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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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Visualization and comparison of aircraft trajectories using Gaussian-Smoothed heatmaps	65
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	17
A fresh look at computer vision for industrial quality control	15
Simultaneous classification and out-of-distribution detection for wafer bin maps	15
Critical success factors for implementing Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: A systematic literature review	14
Alternative parameter learning schemes for monitoring process stability	13
Efficient ARL estimation for general control charts using censored run lengths	13
Digital twins in quality engineering	12
Image based statistical process monitoring via partial first order stochastic dominance	12
Sequential Bayesian assurance tests for degradation data	12
Introduction to special edition of Quality Engineering	11
Editorial for reliability engineering special issue	11
Understanding and addressing complexity in problem solving	10
Evaluation of manufacturing process in low variety high volume industry with the coupling of cloud model theory and TOPSIS approach	9
Correlation to causality	8
Estimation of the lot fraction defective in a finite lot of products with auxiliary quality characteristics	8
Implementation of Quality 4.0, a systematic review of approaches, root causes, and challenges	8
Reliability analysis for continuous degrading systems subject to multi-level failure dependence	8
Letter to the quality engineering editor	8
Empowering software reliability: Leveraging efficient fault detection and removal efficiency	8
Automated, rapid, and convergent hyperparameter optimizer (ARCH) for neural network classifiers	7
An exponentially weighted moving average control chart based on signed ranks for finite horizon processes	7
Application of a proposed reliability analysis multivariate capability index on manufacturing processes	7
CUSUM design for detection of event-rate increases for a Poisson process	7

A method for robust design of products or processes with categorical response	7
Using principles and selected tools of Lean Six Sigma to improve sustainability: A case study	6
Optimal design of a two-point variables skip-lot sampling plan with Taguchi capability index	6
Robust confidence intervals for the process capability index C _pk with bootstrap improvement	6
Particle swarm exchange algorithms with applications in generating optimal model-discrimination designs	6
Designing a variables two-plan sampling system with adjustable acceptance criteria for lot disposition	6
Intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearings based on clustering algorithm of fast search and find of density peaks	6
A mixture model application in monitoring error message rates for a distributed industrial fleet	6
A class of response surface split-plot designs	5
Bayesian analysis of accelerated life test under constrained randomization	5
Exploratory image data analysis for quality improvement hypothesis generation	5
Robust yield test for a normal production process	5
An adaptive exponentially weighted moving average control chart for poisson processes	5
A new approach to risk assessment in failure mode and effect analysis based on engineering textual data	5
Statistical process monitoring for vector autoregressive time series based on location-scale CUSUM method	5
Toward a concept of digital twin for monitoring assembly and disassembly processes	4
A Conversation with Douglas C. Montgomery	4
Enhanced problem solving through redefined 8D step completion criteria	4
Hybrid fault diagnostics and prognostics system development for motor bearings health monitoring	4
Tukey-EWMA control chart with variable sampling intervals for process monitoring	4
Modeling the output from a commercial chemical process using regression models from survival analysis	4
Early fault diagnosis based on reinforcement learning optimized-SVM model with vibration-monitored signals	4
Statistical engineering – Part 2: Future	3
Assessing the performance of control charts for detecting previously unexplored shift types in high density spatial data	3
Gauge R & R studies for angular measurements	3
I -optimal or G -optimal: Do we have to choose?	3
Functional data analysis and nonlinear regression models: an information quality perspective	3
Data quality and statistics: Perfect together?	3
On experimental designs for gauge R & R studies including some long forgotten ones	3
Real-time adjustment of injection molding process settings by utilizing Design of Experiment, time series profiles and PLS-DA	3
Design construction and model selection for small mixture-process variable experiments with high-dimensional model terms	3
A Conversation with Christine M. Anderson-Cook	3
A conversation with William Q. Meeker	3
Corporation-wide variation reduction	3
Reliability modeling for failure correlations to a CNC lathe subsystem based on Pagerank Algorithm	3
A simple test to determine the contributors of fraction nonconforming shifts in a multivariate binomial process	3
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	3
The case against generally weighted moving average (GWMA) control charts	3
Case study: Accounting for response measurement error in fitting a regression model	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
