Being an expert on statistical methods, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE), having heard of Shewhart’s techniques, invited Deming to lecture on statistical quality control.

Statistical process control (SPC) is quantitative problem solving consisting of both the diagnostic techniques for identifying problems in a process and the prescriptive techniques for solving these ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 18, No. 1 (1969), pp. 1-30 (30 pages) Existing cusum methods are reviewed, and their relevance to quality control problems ...

BEFORE the War, quality control methods of the statistical type were to be found in comparatively few industries. The War itself saw them introduced, frequently under Government auspices, into a ...