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Papers

(The median citation count of Quality Engineering is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Visualization and comparison of aircraft trajectories using Gaussian-Smoothed heatmaps	85
Cautious parameter learning for a joint mean and variance monitoring CUSUM scheme with guaranteed in-control performance	33
Statistical engineering – Part 1: Past and present	22
A fresh look at computer vision for industrial quality control	20
Automated, rapid, and convergent hyperparameter optimizer (ARCH) for neural network classifiers	18
Implementation of Quality 4.0, a systematic review of approaches, root causes, and challenges	17
Hybrid fault diagnostics and prognostics system development for motor bearings health monitoring	14
Simultaneous classification and out-of-distribution detection for wafer bin maps	14
Alternative parameter learning schemes for monitoring process stability	13
Critical success factors for implementing Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: A systematic literature review	13
Sequential Bayesian assurance tests for degradation data	12
Digital twins in quality engineering	12
Efficient ARL estimation for general control charts using censored run lengths	12
Understanding and addressing complexity in problem solving	11
Introduction to special edition of Quality Engineering	11
Editorial for reliability engineering special issue	11
Evaluation of manufacturing process in low variety high volume industry with the coupling of cloud model theory and TOPSIS approach	10
Estimation of the lot fraction defective in a finite lot of products with auxiliary quality characteristics	9
Empowering software reliability: Leveraging efficient fault detection and removal efficiency	8
Correlation to causality	8
Reliability analysis for continuous degrading systems subject to multi-level failure dependence	8
An exponentially weighted moving average control chart based on signed ranks for finite horizon processes	7
Letter to the quality engineering editor	7
Particle swarm exchange algorithms with applications in generating optimal model-discrimination designs	7
Application of a proposed reliability analysis multivariate capability index on manufacturing processes	7

Using principles and selected tools of Lean Six Sigma to improve sustainability: A case study	7
A method for robust design of products or processes with categorical response	7
Intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearings based on clustering algorithm of fast search and find of density peaks	6
Robust yield test for a normal production process	6
A class of response surface split-plot designs	6
Designing a variables two-plan sampling system with adjustable acceptance criteria for lot disposition	6
Statistical process monitoring for vector autoregressive time series based on location-scale CUSUM method	6
An adaptive exponentially weighted moving average control chart for poisson processes	6
Optimal design of a two-point variables skip-lot sampling plan with Taguchi capability index	6
A mixture model application in monitoring error message rates for a distributed industrial fleet	6
Exploratory image data analysis for quality improvement hypothesis generation	6
Bayesian analysis of accelerated life test under constrained randomization	6
Image based statistical process monitoring via partial first order stochastic dominance	5
A Conversation with Douglas C. Montgomery	5
Modeling the output from a commercial chemical process using regression models from survival analysis	5
Robust confidence intervals for the process capability index C _pk with bootstrap improvement	5
A new approach to risk assessment in failure mode and effect analysis based on engineering textual data	5
Enhanced problem solving through redefined 8D step completion criteria	5
Toward a concept of digital twin for monitoring assembly and disassembly processes	5
Tukey-EWMA control chart with variable sampling intervals for process monitoring	5
Boundary peeling: An outlier detection method	4
Design construction and model selection for small mixture-process variable experiments with high-dimensional model terms	4
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	4
A conversation with William Q. Meeker	4
CUSUM design for detection of event-rate increases for a Poisson process	4
Early fault diagnosis based on reinforcement learning optimized-SVM model with vibration-monitored signals	4
Gauge R & R studies for angular measurements	4
An online approach for robust parameter design with incremental Gaussian process	3
A Bayesian nonparametric system reliability model which integrates multiple sources of lifetime information	3
Functional data analysis and nonlinear regression models: an information quality perspective	3
A neural network-based control chart for monitoring and interpreting autocorrelated multivariate processes using layer-wise relevance propagation	3
A new incapability index for simple linear profile with asymmetric tolerances	3
Assessing the performance of control charts for detecting previously unexplored shift types in high density spatial data	3
Quality process reengineering in industry 4.0: A BPR perspective	3
An improved multiple quality characteristic analysis chart for simultaneous monitoring of process mean and variance of steering knuckle pin for green manufacturing	3
Statistical engineering – Part 2: Future	3
Data quality and statistics: Perfect together?	3
I -optimal or G -optimal: Do we have to choose?	3
A Conversation with Christine M. Anderson-Cook	3
Real-time adjustment of injection molding process settings by utilizing Design of Experiment, time series profiles and PLS-DA	3
A process capability function approach to multiple response surface optimization based on a posterior procedure	3
Contextual anomaly detection for multivariate time series data	3
Corporation-wide variation reduction	3
Case study: Accounting for response measurement error in fitting a regression model	3
The case against generally weighted moving average (GWMA) control charts	3
On experimental designs for gauge R & R studies including some long forgotten ones	3
A simple test to determine the contributors of fraction nonconforming shifts in a multivariate binomial process	3
Reliability analysis of heat exchanging system of deep-sea manned submersibles using Markov model	2
A comparative study for parameter estimation of the Weibull distribution in a small sample size: An application to spring fatigue failure data	2
Hidden dimensions of the data: PCA vs autoencoders	2

