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Quality Gurus and Their Contribution

This document discusses the contributions of several quality gurus to the field of quality management. It describes how Walter Shewhart developed statistical quality control charts and influenced Deming's work. It outlines Edward Deming's role in implementing statistical process control in Japan after WWII and his development of the PDCA/PDSA quality cycle. Additionally, it notes Kaoru Ishikawa's creation of cause-and-effect diagrams and his role in developing quality circles.

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Quality Gurus and Their Contribution

This document discusses the contributions of several quality gurus to the field of quality management. It describes how Walter Shewhart developed statistical quality control charts and influenced Deming's work. It outlines Edward Deming's role in implementing statistical process control in Japan after WWII and his development of the PDCA/PDSA quality cycle. Additionally, it notes Kaoru Ishikawa's creation of cause-and-effect diagrams and his role in developing quality circles.

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Quality Gurus
&
their contribution

 Walter Shewhart
 Edward Demings
 Philip Crosby
 Joseph Juran
 Armand Feigenbaum
 Kaoru Ishikawa
 Genichi Taguchi
 Shigeo Shingo
 James Harrington

Contribution of Walter Shewhart

 Grandfather of quality control


 Used statistics to explain process
variability
 Deming made PDSA cycle for his work
 Developed statistical quality charts

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Contribution of Edward Deming

 Greatest influence on quality control


 Father of Quality Control
 Implemented statistical quality control
in Japan post WW2
 Reduce uncertainty & variability
 If Japan can: why can’t we was
broadcast for him
 Associated with Japanese union of
scientist & engineers (JUSE)
 Stressed management responsibility
 Contributed to TQM  14 Points of TQM
 PDCA/PDSA quality cycles  7 deadly sins of management
 Deming prize in quality in Japan  System of Profound knowledge

Contribution of Kaoru Ishikawa

 Cause effect diagram (fishbone


diagram)
 Wrote book “Guide to Quality
Control”
 Wrote book “What Is Total Quality
Control”
 Father of the Quality Circle
Movement
 Quality Circle
 Problem solving methodology
 Concept of “Internal customer”

Contribution of Joseph Juran

 Quality defined as “Fitness for use”


 Quality Trilogy
 Quality Planning Roadmap
 “Little Q” & “Big Q” concept of quality
 Developed concept of “cost of
quality”
 Stresses management methods

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Contribution of Shigeo Shingo

 Consultant for Toyota


 Achieved Toyota production system
 Poka Yoke system (avoiding errors) &
Single minute exchange dies
 Shingo prize awarded for excellence in
manufacturing
 Concept of source inspection
 Mistake proofing, stop mistakes repeating
 Reduce changeover time
 Just in Time system with Taiichi Ohno

Contribution of Philip Crosby


 Wrote book “Quality is Free”
 Absolutes of Quality Management,
 Zero Defects, Do it right the first time
 Quality Management Maturity Grid,
 14 Quality Improvement Steps,
 Cost of Quality, Cost of Nonconformance
 Wrote “Quality Without Tears”
 "Quality is conformance to requirements;
non-quality is nonconformance."
 4 Absolutes of quality management

Contribution of Anmand Feigenbaum


 Total Quality Control
 He used statistical techniques
 Was founding chairman of the
International Academy for Quality
 Quality as a “Total Field” customer
 Customer defined quality

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Contribution of Genichi Taguchi


 Father of Scientific Management
 Indian Statistical Institute visiting
professor
 “Design of experiment” methods,
orthogonal array
 Robust design in the area of product
development, offline quality control
 The noise factors (environmental variation
during the product's usage, manufacturing
variation)
 Flexible system designs and concurrent
engineering, Tolerance design
 Loss function, loss due to poor quality

Contribution of Frederick Taylor


 Father of scientific management
 Principle of scientific management
 Divide entire work in small elements
 Select, train & teach workers scientifically
 Division of labour
 Piece rate incentive system
 Time & motion study
 Improvement in industrial efficiency

Contribution of James Harrington


 Process Improvement
 Worked with IBM
 Served as president and chairman of the American Society
for Quality
 Quality profit connection
 High performance Benchmarking

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Q 1 Which of the following Quality Guru is credited with concept of “quality control charts”
a) Edward Deming b) Ishikawa
c) Shewhart d) Taylor
Ans c) Shewhart used quality control charts to analyse the data for quality control purposes.

Q 2 Which of the following Quality Guru is credited with concept of “quality circles”
a) Edward Deming b) Ishikawa c) Shewhart d) Taylor
Ans b) Ishikawa is known as father of quality circle movement

Q 3 Which of the following Quality Guru is credited with concept of “quality cycle”
a) Edward Deming b) Ishikawa c) Shewhart d) Taylor
Ans a) Edward Deming popularized the concept of PDCA & PDSA quality cycle

Q4 Which of the following Quality Guru is credited with concept of “Total quality control”
a) Edward Deming b) Ishikawa c) Shewhart d) Feigenbaum
Ans d) Feigenbaum popularized concept of Total quality control

Q5 Which of the following scholar is associated with principle of scientific management?


a) Edward Deming b) Ishikawa c) Shewhart d) Taylor
Ans d) Taylor preached principle of scientific management to bring efficiency in the system

Q6 Poka Yoke is Japanese word which simple means


a) Concurrent Engineering b) Zero defect c) Maximum quality d) Avoiding error
Ans d) Poka Yoke means avoiding error & this concept was provided by Shigeo Shingo

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