w edwards deming invented quality in autos,
but the big 3 american co’s wouldn’t pay attention.
the japanese hired deming and paid him for his expertise.
the following link shows toyota’s appreciation to deming:
http://www.managementwisdom.com/
I generally agree that foreign cars are better but I’ve owned two Fords over the last sixteen years and their performance has been very satisfying. I got ten years out of my Explorer and then downsized to an Escape which I’ve driven for the last six. It’s truly odd that virtually all my union loving liberal friends drive cars that aren’t built by the UAW.
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the japanese hired deming and paid him for his expertise.
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I remember in a statistics class that when the Japanese had their
eyes opened by Deming and the concept of statitical sampling...
they freaked out when a review of WWII data showed they’d built,
hauled into the air, and dropped a crap-load of dud bombs.
And that proper sampling would have alerted them to this major problem.