Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 9 ON LINE CONTROL – Control Charts Control Charting Normal Variance #x2013; Reflections Curiosities and Recommendations Adaptive Charting Techniques: Literature Review and Extensions Multivariate Monitoring of the Process Mean and Variability Using Combinations of Shewhart and MEWMA Control Charts Quality Control of Manufactured Surfaces Statistical Process Control for Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes The Max CUSUM Chart Sequential Signals on a Control Chart Based on Nonparametric Statistical Tests On the Application of SPC in Finance ON LINE CONTROL – Surveillance Sampling and Sampling Plans Principles for Multivariate Surveillance Research Issues and Ideas on Health Related Surveillance Surveillance Sampling Schemes Selective Assembly for Maximizing Profit in the Presence and Absence of Measurement Error A New Approach to Bayesian Sampling Plans OFF LINE CONTROL Stochastic Modelling as a Tool for Quality Assessment and Quality Improvement Illustrated by Means of Nuclear Fuel Assemblies Hierarchical Modeling for Monitoring Defects Conformance Analysis of Population Means under Restricted Stratified Sampling Data Quality Control Based on Metric Data Models The Sensitivity of Common Capability Indices to Departures from Normality A Note on the Estimation of Restricted Scale Parameters of Gamma Distributions Attractive Quality and Must be Quality from the Viewpoint of Environmental Lifestyle in Japan On Identifying Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Fractional Factorial Experiments Evaluating Adaptive Paired Comparison Experiments Approximated Interval Estimation in the Staggered Nested Designs for Precision Experiments. The twenty three papers in this volume are carefully selected reviewed and revised for this volume and are divided into two parts: Part 1: On line Control with subchapters 1.1 Control Charts and 1.2 Surveillance Sampling and Sampling Plans and Part 2: Off line Control .