Literature in the area of revenue (or yield) management concentrates largely on the operational issues of maximising revenues. The issues of profitability have been considered in recent years but practical attempts to implement an approach which recognises the profitability of different market...

One of the major obstacles contributing to the cost, time and efficiency of improving the quality output of manufacturing systems is the propagation of defectives or errors through the system. Conventional individual control chart design does not address the problem of the interrelation of the...