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Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming (2020)

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Re: Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming (2020)

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Post by neverartful »

My first job out of college (undergraduate) was working for a small consulting firm that did a lot of work in this area for the petrochemical industry and their suppliers. The owner had a PhD in decision sciences (statistics) and he did consulting work on statistical process control (SPC). This was my first exposure to this field and was so fascinated by it that after working there for a year, I quit my job so that I could go back to school full time and pursue a Masters degree in this area, but with focus on management information systems (MIS). Ironically, my work after graduate school has never touched on SPC or quality control.

It's unfortunate that Deming (and many others) never really got the attention that their methods deserved.

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Post by cafard »

neverartful wrote: post #2

My first job out of college (undergraduate) was working for a small consulting firm that did a lot of work in this area for the petrochemical industry and their suppliers. The owner had a PhD in decision sciences (statistics) and he did consulting work on statistical process control (SPC). This was my first exposure to this field and was so fascinated by it that after working there for a year, I quit my job so that I…

Twenty-five or thirty years ago, one hear a great deal about total quality management (TQM).

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Post by Guthur »

neverartful wrote: post #2

My first job out of college (undergraduate) was working for a small consulting firm that did a lot of work in this area for the petrochemical industry and their suppliers. The owner had a PhD in decision sciences (statistics) and he did consulting work on statistical process control (SPC). This was my first exposure to this field and was so fascinated by it that after working there for a year, I quit my job so that I…

I'm hoping that will change. I'm a big fan of Deming and Drucker, they've both got really insightful thoughts on business.

My goal is to work more of Deming into knowledge work (software) to develop meaningful improvement into the process and product while leveraging Drucker for better effectiveness of the individual.

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Post by larrydag »

neverartful wrote: post #2

My first job out of college (undergraduate) was working for a small consulting firm that did a lot of work in this area for the petrochemical industry and their suppliers. The owner had a PhD in decision sciences (statistics) and he did consulting work on statistical process control (SPC). This was my first exposure to this field and was so fascinated by it that after working there for a year, I quit my job so that I…

GE and other companies tried to implement Demings approach. They called it Six Sigma. Those that used Deming's concepts were successful. Yet too many misunderstood the idea of SPC and used in areas that was not meant for quality control. For instance trying to use SPC in the managerial process itself.

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Post by jihadjihad »

W. Edwards Deming is the source of one of my favorite quotes: "In God we trust; all others must bring data."

One of the fascinating things about Deming's work is that Japan's automobiles went from being referred to pejoratively as "Jap Crap" to symbols of quality (Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Nissan, Mazda, etc.) within a short few decades--quite a feat for a nation struggling to regain its industrial footing after WWII.

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Post by Tomte »

jihadjihad wrote: post #7

W. Edwards Deming is the source of one of my favorite quotes: "In God we trust; all others must bring data." One of the fascinating things about Deming's work is that Japan's automobiles went from being referred to pejoratively as "Jap Crap" to symbols of quality (Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Nissan, Mazda, etc.) within a short few decades--quite a feat for a nation struggling to regain its industrial footing after WWII.

Deming used the quote, but did not coin it: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/12/29/god-data/
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