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Papers

(The TQCC of Quality Engineering is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling the output from a commercial chemical process using regression models from survival analysis	135
Letter to the quality engineering editor	37
Evaluation of manufacturing process in low variety high volume industry with the coupling of cloud model theory and TOPSIS approach	26
Critical success factors for implementing Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: A systematic literature review	25
Enhancing Six Sigma with latent variable models: An industrial application of multivariate Six Sigma in the automotive sector	23
Exploratory image data analysis for quality improvement hypothesis generation	23
Acceptance sampling with multiple inspectors: Critical aspects in aggregating individual assessments	20
Alternative parameter learning schemes for monitoring process stability	17
Statistical process monitoring for vector autoregressive time series based on location-scale CUSUM method	17
Tukey-EWMA control chart with variable sampling intervals for process monitoring	16
Corporation-wide variation reduction	15
Optimal plans for accelerated destructive degradation tests with stress interaction effects	14
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	13
Concerns about designing C _pk sampling plans with an approximate cumulative	13
The statistical finite element method: A theoretical foundation for digital twins	12
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	12
Lean, data, and statistics	11
A note on compositional data gauge R&R studies	11
Simultaneous detection of shifts in the marginal and dependence terms for multivariate quality control	11
Discussion of “Industrial process analytics: multiscale approaches for integrating process knowledge and data induction for improving industrial processes and products”	11
A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	10
Appropriate care in a hospital: A case study in a breast center	10
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	10
Reliability analysis for systems subject to dependent and competing failure processes with random failure thresholds	9
Shared frailty models for multiple repairable systems under imperfect repair	9

Application of Bayesian control charts with dynamic adjustment for risk monitoring	9
Befitting bootstrap analysis: A case study	9
Accelerated failure time analysis for industrial life modeling in presence of unknown dependent and independent censoring	9
Approximate dynamic programming methods in Bayesian preference elicitation	8
System reliability optimization with two-sided power distributed component failure times	8
Subtracting, hedging, and design of experiments	8
Semi-supervised learning for predictive modeling in industrial applications	8
Sequential learning in practice: A case study in drug product development	8
Optimal test design for reliability demonstration under multi-stage acceptance uncertainties	8
Remaining useful life prediction using the similarity-based integrations of multi-sensors data	7
A CUSUM control chart for the Gamma distribution with cautious parameter learning	7
The decay of Six Sigma and the rise of Quality 4.0 in manufacturing innovation	7
Control chart pattern recognition for small samples based on Siamese Neural Network	7
Generating exact optimal designs via particle swarm optimization: Assessing efficacy and efficiency via case study	7
The North America competitive product laundry initiative – a case study on thorough understanding and quantitation of laundry product performance through Statistical Engineering	7
A statistical engineering approach to problem-solving	7
Evidential FMEA method for human reliability assessment	7
A statistical approach to quality evaluation of AI mislabel detection algorithm	6
Cause-and-effect diagram-based supersaturated designs	6
Introduction to special edition of Quality Engineering	6
A Conversation with Christine M. Anderson-Cook	6
Self-organized criticality in manufacturing system unscheduled downtime series and its application to major failure prediction	6
Design of Multiple Deferred State Repetitive Group Sampling Plans for Life Tests based on Generalized Gamma Distribution	6
First to signal criterion for comparing control chart performance	6
Some useful tactics for statisticians solving complex problems	6
An online approach for robust parameter design with incremental Gaussian process	6
Statistical engineering: Synergies with established engineering disciplines	6
Active learning for industrial applications	6
A practical insight into multivariate process capability indices	6
A Bayesian nonparametric system reliability model which integrates multiple sources of lifetime information	6
A systematic assessment of Large Language Models for constructing two-level fractional factorial designs	5
Quality 4.0: Learning quality control, the evolution of SQC/SPC	5
Rejoinder	5
Statistical engineering – Part 2: Future	5
Discussion of a nice paper with a long title	5
Simultaneous tolerance intervals for response surface designs	5