Hans-J. Lenz received his doctorate (Dr. rer. pol. in Statistics and Operations Research) at the Freie Universitat Berlin in 1973. He completed his venia legendi (post-doctoral degree) in Statistics and Operations Research at the same university in 1976. From 1978-2008 he was Professor of Applied Computer Science and Statistics at the Freie Universitat Berlin. In 1978 he refused a professorship of Statistics at the University of Bonn. During his sabbaticals in 1993 and 1996-97 he was a visiting professor at Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, Dept. of Computer Science Research and Development, Berkeley, USA. He has published or co-edited more than twenty books and some 350 technical papers. In 2005 the Romanian Statistical Society appointed him an honorary member, and in 2008 he received the golden medal of the Freie Universitat Berlin for his long years of service. Wolfgang Schmid studied Mathematics at the University of Ulm, Germany. He received his diploma in 1982 and doctorate in 1984 with a thesis on "Localization of outliers in autoregressive processes." In 1991 he completed his post-doctoral studies with a paper on "Outlier Tests and Outlier Identification in Time Series" and the venia legendi for Mathematics. After stays in Ulm, Trier and Stuttgart he became a full professor of Statistics at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1995. Wolfgang Schmid is the author of over 100 research papers in statistics. His main research areas are statistical process control, statistics in finance and environmetrics. He is currently associate editor of Sequential Analysis and of AStA-Advances in Statistical Analysis. Since 2008 he has been a board member of the German Statistical Society. Born in 1937, Peter-Theodor Wilrich studied Electrical Engineering in Hamburg and Aachen and received his Engineering diploma in 1961. He earned a further diploma in Industrial Engineering in 1984 and his doctorate with a dissertation in the field of queuing theory in 1987. From 1972 until 1976 he was associate professor at the Technical University of Aachen's Institute of Statistics. He later became full professor of statistics at the Freie Universitat Berlin's Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, where he worked until his retirement in 2002. His fields of interest include statistical quality control, industrial applications of statistical methods, and experimental design, especially problems of accuracy of measurement and inter-laboratory tests. He is a member of the International Statistical Institute, an honorary member of the German Statistical Society and a fellow of the American Society for Quality.

From the book reviews: "This edited volume contains affluence information, a one-stop shop. ... All the chapters are self-contained, in a sense. The volume showcases many useful topics and procedures for practitioners and researchers alike in the arena of statistical quality control. The book can also be served as a reference book. The papers in the volume are presented in an intuitive and appealing manner, giving the volume an accessible and wider readership." (S. E. Ahmed, Technometrics, Vol. 55 (3), August, 2013)

• Part I On-line Control:.- A GLR Control Chart for Monitoring the Process Variance by Marion R. Reynolds, Jr., and Jianying Lou.- On the Robustness of the Shewhart Control Chart to Diffrent Types of Dependencies in Data by Olgierd.- Assessing the Impact of Autocorrelation in Misleading Signals in Simultaneous Residual Schemes for the Process Mean and Variance: a Stochastic Ordering Approach by Patricia Ferreira Ramos, Manuel Cabral Morais, Antonio Pacheco and Wolfgang Schmid.- More on Control Charting under Drift by Sven Knoth.- Limit Properties of EWMA Charts for Stationary Processes by Manuel Cabral Morais, Yarema Okhrin, and Wolfgang Schmid.- Economic Control Chart Policies for Monitoring Variables when there are Two Components of Variance by Erwin Saniga, James Lucas, Darwin Davis, and Thomas McWilliams.- Process Monitoring Using an Online Nonlinear Data Reduction Based Control Chart by Issam Ben Khediri and Claus Weihs.- On the Integration of SPC and APC: APC can be a Convenient Support for SPC by Ken Nishina, Masanobu Higashide, Hironobu Kawamura, and Naru Ishii.- Process Adjustment Control Chart for Simultaneous Monitoring of Process Capability and State of Statistical Control by Hironobu Kawamura, Ken Nishina and Tomomichi Suzuki.- Adaptive Threshold Methods for Monitoring Rates in Public Health Surveillance by Linmin Gan, William H. Woodall, and John L. Szarka.- Spatiotemporal Bio Surveillance Under Non-homogeneous Population by Sung Won Han, Wei Jiang, and Kwok-Leung Tsui.- Monitoring Hospital-Associated Infections with Control Charts by Christina M. Mastrangelo and Anna M. Gillan.- Design and Implementation of Systems for Monitoring Lifetime Data  by Emmanuel Yashchin.- A Robust Detection Procedure for Multiple Change Points of Linear Trends by Seiichi Yasui, Hidehisa Noguchi and Yoshikazu Ojima.- Risk-adjusted Cumulative Sum Charting Procedures by Fah F. Gan, Lin Lin, and Chok K. Loke.- Bayesian Sampling Plans for Inspection by Variablesby Peter-Th. Wilrich.- Quality Assessment in the Presence of Additional Data in Photovoltaics by Sabine Meisen, Andrey Pepelyshev and Ansgar Steland.- On Practical Uses of ISO Standards - Two Case Studies by Jürgen Iwersen.- Part II Off-line Control: Hybrid Space-Filling Designs for Computer Experiments by Rachel T. Johnson, Douglas C. Montgomery and Kathryn S. Kennedy.- Optimal Design for Multifactor Life Testing Experiments for Exponentially Distributed Lifetimes by Brandon R. Englert, Steven E. Rigdon, Connie M. Borror, Douglas C. Montgomery and Rong Pan.- Accelerated Lifetime Testing of Thermal Insulation Elements by Rainer Göb, Kristina Lurz, and Ulrich Heinemann.- Proposal of Advanced Taguchi's Linear Graphs for Split-Plot Experiments by Tomomichi Suzuki, Hironobu Kawamura, Seiichi Yasui and Yoshikazu Ojima.- A Practical Variable Selection for Linear Models by Hidehisa Noguchi, Yoshikazu Ojima, and Seiichi Yasui.- Capability of Detection for Poisson Distributed Measurements by Normal Approximations by Yusuke Tsutsumi, Hironobu Kawamura, and Tomomichi Suzuki.- Business Data Quality Control - a Step by Step Procedure by Hans-J. Lenz and Esther Borowski.- Data Quality: Algorithms for Automatic Detection of Unusual Measurements by Ross Sparks and Chris OkuGami.- Uncertainty and Quality Control by Elart von Collani.