Works
- Guide to Quality Control, JUSE; English edition from the Asian Productivity Organization, 1968
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A University of Tokyo engineering professor and leader of the Japanese quality movement, known for quality circles and for the cause-and-effect diagram that bears his name, also called the fishbone diagram, which he used in quality work at Kawasaki.
Caveat: The basic idea of a cause-and-effect diagram predates his publications; he popularized it from the 1960s.