Dynamic Control of Quality in Production-inventory Systems

Quality control is a scientific means for conducting observations, tests, and inspections and thereby making decisions that improve the perfomance of industrial processes.This book develops a set of dynamic approaches characterized by coordination.In practice, quality control problems almost never exist in isolation.The basic methodology underlying the studies is Markov decision programming.The book can be used as a graduate text for a new course on statistical process control, or as a reference for researchers and practitioners in mathematics, operations research and operations management, quality control, production planning, and logistics.