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Papers

(The TQCC of Quality Engineering is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling the output from a commercial chemical process using regression models from survival analysis	114
Letter to the quality engineering editor	34
Exploratory image data analysis for quality improvement hypothesis generation	26
Alternative parameter learning schemes for monitoring process stability	22
Acceptance sampling with multiple inspectors: Critical aspects in aggregating individual assessments	21
Evaluation of manufacturing process in low variety high volume industry with the coupling of cloud model theory and TOPSIS approach	19
Statistical process monitoring for vector autoregressive time series based on location-scale CUSUM method	18
Tukey-EWMA control chart with variable sampling intervals for process monitoring	18
Critical success factors for implementing Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: A systematic literature review	18
Corporation-wide variation reduction	16
Concerns about designing C _pk sampling plans with an approximate cumulative distribution function	15
Data quality and statistics: Perfect together?	15
Using a baseline with the probability of agreement to compare distribution characteristics	14
Multi-branch convolutional attention network for multi-sensor feature fusion in intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery	12
Lean, data, and statistics	11
Appropriate care in a hospital: A case study in a breast center	11
Reliability modeling for multi-component system subject to dependent competing failure processes with phase-type distribution considering multiple shock sources	11
Effects of measurement errors on semicircle control chart	11
Sequential learning in practice: A case study in drug product development	11
Grey Duane model for reliability growth prediction under small sample uncertain failure data	10
Befitting bootstrap analysis: A case study	10
Shared frailty models for multiple repairable systems under imperfect repair	10
A primer on predictive maintenance: Potential benefits and practical challenges	10
A note on compositional data gauge R&R studies	10
Accelerated failure time analysis for industrial life modeling in presence of unknown dependent and independent censoring	10

Reliability analysis for systems subject to dependent and competing failure processes with random failure thresholds	9
Semi-supervised learning for predictive modeling in industrial applications	9
An integrated failure-censored sampling scheme for lifetime-performance verification and validation under a Weibull distribution	9
Approximate dynamic programming methods in Bayesian preference elicitation	9
The decay of Six Sigma and the rise of Quality 4.0 in manufacturing innovation	8
System reliability optimization with two-sided power distributed component failure times	7
Optimal test design for reliability demonstration under multi-stage acceptance uncertainties	7
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
Evidential FMEA method for human reliability assessment	7
Design of Multiple Deferred State Repetitive Group Sampling Plans for Life Tests based on Generalized Gamma Distribution	6
Self-organized criticality in manufacturing system unscheduled downtime series and its application to major failure prediction	6
Control chart pattern recognition for small samples based on Siamese Neural Network	6
Statistical engineering: Synergies with established engineering disciplines	6
The North America competitive product laundry initiative – a case study on thorough understanding and quantitation of laundry product performance through Statistical Engineering	6
On reliability analysis of one-shot devices with manufacturing defects	6
Cause-and-effect diagram-based supersaturated designs	6
Deep learning-based residual control chart for count data	6
Active learning for industrial applications	5
Introduction to special edition of Quality Engineering	5
A Conversation with Christine M. Anderson-Cook	5
A statistical approach to quality evaluation of AI mislabel detection algorithm	5
CUSUM design for detection of event-rate increases for a Poisson process	5
Statistical engineering – Part 2: Future	5
A neural network-based control chart for monitoring and interpreting autocorrelated multivariate processes using layer-wise relevance propagation	5
First to signal criterion for comparing control chart performance	5
Product quality prediction based on process data: Taking the gearbox of Company D as an example	5
Discussion of a nice paper with a long title	5
A Bayesian nonparametric system reliability model which integrates multiple sources of lifetime information	5
Equivalences between multiple dependent state sampling, chain sampling, and control chart runs rules	4
Using statistical engineering in pharmaceutical and biotech problem solving a case study	4
Process Analytical Technology, continuous manufacturing, and the development of a surrogate model for dissolution: a pharmaceutical manufacturing statistical engineering case study	4
Hidden dimensions of the data: PCA vs autoencoders	4
Rejoinder	4
Online monitoring of nonlinear profiles using a Gaussian process model with heteroscedasticity	4
Simultaneous tolerance intervals for response surface designs	4
Tolerance interval for the exponential distribution with a specified ratio of the tail probabilities and generalizations	4
Modified Imperfect Repair Model (ARAM ₁ ) and new PLP parameterization	4
The case against generally weighted moving average (GWMA) control charts	4
A reliability approach for prediction and management of part obsolescence for improved system health	4
Quality 4.0: Learning quality control, the evolution of SQC/SPC	4
Simultaneous monitoring of the mean vector and covariance matrix of multivariate multiple linear profiles with a new adaptive Shewhart-type control chart	4
A conversation with Ron Snee	4
An online approach for robust parameter design with incremental Gaussian process	4