1. Introduction
Dr. W. Edwards Deming
He was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, consultant and also known as the father of the Japanese post-war industrial revival and was regarded by many as the leading quality guru in the United States. Trained as a statistician, his expertise was used during World War II to assist the United States in its effort to improve the quality of war materials. He was invited to Japan at the end of World War II by Japanese industrial leaders and engineers to produced cheap, shoddy imitations to one of producing innovative quality products. He changed our lives by developing better ways for people to work together, derived his first philosophy and method that allows individuals and organizations. Deming was educated in engineering and physics and became an early student of statistics, the theory of knowledge and systems thinking. He eventually integrated the disciplines of statistical thinking, how people learn, systems thinking and psychology into his theory of profound knowledge, which allows leaders and managers to see a dynamic, complex social system in new ways, predict its performance, and continually improve it in a rapidly changing world. Using his ideas to eliminate cross purposes, teams and organizations can produce greater wholes more than any of the individual parts or people added together. He bore October 14, 1900, in Sioux City, Iowa, the oldest son of Pluma Irene and William Albert Deming. When he was young, his family moved to Wyoming, where Deming graduated from high school in 1917. In 1921 he received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming at Laramiean. In 1925 an Master of Science. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and in 1928 a Ph.D. from Yale ...