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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A mixture model application in monitoring error message rates for a distributed industrial fleet	65
Visualization and comparison of aircraft trajectories using Gaussian-Smoothed heatmaps	29
Statistical engineering – Part 1: Past and present	21
A fresh look at computer vision for industrial quality control	17
Bayesian analysis of accelerated life test under constrained randomization	15
A new approach to risk assessment in failure mode and effect analysis based on engineering textual data	14
Exploratory image data analysis for quality improvement hypothesis generation	14
Simultaneous classification and out-of-distribution detection for wafer bin maps	13
Critical success factors for implementing Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: A systematic literature review	13
Efficient ARL estimation for general control charts using censored run lengths	12
Alternative parameter learning schemes for monitoring process stability	12
Robust confidence intervals for the process capability index C _pk with bootstrap improvement	12
Statistical process monitoring for vector autoregressive time series based on location-scale CUSUM method	11
Using principles and selected tools of Lean Six Sigma to improve sustainability: A case study	11
Image based statistical process monitoring via partial first order stochastic dominance	10
Robust yield test for a normal production process	8
Digital twins in quality engineering	8
Sequential Bayesian assurance tests for degradation data	8
Introduction to special edition of Quality Engineering	8
Editorial for reliability engineering special issue	8
Particle swarm exchange algorithms with applications in generating optimal model-discrimination designs	8
A method for robust design of products or processes with categorical response	7
Evaluation of manufacturing process in low variety high volume industry with the coupling of cloud model theory and TOPSIS approach	7
Implementation of Quality 4.0, a systematic review of approaches, root causes, and challenges	7
Optimal design of a two-point variables skip-lot sampling plan with Taguchi capability index	7

Letter to the quality engineering editor	7
Understanding and addressing complexity in problem solving	7
An exponentially weighted moving average control chart based on signed ranks for finite horizon processes	6
Designing a variables two-plan sampling system with adjustable acceptance criteria for lot disposition	6
Automated, rapid, and convergent hyperparameter optimizer (ARCH) for neural network classifiers	6
A class of response surface split-plot designs	6
Enhanced problem solving through redefined 8D step completion criteria	6
CUSUM design for detection of event-rate increases for a Poisson process	6
Application of a proposed reliability analysis multivariate capability index on manufacturing processes	6
An adaptive exponentially weighted moving average control chart for poisson processes	6
Intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearings based on clustering algorithm of fast search and find of density peaks	5
Modeling the output from a commercial chemical process using regression models from survival analysis	5
Hybrid fault diagnostics and prognostics system development for motor bearings health monitoring	5
Tukey-EWMA control chart with variable sampling intervals for process monitoring	5
Toward a concept of digital twin for monitoring assembly and disassembly processes	5
Early fault diagnosis based on reinforcement learning optimized-SVM model with vibration-monitored signals	4
Empowering software reliability: Leveraging efficient fault detection and removal efficiency	4
Cautious parameter learning for a joint mean and variance monitoring CUSUM scheme with guaranteed in-control performance	4
A Conversation with Douglas C. Montgomery	4
Reliability analysis for continuous degrading systems subject to multi-level failure dependence	4
Estimation of the lot fraction defective in a finite lot of products with auxiliary quality characteristics	4
Correlation to causality	4
Prediction of high-performance computing input/output variability and its application to optimization for system configurations	3
Gauge R & R studies for angular measurements	3
The case against generally weighted moving average (GWMA) control charts	3
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	3
A conversation with William Q. Meeker	3
Assessing the performance of control charts for detecting previously unexplored shift types in high density spatial data	3
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	3
Design construction and model selection for small mixture-process variable experiments with high-dimensional model terms	3
I -optimal or G -optimal: Do we have to choose?	3
A Conversation with Christine M. Anderson-Cook	3
Robust control chart based on mixed-effects modeling framework: A case study in NAND flash memory industry	3
Contextual anomaly detection for multivariate time series data	3
An online approach for robust parameter design with incremental Gaussian process	3
An improved multiple quality characteristic analysis chart for simultaneous monitoring of process mean and variance of steering knuckle pin for green manufacturing	3
Joint component-system maintenance planning over entire system task profile	3
Case study: Accounting for response measurement error in fitting a regression model	3
Lifetime performance-qualified sampling system under a Weibull distribution with failure-censoring	3
