American physicist, engineer and statistician sometimes called the grandfather of statistical quality control. Working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1920s, he invented the Shewhart control chart and the Shewhart cycle, the iterative plan-do-check-act method W. Edwards Deming later modified and popularized. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceNew Canton, Illinois, United States 1 Death PlaceTroy Hills, New Jersey, United States 1 Defining ContributionOriginated the Shewhart cycle at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1920s, the iterative plan-do-check-act method for process control that Deming later modified. 2 Connections
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Source Wikipedia, Walter A. Shewhart
Shewhart mentored Deming in statistical process control at Bell Labs and the USDA Graduate School; Deming built his own quality-management work directly on Shewhart's methods.
Source Wikipedia, W. Edwards Deming
Theories and Models Developed
Originated the cycle; Deming modified it in the 1940s into the form used today (see the associated-with edge to Deming).
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He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control, inventor of the Shewhart chart and the Shewhart cycle.
- Associated With: Telecommunications Equipment Industry
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originated with physicist Walter Shewhart at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1920s
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