Due to unreliable production facility and stochastic preventive maintenance, deriving an optimal production inventory decision in practice is very complicated. In this paper, we develop a production model for deteriorating items with stochastic preventive maintenance time and rework using the...

This study explores an efficient approach for identifying chaotic phenomena in demands and develops a production lot-sizing method for chaotic demands. Owing to the butterfly effect of chaotic demands, precise prediction of long-term demands is difficult. The experiments conducted in this study...

In this note, we extend Pentico et al. (2011)'s [1] EPQ model where the authors considered two different backordering rates during shortage period; they assumed the backordering rate increases only from the start of production phase. We propose two models that allow the backordering rate to...