Walter A. Shewhart

Works

• Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product, 1931
• Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control (edited by W. Edwards Deming), 1939

In Thinking Tools

Known for

A Bell Telephone Laboratories physicist and statistician, called the grandfather of statistical quality control, who sketched the control chart in a 1924 memo to separate common-cause variation from assignable causes, and who drew specification, production, and inspection as a cycle that Deming later called the Shewhart cycle.

Tools that draw on Walter A. Shewhart (4)

• Anomaly Detection
• Control Chart
• Experimental Innovation Cycle
• PDCA Cycle