Specifications and Inspection; some history

At the end of the 18th century, an inventor worked on two projects that would have a profound affect on the tumultuous years to follow in America.

The Deming Chain Reaction

The so-called Deming Chain Reaction was actually borrowed from a model that Walter Shewhart developed.  He probably borrowed the idea from another thinker.  Basically the idea was for management to move away from thinking about quality as a desirable outcome, to thinking about quality as a competitive strategy.