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Deming and His Fourteen Suggestions...

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W. Edwards Deming From Wikipedia, "William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant." from Wikipedia: W. Edwards Deming Years ago, again, when I worked in a petrochemical plant, and before Deming died, the Company decided to use Deming's methods to promote substantial improvements in the Company processes. As I recall, Deming had fourteen points. As a young engineer I was eager to study the methods of this great man, methods that after WWII transformed Japan into a manufacturing dynamo. We even watched some live video feeds of Deming promoting his methods. He was quite the curmudgeon. Now the thing about Deming's 14 points is that they are a package deal. Each point is part of a system composed of all 14 points. Think of a system as a cow. Now you can take a leg off a cow and you no longer have a complete cow. That's what a system is all about. Cut a cow in half and