A novel approach for treating the uncertainty about the real levels of finished products during production planning and scheduling process
is presented in the paper. Interval arithmetic is used to describe uncertainty concerning the production that was planned to cover potential
defective products, but meets customer’s quality requirement and can be delivered as fully valuable products. Interval lot sizing and
scheduling model to solve this problem is proposed, then a dedicated version of genetic algorithm that is able to deal with interval
arithmetic is used to solve the test problems taken from a real-world example described in the literature. The achieved results are compared
with a standard approach in which no uncertainty about real production of valuable castings is considered. It has been shown that interval
arithmetic can be a valuable method for modeling uncertainty, and proposed approach can provide more accurate information to the
planners allowing them to take more tailored decisions.