

Finally, Ford engineers decided to take apart the two different transmissions. As both transmissions were made to the same specifications, Ford engineers could not understand the customer preference for the model with Japanese transmissions.

1950), Ford customers were requesting the model with Japanese transmissions over the US-made transmissions, and they were willing to wait for the Japanese model. Soon after the car model was on the market (c. Ford Motor Company was simultaneously manufacturing a car model with transmissions made in Japan (by Mazda) and the United States (by Ford). The aim of the institute is to "Enrich society through the Deming philosophy." ĭeming's teachings and philosophy are clearly illustrated by examining the results they produced after they were adopted by Japanese industry, as the following example (called the Ford-Mazda study) shows. Library of Congress includes an extensive audiotape and videotape archive. Edwards Deming Institute in Washington, DC, where the Deming Collection at the U.S. Deming played the flute and drums and composed music throughout his life, including sacred choral compositions and an arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner. Later, he became a professor at New York University, while engaged as an independent consultant in Washington, DC.ĭeming was the author of Quality Productivity and Competitive Position, Out of the Crisis (1982–1986), and The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993), and books on statistics and sampling. During this visit, he was contacted by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) to talk directly to Japanese business leaders, not about SPC, but about his theories of management, returning to Japan for many years to consult. Douglas MacArthur as a census consultant to the Japanese government, he was asked to teach a short seminar on statistical process control (SPC) methods to members of the Radio Corps, at the invitation of Homer Sarasohn. Department of Agriculture and the Census Department. He had an internship at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works in Cicero, Illinois, while studying at Yale. Both graduate degrees were in mathematics and physics. 5.1 The Deming System of Profound Knowledgeĭeming received a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming at Laramie (1921), an MS from the University of Colorado (1925), and a PhD from Yale University (1928).
