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Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart"; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician. He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control and also related to the Shewhart cycle .
Shewhart, ASQ’s first Honorary member, successfully brought together the disciplines of statistics, engineering, and economics and became known as the father of modern quality control.
- His Background, Life and Work
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Walter A Shewhart was born in Illinois, USA in 1891, and his work still influences what we do today in Quality Improvement. He studied at University of Illinois and University of California, Berkeley and spent most of his career working as an engineer at Western Electric (from 1918 to 1924) and Bell Laboratories (from 1925 until his retirement in 1...
A number of Quality heroes were contemporaries of Walter Shewhart’s while he was at Bell Laboratories. Indeed, his manager was George D. Edwards, who went on to become the first president of the American Society for Quality Control(renamed in 1997 as the American Society for Quality). Walter also went on to mentor and influence and mentor W. Edward...
Walter Shewhart developed a critical insight that, while all processes exhibit variation, some variation is inherent to the specific process. From this thinking, he invented the Statistical Process Control (SPC) technique in 1924. The technique has been used across a range of industries ever since. He also invented the Control Chart – which is to t...
Walter Shewhart was hugely important in his contributions to process improvement, helping to reduce variation when SPC went mainstream. He was also instrumental in introducing SPC to post-war Japan. In 1931 he published ‘Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product’ – which you can still buy today! Let’s find out more about the techniques he...
The year 1924—at a factory in Cicero, Illinois—saw the start of two of the most important developments ever in managerial thinking. In May that year Walter Shewhart described the first control chart which launched statistical process control and quality improvement.
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Walter Andrew Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer and statistician who worked on statistical quality control.
Statistical process control was pioneered by Walter A. Shewhart at Bell Laboratories in the early 1920s. Shewhart developed the control chart in 1924 and the concept of a state of statistical control.
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May 16, 2024 · TODAY marks the centennial of one of the most significant innovations in quality management: the control chart. In the early 1920s, Walter A. Shewhart, working at Bell Labs, recognized the need for a statistical method to monitor and control manufacturing processes.
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