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    William Edwards Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer and management consultant. He is best known for his work in Japan helping rebuild its industry after World War II. Deming is famous for developing the Deming Cycle, also known as the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle. The cycle involves planning a change, implementing it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned to continuously improve processes and products. Deming helped Japanese companies apply statistical methods to improve quality and gain a competitive advantage in global markets. He emphasized the importance of quality improvement through systems thinking and reduction of variation and defects.

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    William Edwards Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer and management consultant. He is best known for his work in Japan helping rebuild its industry after World War II. Deming is famous for developing the Deming Cycle, also known as the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle. The cycle involves planning a change, implementing it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned to continuously improve processes and products. Deming helped Japanese companies apply statistical methods to improve quality and gain a competitive advantage in global markets. He emphasized the importance of quality improvement through systems thinking and reduction of variation and defects.

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    William Edwards Deming

    The life of William E. Deming


    &
    The Deming Cycle
    Outline
    1. William Edwards Deming
    The Person
    His Life
    2. The Deming Cycle
    What is the Deming Cycle
    How it works
    1. William Edwards Deming
    • Born the 14-10-1900 in Sioux City, Iowa
    • Father: William Albert Deming
    • Mother: Pluma Irene Edwards
    • Raised in Polk City, Iowa. Then in Powel, Wyoming
    • 1917: he moves to Laramie to enroll the University of
    Wyoming
    • 1921: Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
    • 1922: teaches in a mine in Colorado
    • 1923: He marries Agnes Bell
    • 1924: He works in the Western Electric
    • 1925: He receives a Master of Sciences from the
    University of Colorado
    • 1927: He starts working for the United States
    Department of Agriculture
    • 1928: He doctorates in physics in the University of Yale
    • 1930: Agnes dies
    • 1932: Marries Lola Elizabeth Shape
    • 1939: Member of the five-man Emergency Technical
    Committee
    • 1947: Helps in the planning of Japanese census
    • 1950: He teaches hundred of engineers in SPC. JUSE's
    board of directors established the Deming Prize
    • 1980: “If Japan can… Why can’t we?”
    • 1982: MIT publishes “Quality, Productivity, and
    Competitive Position”
    • 1986: FORD became the most profitable car company in
    the US
    • 1993: he died, he was 93 years old
    2. The Deming Cycle
    PDCA – Cycle
    Plan

    • identifying problems
    • required changes
    • important results

     Ideas for solving the problems


    Do
    • implement the plan, changes
    • measure the performance
    Check
    • check the achieved results
    • assess the measurements
    • anaylze the results
    Act

     defining standards
     implementing changes

     start again with the PDCA Cycle


    Thank you
    for your attention!
    Sources
    Google books
    Evans James R./ Lindsay, William M.
    The Management & Control of Quality, 7. Edition, Thomson South-Western, 2008
    TSO
    Release, Control and Validation, 1.Edition, The Stationary Office, 2009
    Köster, Dieter
    Marketing und Prozessgestaltung, 1.Auflage, Gabler, Wiesbaden

    Other sources
    Eissler, Ralf
    Qualitätsmanagement, 1.Auflage, Konstanz
    http://www.balancedscorecard.org/thedemingcycle/tabid/112/default.aspx

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