45;run cost function can be derived without derivatives. The proposed approach may enable practitioners&#45;with little knowledge of calculus&#45;to understand such a real life vendor&#45;buyer integrated system with ease.</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Keywords:</b> manufacturing system, replenishment lot size, discontinuous issuing policy, algebraic approach, imperfect EPQ model, rework.</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><a href="/pdf/jart/v11n3/v11n3a1.pdf" target="_blank">DESCARGAR ART&Iacute;CULO EN FORMATO PDF</a></font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&nbsp;</font></p>  	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><i><b>References</b></i></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&#91;1&#93; S. W. Chiu et al., "Combining an alternative multi&#45;delivery policy into economic production lot size problem with partial rework," Expert Syst. Appl., vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 2578&#45;2583, 2012.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=4837025&pid=S1665-6423201300030000100001&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    <!-- ref --><p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">&#91;2&#93; E. W. Taft, "The most economical production lot," Iron Age, vol. 101, pp.1410&#45;1412, 1918.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=4837027&pid=S1665-6423201300030000100002&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></font></p>  	    ]]></body>
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