Walter A. Shewhart

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Walter A. Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer, and statistician regarded as a pioneer of statistical quality control and modern quality management.

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instanceOf engineer
person
physicist
pioneer of modern quality management
pioneer of statistical quality control
statistician
areaOfInfluence industrial quality control worldwide
associatedWith Bell System quality improvement
early development of control charts for telephone transmission
contributedTo application of statistics to industrial processes
development of quality control in manufacturing
foundations of continuous improvement
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
employer Bell Telephone Laboratories NERFINISHED
Western Electric Company NERFINISHED
familyName Shewhart NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork industrial engineering
physics
quality control
statistics
givenName Walter
hasConcept assignable cause
chance cause
common cause variation
control limits
process stability
special cause variation
statistical process control cycle
influenced Joseph M. Juran NERFINISHED
W. Edwards Deming NERFINISHED
modern quality management practices
influencedBy statistical theory of the early 20th century
knownFor developing control charts
founding statistical quality control
influencing modern quality management
languageOfWorkOrName English
legacy core methods used in Six Sigma and quality management systems
foundation of modern statistical quality control
name Walter A. Shewhart NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableWork Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product NERFINISHED
Shewhart control chart NERFINISHED
statistical process control
occupation engineer
physicist
statistician

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