Road to Quality Control

N. I. Fisher is a Visiting Professor of Statistics at the University of Sydney, a management consultant, and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley journal Stat. Y. Tanaka is a Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Okayama University and involved in quality control as a member of the teaching and consulting staff of JSA (Japan Standard Association) seminar in Osaka. W. H. Woodall is a Professor of Statistics at Virginia Tech and a former editor of the Journal of Quality Technology (2001–2003) and Associate Editor of Technometrics (1987–1995).

• Foreword xiiiI Introduction 1Preface 1Step 1. Establishing the Quality Standard 3Step 2. Establishing a Section to Evaluate Quality 5Step 3. Establishing Inspection Standards 6Step 4. Selection of Inspection Methods 7Step 5. Investigation of the Current State of Quality 9Technical Terms Used in Quality Control 11II Probability and Statistical Inference 17Measures of Central Tendency 21Measure of Variability 24III Sampling Inspection 43Specifying an Acceptable Proportion of Defective Items 54IV Application of Sampling Inspection 63V Quality Control of the Production Process 75Appendix: Statistical Tables for Sampling Inspection 95SL Table-1.0, DL Table 5, SA Table-10.0, DA Table-1.0 (From “Sampling Inspection Tables” by Dodge, H.F. and Romig, H.G.)Thoughts on The Road to Quality Control – The Industrial Application of Statistical Quality Control by Homer M. Sarasohn 101W. H.WoodallIntroduction 101Quality Management 102Use of Acceptance Sampling 104Control Chart Methods 104Theory vs. Practice 105Some Other Books of the Era 106Conclusions 106References 107Homer Sarasohn and American Involvement in the Evolution of Quality Management in Japan, 1945–1950 109N.I. Fisher1 Introduction 1092 Events Prior to 1945 1102.1 Data 1103 1945–1947 1113.1 Data 1113.1.1 Civil Communications Section (CCS) activities 1113.1.2 Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) 1163.1.3 Visits to Japan byW. Edwards Deming 1163.2 Interpretation 1174 1948–1950 1174.1 Data 1174.1.1 CCS activities 1174.1.2 JUSE activities 1264.1.3 Deming’s activities 1274.2 Interpretation 1285 Conclusions 1346 Key Sources of Information 136Acknowledgements 136References 137Résumé 139Appendix: Notes on the Text 139