A note on 'deliberately slowing down output in a family production context'

In this paper, we consider the economic lot scheduling problem with control lable production rates and imperfect quality. The problem is to schedule th e production of several different items in the same facility on a repetitiv e basis. The facility is such that only one item can be produced at a time and the demand rate for each item is constant over an infinite planning hor izon. We focus on the case where quality is imperfect and yield rates decre ase with increased production rates and lot sizes. We show that the resulti ng lot sizes under the proposed extension are smaller. Also, we show that t he production rates for some products can be considerably different from th e case of perfect quality.