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A Comparison Of Present And Future Tasks Performed By Quality Engineers Of Leading And Nonleading American Manufacturing Firms, Zenon Theodore Smolarek

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This study identified and compared the level of importance and frequency of performance of 34 selected quality engineering tasks in the present and five years hence and determined potential catalysts for any expected change between the present and the future. Two sample groups of practicing certified quality engineers working for manufacturing companies in the United States were surveyed in three rounds to obtain the data. Group I consisted of 86 engineers working for companies that had been identified as leaders in product quality in a 1985 Gallup study. Group II consisted of 96 engineers from other companies.

The study attempted …