Optimum Process Mean Setting for Product with Rework Process

Chung-Ho Chen  ¹ and Michael B. C. Khoo²

¹Department of Management and Information Technology, Southern Taiwan University, Yungkang, Taiwan 710, R.O.C.
²School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia

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