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On the Optimum Location of Checking Stations

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  • Henry A. Young

    (Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts)

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Items move uniformly from the initial to the terminal point of a route. Checking stations that detect and repair imperfect items can be located along the route. If the condition of an item changes from “perfect” to “imperfect,” an operating cost is incurred which increases with the distance traveled in the imperfect condition to the nearest checking station. Given an arbitrary increasing operating cost function, data on the likelihood of failure of an item at any point enroute, the volume of traffic per unit time and the cost per unit time of maintaining a checking station, the dynamic programming technique is used to find the number and placement of checking stations which minimize the sum of operating and checking costs. The model is applicable to the problem of locating “hot-box” detectors along a railroad right-of-way. The analysis of the convex cost functional involved may be of independent interest.

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  • Henry A. Young, 1963. "On the Optimum Location of Checking Stations," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 11(5), pages 721-731, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:11:y:1963:i:5:p:721-731
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.11.5.721
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    1. Anna Rotondo & Paul Young & John Geraghty, 2013. "Quality risk prediction at a non-sampling station machine in a multi-product, multi-stage, parallel processing manufacturing system subjected to sequence disorder and multiple stream effects," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 209(1), pages 255-277, October.

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