Quality process reengineering in industry 4.0: A BPR perspective	2
A control chart for monitoring images using jump location curves	2
Using a baseline with the probability of agreement to compare distribution characteristics	2
Statistical perspectives on reliability of artificial intelligence systems	2
Mutual combination of selected principles and technologies of Industry 4.0 and quality management methods - case study	2
Online monitoring of nonlinear profiles using a Gaussian process model with heteroscedasticity	2
Hidden dimensions of the data: PCA vs autoencoders	2
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

A process capability function approach to multiple response surface optimization based on a posterior procedure	2
A Bayesian nonparametric system reliability model which integrates multiple sources of lifetime information	2
A consistent data model for different data granularity in control charts	2
Robust control chart based on mixed-effects modeling framework: A case study in NAND flash memory industry	2
Three-level designs under second order models	2
Product quality prediction based on process data: Taking the gearbox of Company D as an example	2
Leveraging what you know: Versatile space-filling designs	2
Assurance of electronic parts for aerospace system reliability: Past, present, and future	2
Lean, data, and statistics	2
An improved multiple quality characteristic analysis chart for simultaneous monitoring of process mean and variance of steering knuckle pin for green manufacturing	2
Optimized control charts using indifference regions	2
Outlier detection and online monitoring of event sequences arising in customer service processes with unknown event-types	2
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	2
Remembering George EP Box in Quality Quandaries: great ideas, practical advice, clearly presented	2
Joint component-system maintenance planning over entire system task profile	2
A reliability approach for prediction and management of part obsolescence for improved system health	2
Contextual anomaly detection for multivariate time series data	2
The role of the normal distribution in statistical process monitoring	2
Reliability analysis for systems subject to dependent and competing failure processes with random failure thresholds	2
An online approach for robust parameter design with incremental Gaussian process	2
Foundations of network monitoring: Definitions and applications	1
Testing the prediction profiler with disallowed combinations—A statistical engineering case study	1
Accelerated failure time analysis for industrial life modeling in presence of unknown dependent and independent censoring	1
Reliability modeling for multi-component system subject to dependent competing failure processes with phase-type distribution considering multiple shock sources	1
Dynamic maintenance model for a repairable multi-component system using deep reinforcement learning	1
Response surfaces, blocking, and split plots: A predictive distribution case study	1
On the application of compound optimal design strategy in progressively type-II censored life-testing experiments	1
Precision of CSLT measurement system for defect detection in bored piles	1
The interdisciplinary nature of network monitoring: Advantages and disadvantages	1
Process Analytical Technology, continuous manufacturing, and the development of a surrogate model for dissolution: a pharmaceutical manufacturing statistical engineering case study	1
A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	1
On nominal data gauge R & R studies	1
Flexible, efficient borrowing: A power prior structure for Bayesian interim analysis	1
Improved yield estimation with efficient decision power for multi-line processes	1
Correction	1
Monitoring univariate processes using control charts: Some practical issues and advice	1
An integrated failure-censored sampling scheme for lifetime-performance verification and validation under a Weibull distribution	1
A review of leveraged sample selection in variation reduction projects	1
A note on compositional data gauge R&R studies	1
On gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies for counts	1
Tolerance interval for the exponential distribution with a specified ratio of the tail probabilities and generalizations	1
Multivariate Six Sigma: A case study in an outpatient pharmaceutical care unit	1
Quality 4.0: Learning quality control, the evolution of SQC/SPC	1
Reliability-based optimization of imperfect preventive maintenance with Bayesian estimation	1
Equivalences between multiple dependent state sampling, chain sampling, and control chart runs rules	1
On reading Youden: Learning about the practice of statistics and applied statistical research from a master applied statistician	1
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	1
Step-stress tests for interval-censored data under gamma lifetime distribution	1
Mining quality determinants of product-service systems from user-generated contents	1
A reliability prediction method considering degradation self-acceleration effect in DC-link electrolytic capacitor	1
Using statistical engineering in pharmaceutical and biotech problem solving a case study	1
Power guidelines for process monitoring	1
A high dimensional functional time series approach to evolution outlier detection for grouped smart meters	1