ENTREPRENEURIAL OPERATIONS
QUALITY CONTROL
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United States
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Japan
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India
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Detailed explanation-1: -The War Department required industries making war materials to implement statistical controls, and hired statisticians to help teach them. One of the statisticians was Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who later helped foster the statistical quality movement in postwar Japan.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first to apply the newly discovered statistical methods to the problem of quality control was Walter A. Shewhart of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. He issued a memorandum on May 16, 1924 that featured a sketch of a modern control chart.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was in 1947 the Government of India formed the Indian Standards Institution which started work for quality control and standardization in industries. P C Mahalanobis learnt about the report on Statistical Quality Control submitted by Walter A Shewhart in 1924 to the President of Bell Telephone Laboratories.