Product quality prediction based on process data: Taking the gearbox of Company D as an example	3
Assurance of electronic parts for aerospace system reliability: Past, present, and future	2
A consistent data model for different data granularity in control charts	2
Mutual combination of selected principles and technologies of Industry 4.0 and quality management methods - case study	2
On experimental designs for gauge R & R studies including some long forgotten ones	2
A Bayesian nonparametric system reliability model which integrates multiple sources of lifetime information	2
A simple test to determine the contributors of fraction nonconforming shifts in a multivariate binomial process	2
A neural network-based control chart for monitoring and interpreting autocorrelated multivariate processes using layer-wise relevance propagation	2
Outlier detection and online monitoring of event sequences arising in customer service processes with unknown event-types	2
A new incapability index for simple linear profile with asymmetric tolerances	2
Multivariate Six Sigma: A case study in an outpatient pharmaceutical care unit	2

Lean, data, and statistics	2
Reliability analysis of heat exchanging system of deep-sea manned submersibles using Markov model	2
Statistical perspectives on reliability of artificial intelligence systems	2
Real-time adjustment of injection molding process settings by utilizing Design of Experiment, time series profiles and PLS-DA	2
A process capability function approach to multiple response surface optimization based on a posterior procedure	2
A comparative study for parameter estimation of the Weibull distribution in a small sample size: An application to spring fatigue failure data	2
Data quality and statistics: Perfect together?	2
Functional data analysis and nonlinear regression models: an information quality perspective	2
Three-level designs under second order models	2
Online monitoring of nonlinear profiles using a Gaussian process model with heteroscedasticity	2
A reliability approach for prediction and management of part obsolescence for improved system health	2
A control chart for monitoring images using jump location curves	2
Hidden dimensions of the data: PCA vs autoencoders	2
Statistical engineering – Part 2: Future	2
Using a baseline with the probability of agreement to compare distribution characteristics	2
Corporation-wide variation reduction	2
Reliability modeling for failure correlations to a CNC lathe subsystem based on Pagerank Algorithm	2
An integrated failure-censored sampling scheme for lifetime-performance verification and validation under a Weibull distribution	2
Quality process reengineering in industry 4.0: A BPR perspective	2
Optimized control charts using indifference regions	2
Leveraging what you know: Versatile space-filling designs	2
Foundations of network monitoring: Definitions and applications	1
Reliability modeling for multi-component system subject to dependent competing failure processes with phase-type distribution considering multiple shock sources	1
Precision of CSLT measurement system for defect detection in bored piles	1
The interdisciplinary nature of network monitoring: Advantages and disadvantages	1
Quality 4.0: Learning quality control, the evolution of SQC/SPC	1
Step-stress tests for interval-censored data under gamma lifetime distribution	1
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	1
Correction	1
A review of leveraged sample selection in variation reduction projects	1
Monitoring univariate processes using control charts: Some practical issues and advice	1
A note on compositional data gauge R&R studies	1
The role of the normal distribution in statistical process monitoring	1
Understanding interactions between mixture components and process variables	1
On gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies for counts	1
Using statistical engineering in pharmaceutical and biotech problem solving a case study	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
Tolerance interval for the exponential distribution with a specified ratio of the tail probabilities and generalizations	1
Mining quality determinants of product-service systems from user-generated contents	1
Reliability analysis for systems subject to dependent and competing failure processes with random failure thresholds	1
Equivalences between multiple dependent state sampling, chain sampling, and control chart runs rules	1
A high dimensional functional time series approach to evolution outlier detection for grouped smart meters	1
Reliability-based optimization of imperfect preventive maintenance with Bayesian estimation	1
Dynamic maintenance model for a repairable multi-component system using deep reinforcement learning	1
Process Analytical Technology, continuous manufacturing, and the development of a surrogate model for dissolution: a pharmaceutical manufacturing statistical engineering case study	1
A case study: Comparing testers for means and variances in a balanced incomplete block design	1
Power guidelines for process monitoring	1
A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	1
Testing the prediction profiler with disallowed combinations—A statistical engineering case study	1
Response surfaces, blocking, and split plots: A predictive distribution case study	1
Improved yield estimation with efficient decision power for multi-line processes	1
On reading Youden: Learning about the practice of statistics and applied statistical research from a master applied statistician	1
Remembering George EP Box in Quality Quandaries: great ideas, practical advice, clearly presented	1