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the beginning of modern quality management...
Before Six Sigma, TQM, SPC & Deming, there was Shewhart.This classic work by Dr. Shewhart introduces the principles that were to become the foundation for process quality control.While not as concise as his later "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control," this text provides a more in-depth introduction to basic statistical control concepts...very good for understanding the thinking behind Shewhart control charts. ... Read more

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Important text offers lucid explanation of how to regulate variables and maintain control over statistics in order to achieve quality control over manufactured products, crops and data. Topics include statistical control, establishing limits of variability, measurements of physical properties and constants, and specification of accuracy and precision. First inexpensive paperback edition.
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Genius can be hard work
A Classic of its time, many managers today are not aware of the genius of Shewhart. In fact Deming himself attributes most of his ideas to Shewhart. There are many Management Gurus today who pay scant regard to the contributions of Shewhart and pass off their work as original but on closer examination you will find the mind of Shewhart once you remove the modern spin.

Excellent method and logical thinking. Its worth persisting with the old fashioned language to get the true voice of the genius.

Its about time this man received the recognition he deserves.

Not for the non statistician
I picked up this book because I've been recently delving into the works of W. Edward Deming. I find it incredible that his works aren't taught in school, but I also as a previous reviewer has stated, this book is not for the statistical beginner or even intermediate.I do have a college degree and consider myself intelligent and stronger than average in math, but this is not an easy book to understand.

Oof!
This may be the most inaccesible management book I've ever read.I picked it because of Shewart's exalted position in the quality movement - as the mentor and intellectual guide to Deming, he is the theorist behind the quality of our cars, VCRs and televisions.

Unfortunately, his writing is enormously hard to read and apply.The mathematics were very hard to penetrate - dozens of pages to even get to basing control charts on standard deviations.I've got a minor in mathematics, so I was suprised by the difficulty.It was near impossible to derive quality lessons from the book.

In deference to the author, I'll make a lot of excuses for him:
- It was written a long time ago.
- The book was aimed at statisticians, not managers.
- A compilation of Shewart's ideas would be more effective than lecture notes.

My end recommendation - browse before you buy.

Timess Shewhart
This book is the culmination of the philosophy of Dr. Shewhart . Dr. Shewhart was virtually unknown till he delivered a series of lectures which were then edited and converted into this book by W. Edwards Deming . Dr. Deming recognised the importance of these lectures and felt that this would be the best way to popularise Shewhart's works . Shewhart's earlier book " Economic Control of Quality in Manufactured Product " was the second recorded book on Quality ( 1931 ) . His concepts of the " old Way " and " New Way " of doing businesses are relevant even today . Shewhart touched on topics which Management gurus refer to even today . This book first introduced the " Scientific Method of Improvement " which we now know as the Shewhart - Deming PDSA cycle for improvement . All in all a timeless piece of writing and a must for every Quality / Management fanatic. ... Read more

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Chapters: W. Edwards Deming, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Joseph M. Juran, Walter A. Shewhart, Thomas Usher, Kenneth Hopper, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr., Myron Tribus, Gregory Balestrero, Paul Palmieri, C. Bertrand Thompson, Carl Georg Barth, Robert H. Roy, Asa S. Knowles, Richard Muther, A. Ernest Fitzgerald, Alphonse Chapanis, M. M. Ayoub, Charles R. Cutler, Stuart Dreyfus, Robert Davol Budlong. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during the Cold War, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the last through global markets) through various methods, including the application of statistical methods. Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's later reputation for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage. Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only just beginning to win widespread recognition in the U.S. at the time of his death. Dr. Deming's teachings and philosophy can be seen through the results they produced when they were adopted by Japanese industry, as the following example shows: Ford Motor Company was simultaneously manufacturing a car model with transmissions made in Japan and the United States. Soon after the car model was on the market, Ford customers were requesting the model with Japanese transmi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=70534 ... Read more

