Chung-Ho Chen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1

1Department of Industrial Management, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Yung Kang, Taiwan 710, R.O.C.


 

Received: January 13, 2004
Accepted: December 16, 2004
Publication Date: March 1, 2005

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2005.8.1.10  


ABSTRACT


In 2000, Misiorek and Barnett extended Golhar and Pollock’s (1988) model with weights and measurements requirements for a filling process. They considered the normal quality characteristic and adopted the piecewise linear profit function for measuring the profit per fill. However, in the real world, many quality characteristics often show various types of skewed distribution. In this paper, we further propose the modified Misiorek and Barnett’s (2000) model with beta distribution for determining the optimum process mean.


Keywords: Piecewise Linear Profit Function, Beta Distribution, Process Mean, Process Standard Deviation


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