2011 Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 76-88
Papers on quality engineering were examined by tracing a history of the comments appended to and prizes awarded to papers that appeared in the Journal of Quality Engineering Society from the first issue through volume 16 No.6. This study produced a picture of the history of the development of quality engineering and also showed that our current task is to reexamine the idea of generic functions. That is, besides producing observations on the ways in which papers on quality engineering were evaluated and tracing the history of quality engineering research, this study led to a consideration of future directions for quality engineering research. Specifically, it became clear that generic functions must arise from consideration of how a system actually works. The possibility of finding new ways of comprehending technology through use of submitted papers will be explored as a future research topic.
