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. Eli Whitney was a blacksmith who surprised his neighbours and family by enrolling in Yale. He was unable to get work in his native north and headed south [...]

Systems and Improvement

Dr. W. E. Deming was fond of saying in his seminars, “This diagram was on the wall in Japan.”  Deming, an esteemed statistician who is perhaps best known for his work in Japan, later made systems thinking one of the four parts of what he call the System of Profound Knowledge, profound, he said, because [...]

Inspection

Hi-cost conformity