The text with Jenkins on time series analysis and control is a classic and had a major impact on the application of time series methods in business and industry. The systematic approach that they advocated was quickly referred to as the Box-Jenkins methodology. Although time series forecasting applications were well accepted by industry, the portion of the text demonstrating application to feedback control systems was largely ignored.
The 1980s and 1990s saw a resurgence of application of statistical process control in manufacturing. Basic Statistical Process Control (SPC) deals with control charts that assume independent identically distributed observations when "the system is under control". This is the basic theme for the Shewhart control charts and the cumulative sum charts that are standard in basic SPC. Hahn and Tucker at General Electric (among others) recognized that the approach could be generalized to dependent stationary processes using the Box-Jenkins methodology. In this text Box and Luceno describe this methodology and the recent results in the context of monitoring for process control and the incorporation of feedback adjustments to the process when the process goes out of control. Basically, they have taken the ideas on feedback control systems from the Box and Jenkins book and found applications to the control of manufacturing processes.
This is very useful stuff and is certainly worth knowing about. However if the reader is looking for a good introduction to standard SPC methods this is not the book he/she wants.