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Chapters: W. Edwards Deming, Dorian Shainin, Joseph M. Juran, Walter A. Shewhart, Kenneth Hopper, Genichi Taguchi, Philip B. Crosby, Kaoru Ishikawa, John Seddon, C. Jackson Grayson, Shigeo Shingo, Noriaki Kano, Armand V. Feigenbaum, Watts Humphrey, Industrial Change in Occupied Japan, Juran Institute, Taiichi Ohno, Bill Smith, Harold F. Dodge, Yoji Akao, Donald J. Wheeler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during the Cold War, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the last through global markets) through various methods, including the application of statistical methods. Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's later reputation for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage. Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only just beginning to win widespread recognition in the U.S. at the time of his death. Dr. Deming's teachings and philosophy can be seen through the results they produced when they were adopted by Japanese industry, as the following example shows: Ford Motor Company was simultaneously manufacturing a car model with transmissions made in Japan and the United States. Soon after the car model was on the market, Ford customers were requesting the model with Japanese transmission over the USA-made transmission, and they...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=70534 ... Read more

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Chapters: Francis Amasa Walker, Irving Fisher, Walter A. Shewhart, Charles P. Neill, Simon Kuznets, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Raymond Pearl, Alfred J. Lotka, George E. P. Box, Frederick Mosteller, W. Allen Wallis, Allyn Abbott Young, Louis Israel Dublin, Bradley Efron, Gertrude Mary Cox, William Kruskal, President of the American Statistical Association, Leslie Kish, Carroll D. Wright, Samuel S. Wilks, William Fielding Ogburn, Churchill Eisenhart, Leonard Porter Ayres, George W. Snedecor, Morris H. Hansen, William Gemmell Cochran, Arnold Zellner, Robert H. Coats, Edwin Bidwell Wilson, Jerome Cornfield, Carl Snyder, Donald Marquardt, Ronald L. Iman, Walter Francis Willcox, Lester Frankel, Joseph Adna Hill, Warren Randolph Burgess, Willard Thorp, A. Ross Eckler, Herman Otto Hartley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 January 5, 1897) was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and military officer in the Union Army. Walker was born into a prominent Boston family, the son of the economist and politician Amasa Walker, and he graduated from Amherst College at the age of 20. He received a commission to join the 15th Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers and quickly rose through the ranks as an assistant adjutant general. Walker fought in the Peninsula Campaign and was injured at the Battle of Chancellorsville but subsequently participated in the Bristoe, Overland, and Richmond-Petersburg Campaigns before being captured by Confederate forces and held at the infamous Libby Prison. After his release, he was promoted to the rank of brevet brigadier general at the age of 24. Following the war, Walker served on the editorial staff of the Springfield Republican before using his family ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1564918 ... Read more

