... Statistical process control When students of the Deming/Shewhart school and the orthodox school of mathematical statistics try to talk to each other about SPC (statistical process control), one big problem is that there may well be incompatibilities of perceived purpose, and therefore of use...

...Claire Hewson; Peter O’Sullivan; Keith Stenning Examines training needs associated with statistical process control (SPC), focusing on changes in organizational structure resulting from the implementation of SPC and associated changes in the knowledge and skills demanded of employees. Preliminary...

... dismissed as “just statistics” or even as no more than statistical process control. Another common false impression is that his philosophy is “summarized by the 14 Points”. And one of the few things to continue to irritate him until his death in December 1993 was any attempt to connect him with “TQM...