Maurizio Galetto is Full Professor at the Department of Management and Production Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches "Quality Engineering" and "Experimental Statistics and Mechanical Measurement". He has a Master of Science Degree in Physics and a Doctorate in Metrology. He is member of A.I.Te.M. (Associazione Italiana di Tecnologia Meccanica) and E.N.B.I.S. (European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics). He is Associate Editor of the scientific international journal Precision Engineering and collaborates as referee for many international journals in the field of Industrial Engineering. He is author and coauthor of 4 books and more than 100 published papers in scientific journals, and international conference proceedings. His current research interests are in the areas of Production Systems, Quality Engineering, Statistical Process Control, and Industrial Metrology. At present, he collaborates in some important research projects for public and private organizations.