Dr. Walter Shewhart
”G
Shewhart Medal
Awarded For Outstanding technical leadership
in the field of modern quality
control
Presented By American Society for Quality
Country USA
First Awarded 1948
Official Website http://www.asq.org/about-
asq/awards/shewhart.html
PDCA Cycle
Achievements And Honours
Kaoru Ishikawa
Mazda Motor
W. Edwards Deming
Lack of
constancy
of purpose
Mobility of
management
Emphasis
on short-
term profits
Excessive
medical
costs
Management
by use of
visible
figures
Performance
appraisals
Excessive
costs of
liability
SEVEN
DISEASES
• Create constancy of purpose towards improvement of product
and service.
• Adopt the new philosophy.
• Cease dependence on mass inspection.
• End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price.
• Continuously improve the system of production and service.
• Institute modern methods of training on the job.
• Institute modern methods of leadership of production workers.
• Drive out fear.
• Break down barriers between departments.
• Eliminate slogans aimed solely at the work force.
• Eliminate work, standards that prescribe numerical quotas.
• Remove barriers that hinder workers
• Institute a vigorous program of education and retraining.
• Take action to accomplish the transformation
Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda
President (1982-1999) of Toyota
“Every day I think about what he meant to us. Deming is the core of
our management.”
Philip Crosby
PHILIP CROSBY ASSOCIATES,Inc.
Bill Smith
Motorola company
AWARD
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
to Motorola
Shigeo Shingo
Implementation in manufacturing
•Contact method
•Fixed-value (or constant number)
method
•Motion-step (or sequence) method
Implementation in Service Industries
Meaning
Implemented in Toyota
Production System
Taiichi Ohno
“
Continuous process flow
Use the "pull" system
Build a culture
Standardized tasks
Visual control
Reliable, thoroughly tested technology
Dr. Joseph M. Juran
The Quality Trilogy
Quality Planning
Quality
Improvement
Quality Control
Yosio Kondo
socialitycreativityphysical activity
Nikkei press quality control literature prize
Individual Deming prize from JUSE
The science award from the American institute of mining
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