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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 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
Concerns about designing C _pk sampling plans with an approximate cumulative	13
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	13
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	12
The statistical finite element method: A theoretical foundation for digital twins	12
Discussion of “Industrial process analytics: multiscale approaches for integrating process knowledge and data induction for improving industrial processes and products”	11
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
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	10
A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	10
Appropriate care in a hospital: A case study in a breast center	10
Befitting bootstrap analysis: A case study	9
Accelerated failure time analysis for industrial life modeling in presence of unknown dependent and independent censoring	9

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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Discussion of a nice paper with a long title	5
Simultaneous tolerance intervals for response surface designs	5
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
Utilizing jackknife and bootstrap to understand tensile stress to failure of an epoxy resin	4
Modified Imperfect Repair Model (ARAM ₁ ) and new PLP parameterization	4
Hidden dimensions of the data: PCA vs autoencoders	4
Process Analytical Technology, continuous manufacturing, and the development of a surrogate model for dissolution: a pharmaceutical manufacturing statistical engineering case study	4
A conversation with Ron Snee	4
Two-level D-optimal designs for run sizes that are one less than a multiple of four	4
Question, plan, data, Analysis, and Conclusion (QPDAC): A tutorial	4
A reliability approach for prediction and management of part obsolescence for improved system health	4
Using statistical engineering in pharmaceutical and biotech problem solving a case study	4
A hierarchical model-based method for wafer level virtual metrology under process information deficiency	4
Availability and cost models for sequentially inspected systems with dependent catastrophic and soft failures	4
Data-driven maintenance priority recommendations for civil aircraft engine fleets using reliability-based bivariate cluster analysis	4
Simultaneous monitoring of the mean vector and covariance matrix of multivariate multiple linear profiles with a new adaptive Shewhart-type control chart	4
Letter to the Editor	3

Response to the letter by Professors Woodall and Knoth	3
Improvement projects with an environmental focus: A novel approach for prioritization	3
DR-AIR: A data repository bridging the research gap in AI reliability	3
Monitoring count data without a Phase I study: A Poisson case on industrial printers	3
How generative AI models such as ChatGPT can be (mis)used in SPC practice, education, and research? An exploratory study	3
On efficient change point detection using a step cumulative sum control chart	3
Practical generation of run orders in factorial designs with low bias and reduced number of level changes	3
Deep reinforcement learning for maintenance optimization of multi-component production systems considering quality and production plan	3
Design of the EWMA charts for simultaneously monitoring mean and variance using the conditional false alarm rate	3
A life extrapolation model using accelerated equivalent luminance and its application	3
Correction	2
Reliability-based optimization of imperfect preventive maintenance with Bayesian estimation	2
Control charting with interval-valued data	2
A high dimensional functional time series approach to evolution outlier detection for grouped smart meters	2
A reliability prediction method considering degradation self-acceleration effect in DC-link electrolytic capacitor	2
Hybrid fault diagnostics and prognostics system development for motor bearings health monitoring	2
Modernizing full posterior inference for surrogate modeling of categorical-output simulation experiments	2
Discussion on “statistical solutions for interdisciplinary problem-solving”	2
Leveraging what you know: Versatile space-filling designs	2
MR-RF: A robust data mining method for multiresponse optimization using a random forest	2
A model for failure-time data with two dependent failure modes and prediction of future failures	2
A control chart for monitoring images using jump location curves	2
Contextual anomaly detection for multivariate time series data	2
Semiparametric approach for dual-response robust design with complex two-factor interactions	2
Sequential Bayesian assurance tests for degradation data	2
Efficient ARL estimation for general control charts using censored run lengths	2
Improving laser welding penetration depth process capability for automotive seat adjusters	2
Step-stress tests for interval-censored data under gamma lifetime distribution	2
Power guidelines for process monitoring	2
Real-time monitoring for Plateau lake expanding based on EWMA and UNet image segmentation	2
A conversation with William Q. Meeker	2
Automated, rapid, and convergent hyperparameter optimizer (ARCH) for neural network classifiers	2
Nonparametric control limits incorporating exceedance probability criterion for statistical process monitoring with commonly employed small to moderate sample sizes	2
Correction	1
Early fault diagnosis based on reinforcement learning optimized-SVM model with vibration-monitored signals	1
Precision of CSLT measurement system for defect detection in bored piles	1
Flexible, efficient borrowing: A power prior structure for Bayesian interim analysis	1
Optimal designing of skip-lot sampling plan with a provision for reducing the normal inspection using the Taguchi process capability index	1
Testing the prediction profiler with disallowed combinations—A statistical engineering case study	1
Statistical inference in Burr type XII lifetime model based on progressive randomly censored data	1
The future of statistics in an AI era*	1
On the construction of saturated split-plot designs for quadratic response surface models	1
A new incapability index for simple linear profile with asymmetric tolerances	1
Developing a cost-efficient dual sampling system for lot disposition by considering process yield and quality loss	1
A latent process approach to change-point detection of mixed-type observations	1
Mixed-type defect pattern recognition in noisy labeled wafer bin maps	1
Optimal design of time-between-event control charts with parameter estimation	1
Cautious parameter learning for a joint mean and variance monitoring CUSUM scheme with guaranteed in-control performance	1
A new multivariate control chart based on the isolation forest algorithm	1
Understanding interactions between mixture components and process variables	1
On nominal data gauge R & R studies	1
A mixture model application in monitoring error message rates for a distributed industrial fleet	1
Correction	1
Redefining software reliability modeling: embracing fault-dependency, imperfect removal, and maximum fault considerations	1
Discussion of “Industrial process analytics: Multiscale approaches for integrating process knowledge and data induction for improving industrial processes and products”	1
A hybrid machine learning approach for predicting short production stoppages	1
A comparative study for parameter estimation of the Weibull distribution in a small sample size: An application to spring fatigue failure data	1
A study of attribute control charts for censored lifetime data	1
Case study on applying sequential analyses in operational testing	1
A critical assessment of neutrosophic statistical methods	1
Data quality from a life-cycle point of view	1
Online monitoring of unstructured data in additive manufacturing via an improved manifold learning algorithm	1
COVID vaccine data quality, cleaning, and management	1
Shapley-based fault variable identification in MSPC	1
Statistical solutions for interdisciplinary problem-solving	1
Simultaneous classification and out-of-distribution detection for wafer bin maps	1
A critique of the group runs chart	1
Assessing counting systems using a gold standard or a true count	1
Mutual combination of selected principles and technologies of Industry 4.0 and quality management methods - case study	1
Developing variables two-plan sampling scheme with consideration of process loss for lot sentencing	1
Optimal split-plot order-of-addition designs	1
Optimal diagnosis interval for online quality control methods	1
A conversation with Ronald J.M.M. Does	1
Statistical engineering – Part 1: Past and present	1