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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling the output from a commercial chemical process using regression models from survival analysis	117
Letter to the quality engineering editor	36
Exploratory image data analysis for quality improvement hypothesis generation	27
Alternative parameter learning schemes for monitoring process stability	22
Statistical process monitoring for vector autoregressive time series based on location-scale CUSUM method	22
Acceptance sampling with multiple inspectors: Critical aspects in aggregating individual assessments	20
Critical success factors for implementing Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: A systematic literature review	20
Tukey-EWMA control chart with variable sampling intervals for process monitoring	18
Evaluation of manufacturing process in low variety high volume industry with the coupling of cloud model theory and TOPSIS approach	17
Corporation-wide variation reduction	16
Data quality and statistics: Perfect together?	15
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	15
Concerns about designing C _pk sampling plans with an approximate cumulative distribution function	14
Simultaneous detection of shifts in the marginal and dependence terms for multivariate quality control	12
Using a baseline with the probability of agreement to compare distribution characteristics	12
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	12
Reliability modeling for multi-component system subject to dependent competing failure processes with phase-type distribution considering multiple shock sources	11
Sequential learning in practice: A case study in drug product development	11
Appropriate care in a hospital: A case study in a breast center	11
Shared frailty models for multiple repairable systems under imperfect repair	11
Lean, data, and statistics	11
Befitting bootstrap analysis: A case study	10
A note on compositional data gauge R&R studies	10
Reliability analysis for systems subject to dependent and competing failure processes with random failure thresholds	10
Accelerated failure time analysis for industrial life modeling in presence of unknown dependent and independent censoring	10

A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	9
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	9
Approximate dynamic programming methods in Bayesian preference elicitation	9
Optimal test design for reliability demonstration under multi-stage acceptance uncertainties	8
Semi-supervised learning for predictive modeling in industrial applications	8
System reliability optimization with two-sided power distributed component failure times	8
A CUSUM control chart for the Gamma distribution with cautious parameter learning	7
Generating exact optimal designs via particle swarm optimization: Assessing efficacy and efficiency via case study	7
Remaining useful life prediction using the similarity-based integrations of multi-sensors data	7
Control chart pattern recognition for small samples based on Siamese Neural Network	7
The decay of Six Sigma and the rise of Quality 4.0 in manufacturing innovation	7
Evidential FMEA method for human reliability assessment	7
On reliability analysis of one-shot devices with manufacturing defects	6
Cause-and-effect diagram-based supersaturated designs	6
First to signal criterion for comparing control chart performance	6
A statistical approach to quality evaluation of AI mislabel detection algorithm	6
The North America competitive product laundry initiative – a case study on thorough understanding and quantitation of laundry product performance through Statistical Engineering	6
Statistical engineering: Synergies with established engineering disciplines	6
Active learning for industrial applications	6
Deep learning-based residual control chart for count data	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
Introduction to special edition of Quality Engineering	6
Statistical engineering – Part 2: Future	5
Product quality prediction based on process data: Taking the gearbox of Company D as an example	5
Hidden dimensions of the data: PCA vs autoencoders	5
Discussion of a nice paper with a long title	5
An online approach for robust parameter design with incremental Gaussian process	5
Rejoinder	5
A Bayesian nonparametric system reliability model which integrates multiple sources of lifetime information	5
A Conversation with Christine M. Anderson-Cook	5
A neural network-based control chart for monitoring and interpreting autocorrelated multivariate processes using layer-wise relevance propagation	5