W. Edwards Deming
1900 – 1993 · United States · Business, Statistics
Statistical quality control rebuilt Japanese manufacturing and then global industry.
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- Peter Drucker
1909 – 2005 · Business
Quality as a management system, not an inspection step, runs through Drucker's practice.
- Taiichi Ohno
1912 – 1990 · Business, Engineering
Statistical quality control taught in postwar Japan is embedded in jidoka and kaizen.
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