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Chapters: W. Edwards Deming, Persi Diaconis, John Tukey, Walter A. Shewhart, Oscar Kempthorne, Joseph Leo Doob, Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, R. C. Bose, William Feller, George E. P. Box, Frederick Mosteller, Abraham Wald, Bernard Silverman, Donald Burkholder, Jack Kiefer, Harold Hotelling, Jerzy Neyman, Bradley Efron, Stephen Stigler, William Kruskal, Herbert Robbins, Mark Kac, President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Samuel S. Wilks, Lucien le Cam, Stephen Fienberg, Jacob Wolfowitz, Morris H. Hansen, William Gemmell Cochran, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Louis Chen Hsiao Yun, Terry Speed, Wassily Hoeffding, Herman Chernoff, Elizabeth Scott, Ted Harris, J. Michael Steele, Theodore Wilbur Anderson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 142. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during the Cold War, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the last through global markets) through various methods, including the application of statistical methods. Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's later reputation for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage. Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only just beginning to win widespread recognition in the U.S. at the time of his death. Dr. Deming's teachings and philosophy can be seen through the results they produced when they w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=70534 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Blaise Pascal, William Petty, Florence Nightingale, Pafnouti Tchebychev, William Edwards Deming, Leslie Kish, Walter A. Shewhart, Corrado Gini, Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès, Michel Volle, John Tukey, Adolphe Quetelet, Gregory King, Francis Galton, Lamine Diop, Abraham de Moivre, Julien Amegandjin, Awa Thiongane, Arthur Schuster, Serigne Lamine Diop, Salem Hanna Khamis, Joseph Leo Doob, François Yattien Amiguet, Michel Mouyelo-Katoula, Diassé Serigne Touba, Cyril Goungounga, Irénée-Jules Bienaymé, Yves Franchet, Maurice Block, Louis-François Benoiston de Châteauneuf, Harold Jeffreys, Christophe Terrier, Karl Pearson, Abraham Wald, Jerzy Neyman, Maurice René Fréchet, Colin Clark, Joseph Klatzmann, Piotr Semionov-Tian-Chanski, Alexander Aitken, Philippe Lazar, Vladimir Vapnik, Richard Doll, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Thomas Bayes, Alfred de Foville, Liste de Statisticiens, Waloddi Weibull, Gerd Bosbach, Alain Desrosières, Alfred Legoyt, Vassili Vassilievitch Zverinski, Edmond Théry, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Francesco Paolo Cantelli, Armand Husson, Robert Abelson, Edward Tufte, Daniel Schwartz, Jacques Bertillon, Armand Vallin Feigenbaum, Carl Charlier, Egon Sharpe Pearson, Alfred James Lotka, William Gosset, John Graunt, George Kingsley Zipf, William Farr, Jean-Paul Benzécri, Fredrik Rosing Bull, George Gallup, Leonard Savage, Alexey Chervonenkis, Étienne Laspeyres, D. G. Champernowne, Pierre Philippe Urbain Thomas, Genichi Taguchi, Émil Julius Gumbel, Eugen Slutsky, Vladimir Smirnov, Robert Bourbeau, George Udny Yule, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Harald Cramér, Joseph Kitchin, Edward Jones, Herman Wold, Hermann Paasche, Nate Silver. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Blaise Pascal, né le 19 juin 1623 à Clairmont (au...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Michel Saloff-Coste, Walter A. Shewhart, Anthony Robbins, Joseph Juran, François de Callières, Charles Bedaux, Edward de Bono, Christian Harbulot, Philippe Lukacs, Jean-Marie Peretti, Max Depree, Lionel Honoré, Bernhard Kitous, Émile Belot, Henri Kaufman, Daniel Goleman, Georges Doriot, François Daniellou, Gilles Teneau, Antoine Laville, Armand Vallin Feigenbaum, John Kotter, Geoffrey Moore, Ned Herrmann, Shelby D. Hunt, Alain Lancry, Ève Chiapello, Maurice de Montmollin, Alain Fernandez, Damien Bruté de Rémur, Jean-Luc Cerdin, Lynda Gratton, John Adair. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Michel Saloff-Coste est né en 1955 à Paris. Il réalise ses études secondaires à Saint Martin de France et ses études supérieures à l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts dans l'atelier de Gustave Singier. Parallèlement, il étudie la philosophie à l'Université de Vincennes avec Gilles Deleuze. Peintre, photographe, cinéaste, écrivain, enseignant et consultant, Michel Saloff Coste est particulièrement connu pour ses recherches, conférences et livres sur les enjeux du passage de la "Société Industrielle" à la "Société de l'Information" . Il s'est attaché à expliquer les grands vecteurs de transformation qui métamorphosent notre civilisation et a focalisé sa recherche sur la manière dont les évolutions technologiques, économiques, sociologiques et écologiques, influencent les entreprises et transforment les structures, les systèmes, la culture et le management des organisations. Dans le cadre de ces recherches il a été amené à s'intéresser à la transdisciplinarité, la théorie des systèmes, la systémique, la prospective, la sociologie, la psychologie et la philosophie intégrale. Il explique et tente de démontrer...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more