Engineers, statisticians and managers who built the quality movement and its relatives, including statistical quality control, total quality management, the Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, the theory of constraints and business process reengineering. A person belongs here when the cited article ties them to quality or process improvement. It excludes strategy and behavioral theorists. The figures here worked on lowering defects, waste and delay in factories and offices, and several of them shaped Japanese industry after the Second World War.
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Wikipedia, Taiichi Ohno
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He is considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System, which inspired Lean Manufacturing in the U.S.
Wikipedia, Bill Smith (Motorola engineer)
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Smith, Jr. (1929-1993) was the "father of Six Sigma".
Wikipedia, W. Edwards Deming
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He is also known as the father of the quality movement, known as "Lean manufacturing" today, and was hugely influential in post-WWII Japan, credited with revolutionizing Japan's industry and making it one of the most dominant economies in the world.
Wikipedia, Walter A. Shewhart
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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.
Wikipedia, Michael Martin Hammer
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Champy founded the management theory of business process reengineering (BPR), which they presented in their best-selling Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution in 1993.
Wikipedia, Kaoru Ishikawa
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Kaoru Ishikawa (石川 馨, Ishikawa Kaoru; July 13, 1915, April 16, 1989) was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo who was noted for his quality management innovations.
Wikipedia, Joseph M. Juran
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He was an advocate for quality and quality management and wrote several books on the topics.
Wikipedia, Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and other TOC derived tools.
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