Optimized control charts using indifference regions	2
Three-level designs under second order models	2
Lean, data, and statistics	2
Dynamic maintenance model for a repairable multi-component system using deep reinforcement learning	2
Mutual combination of selected principles and technologies of Industry 4.0 and quality management methods - case study	2
A review of leveraged sample selection in variation reduction projects	2
A control chart for monitoring images using jump location curves	2
A reliability approach for prediction and management of part obsolescence for improved system health	2
A consistent data model for different data granularity in control charts	2
Leveraging what you know: Versatile space-filling designs	2
Reliability modeling for failure correlations to a CNC lathe subsystem based on Pagerank Algorithm	2
Remembering George EP Box in Quality Quandaries: great ideas, practical advice, clearly presented	2
Robust control chart based on mixed-effects modeling framework: A case study in NAND flash memory industry	2
Reliability modeling for multi-component system subject to dependent competing failure processes with phase-type distribution considering multiple shock sources	2
Product quality prediction based on process data: Taking the gearbox of Company D as an example	2
Reliability analysis for systems subject to dependent and competing failure processes with random failure thresholds	2
Using a baseline with the probability of agreement to compare distribution characteristics	2
Assurance of electronic parts for aerospace system reliability: Past, present, and future	2
Outlier detection and online monitoring of event sequences arising in customer service processes with unknown event-types	2
Online monitoring of nonlinear profiles using a Gaussian process model with heteroscedasticity	2
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	2
Step-stress tests for interval-censored data under gamma lifetime distribution	2
Joint component-system maintenance planning over entire system task profile	2
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	2
An integrated failure-censored sampling scheme for lifetime-performance verification and validation under a Weibull distribution	1
Equivalences between multiple dependent state sampling, chain sampling, and control chart runs rules	1
Quality 4.0: Learning quality control, the evolution of SQC/SPC	1
A note on compositional data gauge R&R studies	1
MR-RF: A robust data mining method for multiresponse optimization using a random forest	1
Testing the prediction profiler with disallowed combinations—A statistical engineering case study	1
On reading Youden: Learning about the practice of statistics and applied statistical research from a master applied statistician	1
Multivariate Six Sigma: A case study in an outpatient pharmaceutical care unit	1
Reliability-based optimization of imperfect preventive maintenance with Bayesian estimation	1
The interdisciplinary nature of network monitoring: Advantages and disadvantages	1
Developing a cost-efficient dual sampling system for lot disposition by considering process yield and quality loss	1
Statistical perspectives on reliability of artificial intelligence systems	1
Correction	1
On the application of compound optimal design strategy in progressively type-II censored life-testing experiments	1
A reliability prediction method considering degradation self-acceleration effect in DC-link electrolytic capacitor	1
Improved yield estimation with efficient decision power for multi-line processes	1
Accelerated failure time analysis for industrial life modeling in presence of unknown dependent and independent censoring	1
A high dimensional functional time series approach to evolution outlier detection for grouped smart meters	1
The role of the normal distribution in statistical process monitoring	1
A model for failure-time data with two dependent failure modes and prediction of future failures	1
Power guidelines for process monitoring	1
Tolerance interval for the exponential distribution with a specified ratio of the tail probabilities and generalizations	1
Monitoring univariate processes using control charts: Some practical issues and advice	1
Mining quality determinants of product-service systems from user-generated contents	1
The decay of Six Sigma and the rise of Quality 4.0 in manufacturing innovation	1
Foundations of network monitoring: Definitions and applications	1
A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	1
Correction	1
On nominal data gauge R & R studies	1
Response surfaces, blocking, and split plots: A predictive distribution case study	1
Correction	1
Using statistical engineering in pharmaceutical and biotech problem solving a case study	1
Flexible, efficient borrowing: A power prior structure for Bayesian interim analysis	1