Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place. — Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s third point for ...

CHEYENNE -- W. Edwards Deming was a quality control guru who revolutionized the Japanese auto industry after World War II and later used his same management model for the U.S. auto industry. He was ...

As the last few months have progressed and my relationship with Chuck Holland has grown, we have enjoyed exchanging experiences at the Y-12 plant over the years. I well remember Chuck in staff ...

Toyota Motor Corp., in many ways the quintessential Japanese corporation, owes at least some of its gleaming quality reputation to an American, the late W. Edwards Deming, who in the 1960s helped set ...

On June 24, 1980, NBC News released a 90-minute white paper titled “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” It looked closely at a growing productivity gap between the two nations and a sharp contrast in the ...

As part of its anniversary celebration, BusinessWeek is presenting a series of weekly profiles for the greatest innovators of the past 75 years. Some made their mark in science or technology; others ...

American statistician W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993) at the Hotel new Japan, where he presented the Deming Application Prize, for quality management, to the Nissan Motor Company, Tokyo, Japan, 1960.