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- Jan. 03, 1994: Died:W. Edwards Deming
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 03, 1994 Men of The Year:The Peacemakers
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> DIED. W. EDWARDS DEMING, 93, American industrial-efficiency
- expert and guru of the postwar Japanese economic miracle; in
- Washington. Deming was a modern illustration of the biblical
- truth that a prophet is without honor in his own land. Educated
- in mathematics and physics, he worked with Bell Labs' Walter
- Shewhart during the 1930s developing quality-control theories
- that stressed achieving uniform results during production rather
- than through inspection at the end of the production line. During
- World War II Deming successfully applied his approach to the
- making of airplane parts. Ignored by postwar American industry,
- the irascible Deming took his gospel to Japan in 1950, where
- it was embraced. His ideas finally took root in the U.S. in
- the 1980s, when the Detroit auto industry asked for his help
- in competing with the very Japanese firms he had inspired.
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