A note on “The EOQ repair and waste disposal model with switching costs”

•The extended EOQ repair and waste disposal model with switching costs is analyzed.•The optimal policy can have different structure depending on the parameters.•The impact of the switching cost becomes apparent for sufficiently high values.

The EOQ repair and waste disposal problem was studied first by Richter (1997) and was extended by Saadany and Jaber (2008) to the problem of minimizing the total cost of production, remanufacturing and inventory while incorporating additional switching costs. However, in their paper the authors did not provide a complete solution to this complex problem. We provide the solution in this note.

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