Actually, an American named W. Edwards Deming built the Japanese up after WWII. Deming had a manufacturing philosophy of statistical monitoring and incremental improvements that the big American companies shunned, but the Japanese embraced wholeheartedly. Looks like he was right.
“W. Edwards Deming built the Japanese up after WWII. Deming had a manufacturing philosophy of statistical monitoring and incremental improvements that the big American companies shunned, but the Japanese embraced wholeheartedly. Looks like he was right.”
Deming brings back good memories for me. I studied Deming back in school/grad school [the “stat” comes from a nick-name because I studied applied math, including statistics]. He took scientific principles and made them easy to apply in a corporate environment. Much of statistical process control was developed by AT&T scientists. AT&T would even publish advanced math textbooks, which are still useful today. That company used to be an amazing collection scientific minds back in the 40s and 50s.
Intelligent companies measure and experiment as part of due course. As one professor once said, “If you are not measuring it, you have not accomplished anything.” (or something like that, he got the quote from someone else)
*Actually, an American named W. Edwards Deming built the Japanese up after WWII.*
No, dude, he asked about World War 11 [Eleven].
he built up japanese manufacturing because he was shunned by american manufacturers.
he always spoke for free to foreign companies.
he charged 10k per head to us companies.
this is what i was told.