Journal of Quality Technology: Special Issue on “Quality Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing”

Journal of Quality Technology

Special Issue on “Quality Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing”

Emergence of advanced manufacturing technologies along with significant progress in computing and communication has fundamentally transformed manufacturing to a smart operation scheme that facilitates better management and control of quality and productivity under a broadly connected and accessible environment.  Future manufacturing has increasingly been characterized as complex, networked cyber-physical systems.

At the product level, complex shapes can be now efficiently manufactured and product customization allows for short-run or even one-of-a-kind manufacturing.

At the process level, smart sensing allows for high-frequency, multi-stream data collection, mixing signal data to (usually contactless) in-line inspection. At the design level, large-scale computer experiments can be used to simulate performances of complex products and processes.

With this dramatic transformation of manufacturing environment, Quality Engineering, which has a strong connection with traditional mass production scheme, faces fundamental challenges. On the other hand, the “data-rich”, dynamic, smart manufacturing environment also offers tremendous opportunities to develop new-generation methodologies and techniques to manage and improve quality.

In an attempt to disseminate cutting-edge developments in quality engineering resulting from the paradigm shift in manufacturing, the Journal of Quality Technology seeks submissions for a special issue on “Quality engineering/techniques for advanced manufacturing” on the following topics:

• ·       Smart sensing scheme for efficient data collection
• ·       Non-contact data modeling, monitoring and control
• ·       Pervasive monitoring and control
• ·       Data analytics for information capture, representation, extraction, and utilization
• ·       High fidelity real-time and predictive modeling and simulation of advanced manufacturing processes (e.g., computer experiments design, modeling, calibration and optimization)
• ·       Robust mathematical models to simulate advanced manufacturing processes and enable complex control algorithms.
• ·       Design of experiments and statistical quality monitoring for low volume and large product varieties
• ·       Uncertainty quantification of manufacturing processes using computer experiments
• ·       Designing efficient experiments to augment information from high-resolution and low-resolution models
• ·       Complex shapes modeling, monitoring, inspection and optimization
• ·       Data fusion for quality engineering

Paper Submission

All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal of Quality Technology standards and guidelines, and will be reviewed following the regular review process of the journal. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work has not been published before, and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Authors are required to prepare a cover letter indicating the submission is for the special issue and to submit the paper in PDF or MS Word via email to: Valerie Funk, Manuscript Coordinator, ASQ (Email: manuscripts@asq.org).

Editorial Team:

·         Bianca Colosimo (Co-guest Editor), Politecnico di Milano, Email: biancamaria.colosimo@polimi.it

·       Tirthankar Dasgupta (Co-guest Editor), Harvard University, Email: dasgupta@stat.harvard.edu

·       Qiang Huang (Co-guest Editor), USC, Email: qiang.huang@usc.edu

·       Fugee Tsung (Editor-in-Chief), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Email: season@ust.hk

Important Dates:

·          Aug 31, 2016: Paper submission deadline

·       July 31, 2017: Final decision on paper acceptance

·       Late 2017 or Early 2018: Publication of the special issue