%0 Journal Article
	%A Yu-Jen Chang and  Shih-Chieh Chen and  Yu-Wei Kuo
	%D 2013
	%J International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 78, 2013
	%T A Search Algorithm for Solving the Economic Lot Scheduling Problem with Reworks under the Basic Period Approach
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/12920
	%V 78
	%X In this study, we are interested in the economic lot
scheduling problem (ELSP) that considers manufacturing of the
serviceable products and remanufacturing of the reworked products. In
this paper, we formulate a mathematical model for the ELSP with
reworks using the basic period approach. In order to solve this
problem, we propose a search algorithm to find the cyclic multiplier ki
of each product that can be cyclically produced for every ki basic
periods. This research also uses two heuristics to search for the optimal
production sequence of all lots and the optimal time length of the basic
period so as to minimize the average total cost. This research uses a
numerical example to show the effectiveness of our approach.
	%P 1270 - 1274