Hopper further notes that a lecture series on statistical quality control by W . Edwards Deming ( also in 1950 ) and the work of Joseph J . Juran were also vital elements of what came to be known as the Japanese economic miracle.
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In statistical quality control, the "'u-chart "'is a type of control chart used to monitor " count "-type data where the sample size is greater than one, typically the average number of nonconformities per unit.
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In 1950, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratory ( ECL ) of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation just as statistical quality control was beginning to become popular in Japan, under the influence of W . Edwards Deming and the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers.
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The designation arose in postwar Japan, inspired by the seven famous weapons of statistical quality control found that the complexity of the subject intimidated the vast majority of their workers and scaled back training to focus primarily on simpler methods which suffice for most quality-related issues.
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Once World War II commenced, Kathleen Culhane Lathbury offered her assistance to the war effort in 1939 . She was first assigned to the position of an assistant wages clerk, but eventually, was appointed manager of a statistical quality control department at a Royal Ordnance Factory.
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The impact of mass production required during the Second World War made it necessary to introduce an improved form of quality control known as Statistical Quality Control, or SQC . Some of the initial work for SQC is credited to Walter A . Shewhart of Bell Labs, starting with his famous one-page memorandum of 1924 ..
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On 10 November 1922 the TIA reformed as the Institution of Engineering Inspection, so it could be open to industrial inspectors, as well as to inspectors employed by the UK government . In 1929 the institute's branch network was formed, with local groups meeting all over the UK . Throughout the 1930s the profession developed further with the discovery of statistical quality control and in the 1940s the progression to'quality control'rather than simple inspection.
