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Selection And Evaluation Of Most Profitable Process Targets For The Control Of Canning Quality

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volume

28

Issue

2

First Page

259

Last Page

266

Abstract

A noniterative numerical method is proposed for solving the Hunter and Kartha model to determine the most profitable target for a canning process. Given a specified lower limit which determines the acceptability of the product, the method produces an almost exact estimate of the optimal process mean. Only a pair of estimating constants and percentiles of the distribution of fill are needed for this purpose. Simple formulas are also derived to compute the optimal expected profit and the average contents of underfilled and overfilled cans. Using these formulas the effects of adopting a target on process outputs and the benefit of reducing the process variability or improving the salvage value of the product can be examined to validate the model. © 1995.

Department

Department of Management

Original Publication Date

1-1-1995

DOI of published version

10.1016/0360-8352(94)00195-S

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