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Papers

(The TQCC of Quality Engineering is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling the output from a commercial chemical process using regression models from survival analysis	89
Alternative parameter learning schemes for monitoring process stability	36
Exploratory image data analysis for quality improvement hypothesis generation	24
Statistical process monitoring for vector autoregressive time series based on location-scale CUSUM method	21
A method for robust design of products or processes with categorical response	18
Letter to the quality engineering editor	18
Critical success factors for implementing Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: A systematic literature review	17
Tukey-EWMA control chart with variable sampling intervals for process monitoring	16
Acceptance sampling with multiple inspectors: Critical aspects in aggregating individual assessments	15
Evaluation of manufacturing process in low variety high volume industry with the coupling of cloud model theory and TOPSIS approach	14
Corporation-wide variation reduction	13
Data quality and statistics: Perfect together?	12
An improved multiple quality characteristic analysis chart for simultaneous monitoring of process mean and variance of steering knuckle pin for green manufacturing	12
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	12
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	11
Using a baseline with the probability of agreement to compare distribution characteristics	11
An integrated failure-censored sampling scheme for lifetime-performance verification and validation under a Weibull distribution	10
Foundations of network monitoring: Definitions and applications	10
A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	10
Three-level designs under second order models	10
Reliability analysis of heat exchanging system of deep-sea manned submersibles using Markov model	9
Reliability analysis for systems subject to dependent and competing failure processes with random failure thresholds	8
Lean, data, and statistics	8
Optimal test design for reliability demonstration under multi-stage acceptance uncertainties	7
The interdisciplinary nature of network monitoring: Advantages and disadvantages	7

Reliability modeling for multi-component system subject to dependent competing failure processes with phase-type distribution considering multiple shock sources	7
Approximate dynamic programming methods in Bayesian preference elicitation	7
A note on compositional data gauge R&R studies	7
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	7
On gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies for counts	7
Accelerated failure time analysis for industrial life modeling in presence of unknown dependent and independent censoring	7
Semi-supervised learning for predictive modeling in industrial applications	7
The decay of Six Sigma and the rise of Quality 4.0 in manufacturing innovation	6
A CUSUM control chart for the Gamma distribution with cautious parameter learning	6
Cause-and-effect diagram-based supersaturated designs	6
Evidential FMEA method for human reliability assessment	6
System reliability optimization with two-sided power distributed component failure times	6
Generating exact optimal designs via particle swarm optimization: Assessing efficacy and efficiency via case study	6
Deep learning-based residual control chart for count data	6
On reliability analysis of one-shot devices with manufacturing defects	6
Control chart pattern recognition for small samples based on Siamese Neural Network	6
Remaining useful life prediction using the similarity-based integrations of multi-sensors data	6
Statistical engineering: Synergies with established engineering disciplines	5
Self-organized criticality in manufacturing system unscheduled downtime series and its application to major failure prediction	5
First to signal criterion for comparing control chart performance	5
Active learning for industrial applications	5
The North America competitive product laundry initiative – a case study on thorough understanding and quantitation of laundry product performance through Statistical Engineering	5
Design of Multiple Deferred State Repetitive Group Sampling Plans for Life Tests based on Generalized Gamma Distribution	5
The prediction profiler at 30	5
Introduction to special edition of Quality Engineering	4
Statistical engineering – Part 2: Future	4
An online approach for robust parameter design with incremental Gaussian process	4
CUSUM design for detection of event-rate increases for a Poisson process	4
A Conversation with Christine M. Anderson-Cook	4
The case against generally weighted moving average (GWMA) control charts	4
A neural network-based control chart for monitoring and interpreting autocorrelated multivariate processes using layer-wise relevance propagation	4
A Bayesian nonparametric system reliability model which integrates multiple sources of lifetime information	4
Product quality prediction based on process data: Taking the gearbox of Company D as an example	4
Process Analytical Technology, continuous manufacturing, and the development of a surrogate model for dissolution: a pharmaceutical manufacturing statistical engineering case study	3
Online monitoring of nonlinear profiles using a Gaussian process model with heteroscedasticity	3
Using statistical engineering in pharmaceutical and biotech problem solving a case study	3
Hidden dimensions of the data: PCA vs autoencoders	3
Availability and cost models for sequentially inspected systems with dependent catastrophic and soft failures	3
Deep reinforcement learning for maintenance optimization of multi-component production systems considering quality and production plan	3
A reliability approach for prediction and management of part obsolescence for improved system health	3
Equivalences between multiple dependent state sampling, chain sampling, and control chart runs rules	3
Data-driven maintenance priority recommendations for civil aircraft engine fleets using reliability-based bivariate cluster analysis	3
Broader impacts of network monitoring: Its role in government, industry, technology, and beyond	3
Two-level D-optimal designs for run sizes that are one less than a multiple of four	3
Letter to the Editor	3
Quality 4.0: Learning quality control, the evolution of SQC/SPC	3
Tolerance interval for the exponential distribution with a specified ratio of the tail probabilities and generalizations	3
Simultaneous monitoring of the mean vector and covariance matrix of multivariate multiple linear profiles with a new adaptive Shewhart-type control chart	3
Modified Imperfect Repair Model (ARAM ₁ ) and new PLP parameterization	3
A hierarchical model-based method for wafer level virtual metrology under process information deficiency	3

A novel application of a definitive screening design: A case study