Lee, Hau L.; Yano, Candace Arai Production control in multistage systems with variable yield losses. (English) Zbl 0642.90046 Oper. Res. 36, No. 2, 269-278 (1988). Many manufacturing processes involved in the fabrication and assembly of “high-tech” components have highly variable yields that complicate the planning and control of production. We develop a procedure to determine optimal input quantities at each stage of a serial production system in which process yields at each stage of production may be stochastic. The procedure is applied to an example in the manufacture of a light-emitting diode (LED) display using actual yield data. We also provide a brief analysis of the quantifiable savings obtained by reducing the variability of the yield at one production stage. Cited in 32 Documents MSC: 90B30 Production models Keywords:stochastic output yield; optimal input quantities; serial production system PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H. L. Lee} and \textit{C. A. Yano}, Oper. Res. 36, No. 2, 269--278 (1988; Zbl 0642.90046) Full Text: DOI Link